freeaudioeditor.exe

Free Audio Editor 2015

TechEvolve GMBH

The application freeaudioeditor.exe, “Free Audio Editor 2015 Setup ” by TechEvolve GMBH has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 9 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the Inno Setup installer. The installer uses the OpenCandy monitzation platform which will donwload and install offers in the setup for potentially unwanted software including ad/search-supported toolbars. The file has been seen being downloaded from cdn.goodfolderscentres.com and multiple other hosts.
Publisher:
Copyright© 2005-2015 FAEMedia, Inc.   (signed by TechEvolve GMBH)

Product:
Free Audio Editor 2015

Description:
Free Audio Editor 2015 Setup

MD5:
ff3019ddf0fdacb55ff2e76f5059abb4

SHA-1:
5441b4bb94b70268ec21ce3d66ab7c837519fcea

SHA-256:
228da16cc6b94f34a2b9da6009a637dd79d7f5ef7fd8f4a80ae08e24f4e92e51

Scanner detections:
9 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Explanation:
Packages the OpenCandy software bundler that offers to install additional software and may include web browser add-ons and toolbars which display advertising (based on publisher settings and geo context).

Analysis date:
11/15/2024 10:45:28 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Bkav FE
W32.HfsAdware
1.3.0.6979

Dr.Web
Trojan.InstallCore.280
9.0.1.0187

ESET NOD32
Win32/OpenCandy.C potentially unsafe (variant)
9.11289

Fortinet FortiGate
Riskware/OpenCandy
7/6/2015

McAfee
Artemis!5CF2169E6DD0
5600.6712

Norman
InstallCore.CERT
11.20150706

Reason Heuristics
Win32.Generic.TechEvolveGMBH.Installer.Meta
15.7.6.14

Trend Micro House Call
Suspicious_GEN.F47V0306
7.2.187

VIPRE Antivirus
InstallCore
41476

File size:
15.4 MB (16,128,384 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
Inno Setup

Language:
Language Neutral

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\freeaudioeditor.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
12/16/2012 1:00:00 AM

Valid to:
12/17/2015 12:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=TechEvolve GMBH, OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O=TechEvolve GMBH, L=Beijing, S=Beijing, C=CN

Issuer:
CN=VeriSign Class 3 Code Signing 2010 CA, OU=Terms of use at https://www.verisign.com/rpa (c)10, OU=VeriSign Trust Network, O="VeriSign, Inc.", C=US

Serial number:
50FF3D5C361AE9F52E4B0A3CF576C6EE

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
6/20/1992 12:22:17 AM

OS version:
1.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.25

CTPH (ssdeep):
393216:U0lF+okILRs90QCCFPZSu/Awua1gr8y1zArL2a:UWFxkILRsmQCCLJowSrTArL

Entry address:
0xA5F8

Entry point:
55, 8B, EC, 83, C4, C4, 53, 56, 57, 33, C0, 89, 45, F0, 89, 45, DC, E8, CE, 8A, FF, FF, E8, D5, 9C, FF, FF, E8, 64, 9F, FF, FF, E8, 07, A0, FF, FF, E8, A6, BF, FF, FF, E8, 11, E9, FF, FF, E8, 78, EA, FF, FF, 33, C0, 55, 68, C9, AC, 40, 00, 64, FF, 30, 64, 89, 20, 33, D2, 55, 68, 92, AC, 40, 00, 64, FF, 32, 64, 89, 22, A1, 14, C0, 40, 00, E8, 26, F5, FF, FF, E8, 11, F1, FF, FF, 80, 3D, 34, B2, 40, 00, 00, 74, 0C, E8, 23, F6, FF, FF, 33, C0, E8, C4, 97, FF, FF, 8D, 55, F0, 33, C0, E8, B6, C5, FF, FF, 8B, 55...
 
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Entropy:
7.9998

Packer / compiler:
Inno Setup v5.x - Installer Maker

Code size:
39.5 KB (40,448 bytes)

The file freeaudioeditor.exe has been seen being distributed by the following 7 URLs.

http://cdn.goodfolderscentres.com/c?x=uDi10OJphkMgkhpnABj48R3jM5AVGmgHgVWILxNb8/g=&c=zVRKnXKTXDbrDn soTEUijkzeq5UDWKJwQgaK/mqZ63xKmCADXwgAVNqW2TRslvYVIBRUzyJ5Oybcx8A/ax5UA==&downloadAs=FreeAudioEditor.exe&fallback_url=http://www.tsinginc.com/free-audio-editor.com/.../FreeAudioEditor_IS.exe

http://www.free-audio-editor.com/FreeAudioEditor.exe

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