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freepdfreading.exe

Honlyn (Macao Commercial Offshore) Limited

The application freepdfreading.exe by Honlyn (Macao Commercial Offshore) Limited has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. The program is a setup application that uses the NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) installer. The file has been seen being downloaded from pdftablet.s3.amazonaws.com and multiple other hosts.
Publisher:
Honlyn (Macao Commercial Offshore) Limited  (signed and verified)

MD5:
523fe032ba55ff46d616b7f11de8f8ff

SHA-1:
0917d4620c8cfc8ae4e92c1a467ea503ba138265

SHA-256:
ac1766566d7b404d6fe7e7a95214216d8cf61a2db97f0b233c631728a39741ad

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Analysis date:
12/27/2024 12:55:22 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
Win32.Generic.HonlynMacaoCommercialOffshore.Installer.Meta
15.7.17.0

File size:
2.5 MB (2,670,600 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Honlyn (Macao Commercial Offshore) Limited

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
8/21/2012 5:00:00 PM

Valid to:
8/21/2015 4:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Honlyn (Macao Commercial Offshore) Limited, OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O=Honlyn (Macao Commercial Offshore) Limited, L=Macau, S=Macau, C=MO

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:
1A2B9E67ACE7E5B318FED4F1ACAE76BB

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
12/5/2009 2:50:41 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
49152:D8doYERX486ELiWI5EkjreaEmqnfXZtY493s0zk2Sq4QIA7yaWo:D8doRd6ELQrearqnfp557znSq4QI/m

Entry address:
0x30CB

Entry point:
81, EC, 80, 01, 00, 00, 53, 55, 56, 33, DB, 57, 89, 5C, 24, 18, C7, 44, 24, 10, 60, 91, 40, 00, 33, F6, C6, 44, 24, 14, 20, FF, 15, 30, 70, 40, 00, 68, 01, 80, 00, 00, FF, 15, B0, 70, 40, 00, 53, FF, 15, 7C, 72, 40, 00, 6A, 08, A3, 38, 3F, 42, 00, E8, F1, 2B, 00, 00, A3, 84, 3E, 42, 00, 53, 8D, 44, 24, 34, 68, 60, 01, 00, 00, 50, 53, 68, 30, F4, 41, 00, FF, 15, 58, 71, 40, 00, 68, 54, 91, 40, 00, 68, 80, 36, 42, 00, E8, A4, 28, 00, 00, FF, 15, AC, 70, 40, 00, BF, 00, 90, 42, 00, 50, 57, E8, 92, 28, 00, 00...
 
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Entropy:
7.9935

Packer / compiler:
Nullsoft install system v2.x

Code size:
22.5 KB (23,040 bytes)

The file freepdfreading.exe has been seen being distributed by the following 2 URLs.

http://pdftablet.s3.amazonaws.com/FreePDFReading.exe

http://www.freepdftablet.com/download.php

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