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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 5 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) installer. This version of the installer will bundle the Ask.com Toolbar, a potentially unwanted web browser extension. 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:
29649fdae167045aae960df7c3b6e83d

SHA-1:
8105a00e83eaa1542441a99e76f3191fb7d94e59

SHA-256:
1caad66ee11765b8f7d2683445c5d63efa1716611b79a9a380e916edffd9133f

Scanner detections:
5 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Explanation:
Bundles that Ask.com toolbar as a third-party offer, a web browser extension that may modify a user's search and home pages.

Analysis date:
11/15/2024 4:24:27 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

ESET NOD32
Win32/Bundled.Toolbar.Ask.G potentially unsafe (variant)
9.12258

Fortinet FortiGate
Riskware/Ask
9/15/2015

K7 AntiVirus
Unwanted-Program
13.210.17225

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.APNToolBar
v2015.09.15.11

Reason Heuristics
Win32.Generic.HonlynMacaoCommercialOffshore.Installer.Meta
15.9.15.23

File size:
2.5 MB (2,670,224 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:
Symantec Corporation

Valid from:
9/8/2015 3:00:00 AM

Valid to:
10/8/2017 3:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=Honlyn (Macao Commercial Offshore) Limited, O=Honlyn (Macao Commercial Offshore) Limited, L=Macau, S=Macau, C=MO

Issuer:
CN=Symantec Class 3 SHA256 Code Signing CA, OU=Symantec Trust Network, O=Symantec Corporation, C=US

Serial number:
4BC4BDE05163DF071B194A0EB664470F

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
12/6/2009 1:50:41 AM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
49152:e8doYERX486ELiWI5EkjreaEmqnfXZtY493s0zk2Sq4QIA7yaWZ:e8doRd6ELQrearqnfp557znSq4QI/j

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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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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