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freestudio.exe

Free Studio

Digital Wave Ltd

The application freestudio.exe, “Free Studio Setup ” by Digital Wave has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 12 anti-malware scanners. This is a setup and installation application and has been known to bundle potentially unwanted software. 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 dld.dvdvideosoft.net.
Publisher:
DVDVideoSoft Ltd.   (signed by Digital Wave Ltd)

Product:
Free Studio

Description:
Free Studio Setup

Version:
6.6.1.119

MD5:
b61a242fbb6110a7d3d86f64f830fc8e

SHA-1:
cec3d9e6c9445d0bf28d41a04d0edb70500d12ec

SHA-256:
55c13349d41cda194046453322a93f71a5d4d9c8d30c90a2990dc2d5a660e209

Scanner detections:
12 / 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:
11/27/2024 1:24:34 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

avast!
SaliCode
2014.9-160212

AVG
Generic
2017.0.2836

Baidu Antivirus
PUA.Win32.FusionCore
4.0.3.16212

Dr.Web
Adware.Toolbar.576
9.0.1.043

ESET NOD32
Win32/OpenCandy.A potentially unsafe (variant)
10.12635

Fortinet FortiGate
Riskware/OpenCandy
2/12/2016

G Data
Win32.Application.Dealply
16.2.25

IKARUS anti.virus
PUA.OpenCandy
t3scan.1.9.5.0

Microsoft Security Essentials
Threat.Undefined
1.199.1385.0

Reason Heuristics
PUP.DigitalWave.Bundler.Installer.Meta (L)
16.2.12.9

Rising Antivirus
PE:Trojan.Win32.SpeedingUpMyPC.a!1075357520
23.00.65.16210

VIPRE Antivirus
Threat.4721115
40552

File size:
58.6 MB (61,435,976 bytes)

Product version:
6.6.1.119

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
Language Neutral

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Digital Wave Ltd

Authority:
Symantec Corporation

Valid from:
12/23/2014 2:00:00 AM

Valid to:
12/23/2017 1:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=Digital Wave Ltd, O=Digital Wave Ltd, L=London, S=London, C=GB

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

Serial number:
1825ED6422D189492317AAD87B5382C5

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
7/16/2015 4:24:20 PM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.25

CTPH (ssdeep):
786432:ZviPPnV59j/gzwJFsCE7+4wxLS0klaGC0S9KJENjMGnOBdLNQeo7kR7y4qG7KY+D:ZiPPV59zgGFs+yYNjt9n4NQeoA48zLvW

Entry address:
0x113BC

Entry point:
55, 8B, EC, 83, C4, A4, 53, 56, 57, 33, C0, 89, 45, C4, 89, 45, C0, 89, 45, A4, 89, 45, D0, 89, 45, C8, 89, 45, CC, 89, 45, D4, 89, 45, D8, 89, 45, EC, B8, 34, 00, 41, 00, E8, E8, 51, FF, FF, 33, C0, 55, 68, 9E, 1A, 41, 00, 64, FF, 30, 64, 89, 20, 33, D2, 55, 68, 5A, 1A, 41, 00, 64, FF, 32, 64, 89, 22, A1, 48, 5B, 41, 00, E8, 1E, D8, FF, FF, E8, 6D, D3, FF, FF, 80, 3D, DC, 2A, 41, 00, 00, 74, 0C, E8, 33, D9, FF, FF, 33, C0, E8, 80, 32, FF, FF, 8D, 55, EC, 33, C0, E8, E2, A3, FF, FF, 8B, 55, EC, B8, 54, 86...
 
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Entropy:
7.9999

Developed / compiled with:
Microsoft Visual C++

Code size:
63.5 KB (65,024 bytes)

The file freestudio.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

http://dld.dvdvideosoft.net/.../FreeStudio.exe

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