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 lb.cdn.m6web.fr and multiple other hosts.
Publisher:
DVDVideoSoft Ltd.   (signed by Digital Wave Ltd)

Product:
Free Studio

Description:
Free Studio Setup

Version:
6.6.1.119

MD5:
8e43b6c5e1359bc83668056171eff380

SHA-1:
e64ead1b29fc5228198dfc85c073ad86c364cf7d

SHA-256:
fcf3ef8eef03edc4d8c323c18353924b6d1618d073608abb06bde990e79691c1

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:
11/26/2024 11:29:27 PM UTC  (a few moments ago)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

avast!
SaliCode
2014.9-160119

AVG
Generic
2017.0.2859

Baidu Antivirus
PUA.Win32.FusionCore
4.0.3.16119

Dr.Web
Adware.Toolbar.576
9.0.1.019

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

Fortinet FortiGate
Riskware/OpenCandy
1/19/2016

G Data
Win32.Application.Dealply
16.1.25

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)
16.1.19.15

Rising Antivirus
PE:Trojan.Win32.SpeedingUpMyPC.a!1075357520
23.00.65.16117

VIPRE Antivirus
Threat.4721115
40552

File size:
58.5 MB (61,363,080 bytes)

Product version:
6.6.1.119

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

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

Digital Signature
Authority:
Symantec Corporation

Valid from:
12/23/2014 1:00:00 AM

Valid to:
12/23/2017 12:59:59 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 3:24:20 PM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.25

CTPH (ssdeep):
1572864:EzlWek9ZobKGa3WUX16MouhqLT3apD1g2MrRGMMLickghZQ71pm2j:ER4ZojaZFMa7IRHcjZQ7W2j

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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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 42 URLs.

http://lb.cdn.m6web.fr/d/c/a/e1346bc371950c4e814e22a73a578515/56df34b0/soft/.../free-studio_6-6-1-119_fr_297352.exe

http://lb.cdn.m6web.fr/d/c/a/b53666e548560dc94666ce19d5afbe05/56c8b0e8/soft/.../free-studio_6-6-1-119_fr_297352.exe

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

http://lb.cdn.m6web.fr/d/c/a/2e708b57a7ebe13a564711a9832bf1d4/56b25bef/soft/.../free-studio_6-6-1-119_fr_297352.exe

http://lb.cdn.m6web.fr/d/c/a/e41405a80d23c5e62251aded9342694f/56b3c0a6/soft/.../free-studio_6-6-1-119_fr_297352.exe

http://lb.cdn.m6web.fr/d/c/a/844d5dceddf1da5cea9892cb36f5f150/56d62869/soft/.../free-studio_6-6-1-119_fr_297352.exe

http://i.download.idg.pl/fannef/e23326b10cd989e5a944d298d09941ea/56c0eece//vol2/w95/multimedia/.../FreeStudio_6.6.1.119.exe

http://download.dvdvideosoft.com/FreeStudio.exe

http://i.download.idg.pl/fannef/b93fc366d442520d6736beb65c7cf6cd/574c08bd//vol2/w95/multimedia/.../FreeStudio_6.6.1.119.exe

http://lb.cdn.m6web.fr/d/c/a/1b6752a6da79b3a54c4450b041bcd921/56b3e1f8/soft/.../free-studio_6-6-1-119_fr_297352.exe

http://web-downloads.dvdvideosoft.com/.../FreeStudio.exe

https://secure.innodl.com/.../free-studio-manager.exe

http://downloads.dvdvideosoft.com/FreeStudio.exe

http://i.download.idg.pl/fannef/91a332bedb459d157471d0fd15c21c34/5739d5f3//vol2/w95/multimedia/.../FreeStudio_6.6.1.119.exe

http://i.download.idg.pl/fannef/138205c077d9bdd050d0f20ff0ebea45/5729bce0//vol2/w95/multimedia/.../FreeStudio_6.6.1.119.exe

http://fs31.filehippo.com/5287/.../FreeStudio.exe

http://www.softportal.com/getsoft-23402-free-studio-1.html

Latest 30 of 42 download URLs

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