freeultimatefileopener.exe

Fedder Corporation Limited

The application freeultimatefileopener.exe by Fedder Limited has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 6 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 freefilesviewer.com.
Publisher:
Fedder Corporation Limited  (signed and verified)

MD5:
253674ac34edca5e1f6f9083b6ee06b1

SHA-1:
7c4f90847e870ab9edb755ff831997d2eb0baf5a

SHA-256:
ce26efa08cbcae0f2a8aa17e8b05b9eee05fb27e70ce449f239b2e23468d173a

Scanner detections:
6 / 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 6:50:43 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

AVG
Dencol
2016.0.3096

Baidu Antivirus
Adware.Win32.AskToolbar
4.0.3.15527

ESET NOD32
Win32/Bundled.Toolbar.Ask.G potentially unsafe (variant)
9.11692

K7 AntiVirus
Unwanted-Program
13.204.16042

Reason Heuristics
Win32.Generic.Installer.Meta
15.5.27.17

Trend Micro House Call
Suspicious_GEN.F47V0305
7.2.147

File size:
12.8 MB (13,465,848 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)

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

Digital Signature
Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
9/16/2013 8:00:00 PM

Valid to:
9/17/2015 7:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Fedder Corporation Limited, OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O=Fedder Corporation Limited, L=Hong Kong, S=Hong Kong, C=HK

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:
22D2B6AFF4224506F133F373AAB07BFB

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
12/5/2009 5:50:46 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
393216:7jWc+ZzLjvgCTokLEgmQWE5XgFTkdGslMnhcavX///S:76cqfDpToCEgUEQVkdGMMyaf6

Entry address:
0x323C

Entry point:
81, EC, 80, 01, 00, 00, 53, 55, 56, 33, DB, 57, 89, 5C, 24, 18, C7, 44, 24, 10, 30, 91, 40, 00, 33, F6, C6, 44, 24, 14, 20, FF, 15, 30, 70, 40, 00, 68, 01, 80, 00, 00, FF, 15, B4, 70, 40, 00, 53, FF, 15, 7C, 72, 40, 00, 6A, 08, A3, 58, 3F, 42, 00, E8, 09, 2C, 00, 00, A3, A4, 3E, 42, 00, 53, 8D, 44, 24, 34, 68, 60, 01, 00, 00, 50, 53, 68, 58, F4, 41, 00, FF, 15, 58, 71, 40, 00, 68, B8, 91, 40, 00, 68, A0, 36, 42, 00, E8, BC, 28, 00, 00, FF, 15, B0, 70, 40, 00, BF, 00, 90, 42, 00, 50, 57, E8, AA, 28, 00, 00...
 
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Entropy:
7.9987

Packer / compiler:
Nullsoft install system v2.x

Code size:
23 KB (23,552 bytes)

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

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