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freewordsetup.exe

The application freewordsetup.exe has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 3 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) installer, however the file is not signed with an authenticode signature from a trusted source. The file has been seen being downloaded from 8f56ec5a25d50527cde0d768c7fd987b.lswcdn.net and multiple other hosts.
MD5:
ea23f6678e8b675b6e185c06d9e0ad2c

SHA-1:
e03046b0c97350f9d7e6799d9d99c38f5655f1c3

SHA-256:
2fa3a8cb2a8764396799be85550538fe3d3cc16e640bd2ff41fc3d527a607c13

Scanner detections:
3 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Explanation:
May bundle various unwanted software without adequate user consent.

Analysis date:
11/5/2024 2:28:40 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

AVG
Could be an adware MultiBundle
2015.0.4355

ESET NOD32
Win32/DownWare.AR potentially unwanted application
8.0.319.0

Reason Heuristics
Adware.Bundler (M)
16.5.1.16

File size:
333 KB (341,010 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)

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

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
8/3/2015 9:43:56 PM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
6144:P0hNLDR3UMsFiv6BtgZHbGYXwj5484rL+:M3R3UMssG2ZyYXU4fm

Entry address:
0x31FD

Entry point:
81, EC, 80, 01, 00, 00, 53, 55, 56, 57, 33, DB, 68, 01, 80, 00, 00, 89, 5C, 24, 1C, C7, 44, 24, 14, F0, 73, 40, 00, 33, F6, C6, 44, 24, 18, 20, FF, 15, B4, 70, 40, 00, FF, 15, B0, 70, 40, 00, 66, 83, F8, 06, 74, 11, 53, E8, F3, 26, 00, 00, 3B, C3, 74, 07, 68, 00, 0C, 00, 00, FF, D0, 68, E8, 73, 40, 00, E8, 74, 26, 00, 00, 68, E0, 73, 40, 00, E8, 6A, 26, 00, 00, 68, D4, 73, 40, 00, E8, 60, 26, 00, 00, 6A, 0D, E8, C3, 26, 00, 00, 6A, 0B, E8, BC, 26, 00, 00, A3, 00, 3C, 42, 00, FF, 15, 34, 70, 40, 00, 53, FF...
 
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Entropy:
7.0486

Packer / compiler:
Nullsoft install system v2.x

Code size:
23 KB (23,552 bytes)

The file freewordsetup.exe has been seen being distributed by the following 3 URLs.

http://8f56ec5a25d50527cde0d768c7fd987b.lswcdn.net/FreeWordSetup.exe

http://27a1d1c1a43aabe8e7b5ac7cd404bfb3.lswcdn.net/FreeWordSetup.exe

http://www.appfindr.org/en/.../download.php

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