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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 www.appfindr.org and multiple other hosts.
MD5:
faa52eac4f66212e7c36d503c992014e

SHA-1:
f85707c2d4e8cb8324589cda63a4486098758150

SHA-256:
55eb2c7b9e8206b1760cf2221694fa8e16b552afc40e2799cf5def7c8cf177c4

Scanner detections:
3 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

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

Analysis date:
12/27/2024 1:52:59 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

AVG
Could be an adware MultiBundle
2015.0.4477

ESET NOD32
Win32/DownWare.AO potentially unwanted application
7.0.302.0

Reason Heuristics
Adware.DownloadShield.Bundle.Installer.Meta (M)
16.2.24.0

File size:
321 KB (328,729 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\microsoft\windows\inetcache\ie\{random}\freewordsetup.exe

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
8/28/2014 11:10:27 PM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
3072:jAWEqcrBSEjtGxJsezUvW5qnUaajp/woBQjkHviqBLTfvdClCOEJxcKlRuLe3:jkZcxKezUesNI/RBQQHJFAlVuxrrj3

Entry address:
0x3350

Entry point:
81, EC, 80, 01, 00, 00, 53, 55, 56, 33, DB, 57, 89, 5C, 24, 18, C7, 44, 24, 10, A8, 73, 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, B8, 3C, 42, 00, E8, 23, 25, 00, 00, 53, 68, 60, 01, 00, 00, A3, C0, 3B, 42, 00, 8D, 44, 24, 38, 50, 53, 68, 3B, 74, 40, 00, FF, 15, 58, 71, 40, 00, 68, 30, 74, 40, 00, 68, C0, 33, 42, 00, E8, 15, 24, 00, 00, FF, 15, B0, 70, 40, 00, 50, BF, 00, 90, 42, 00, 57, E8, 03, 24, 00, 00...
 
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Entropy:
6.9966

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 2 URLs.

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

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

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