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freeziphelper.exe

Nicetex Ltd

The application freeziphelper.exe by Nicetex has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. The program is a setup application that uses the NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) installer. The file has been seen being downloaded from free-zip-helper.software.informer.com and multiple other hosts.
Publisher:
Nicetex Ltd  (signed and verified)

MD5:
6b318739c2c3918f06063ee4d2f3585e

SHA-1:
a8547b6ff847aecbbb77a03c1f019b02d7cd3a57

SHA-256:
5ad817bf1594b09f01cd52adb66fb7269813ec3aa15d6b7be4e6408d0b587d06

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Analysis date:
12/28/2024 11:11:51 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
Win32.Generic.Nicetex.Installer.Meta
15.9.27.18

File size:
1.4 MB (1,510,824 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Nicetex Ltd

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
9/30/2013 1:00:00 AM

Valid to:
10/1/2015 12:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=Nicetex Ltd, OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O=Nicetex Ltd, 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:
2DD8F3D5B9C9F70F512CB8B8D6A2D2D0

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
2/24/2012 7:20:04 PM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
10.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:QZ/+M21hukAW68FC2gcS9X1vZjxmen5EBKdyDV+u5E50nsE1zXIJRQyikZICsWpv:kk1lo8YDBIen5Xs+0E50nIHQDkuC88jN

Entry address:
0x38AF

Entry point:
81, EC, D4, 02, 00, 00, 53, 55, 56, 57, 6A, 20, 33, ED, 5E, 89, 6C, 24, 18, C7, 44, 24, 10, 68, A2, 40, 00, 89, 6C, 24, 14, FF, 15, 30, 90, 40, 00, 68, 01, 80, 00, 00, FF, 15, B4, 90, 40, 00, 55, FF, 15, C0, 92, 40, 00, 6A, 08, A3, 98, EB, 47, 00, E8, 36, 2A, 00, 00, 55, 68, B4, 02, 00, 00, A3, B0, EA, 47, 00, 8D, 44, 24, 38, 50, 55, 68, 64, A2, 40, 00, FF, 15, 84, 91, 40, 00, 68, 4C, A2, 40, 00, 68, A0, 6A, 47, 00, E8, 18, 27, 00, 00, FF, 15, B0, 90, 40, 00, 50, BF, A0, F0, 4C, 00, 57, E8, 06, 27, 00, 00...
 
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Entropy:
7.9686

Packer / compiler:
Nullsoft install system v2.x

Code size:
29 KB (29,696 bytes)

The file freeziphelper.exe has been seen being distributed by the following 2 URLs.

http://free-zip-helper.software.informer.com/.../

http://ziplockerz.com/FreeZipHelper.exe

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