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FrostWire 6

FrostWire LLC

The application frostwire-installer.exe, “FrostWire - Search, Download, Play, Share.” has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 8 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 installer uses the OpenCandy monitzation platform which will donwload and install offers in the setup for potentially unwanted software including ad/search-supported toolbars.
Publisher:
FrostWire LLC

Product:
FrostWire 6

Description:
FrostWire - Search, Download, Play, Share.

Version:
6.0.6.1

MD5:
058b6a9d4027a11e76e2e85139bd6a08

SHA-1:
a0777f529f16c712b1b8483a356deabaa1e9f5a4

SHA-256:
e5e7644126ac2e33257088245f0d7735ef9aee588a465be581254efca0cc41e8

Scanner detections:
8 / 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:
12/25/2024 11:41:42 PM UTC  (a few moments ago)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

avast!
Win32:Adware-gen [Adw]
2014.9-150218

AVG
OpenCandy
2016.0.3194

Dr.Web
Adware.OpenCandy.55
9.0.1.049

ESET NOD32
Win32/OpenCandy.C potentially unsafe (variant)
9.11196

G Data
Win32.Adware.OpenCandy
15.2.25

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.OpenCandy
v2015.02.18.06

Qihoo 360 Security
HEUR/QVM18.1.Malware.Gen
1.0.0.1015

Trend Micro House Call
Suspicious_GEN.F47V0218
7.2.49

File size:
22.9 MB (24,053,633 bytes)

Product version:
6.0.6.1

Copyright:
FrostWire LLC 2008

Original file name:
frostwire-6.0.6.windows.coc.premium.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\Program Files\frostwire\frostwire-installer.exe

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
7/8/2012 7:50:55 AM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
10.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
393216:Ii6T7JcMZxZIKM3lsnYqMNTJHd+7Xk81GdfW/bxARkc0HurPNP0kiCcJRnPuyrjE:P6PJcM5IKMiY7HM31YfWTxvc0HWPNP00

Entry address:
0x3A02

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, F0, 91, 40, 00, 89, 6C, 24, 14, FF, 15, 30, 80, 40, 00, 68, 01, 80, 00, 00, FF, 15, B8, 80, 40, 00, 55, FF, 15, C0, 82, 40, 00, 6A, 08, A3, B8, 2E, 47, 00, E8, 38, 2A, 00, 00, 55, 68, B4, 02, 00, 00, A3, D0, 2D, 47, 00, 8D, 44, 24, 38, 50, 55, 68, 34, 93, 40, 00, FF, 15, 84, 81, 40, 00, 68, 1C, 93, 40, 00, 68, C0, AD, 46, 00, E8, 1A, 27, 00, 00, FF, 15, B4, 80, 40, 00, 50, BF, A0, 30, 4C, 00, 57, E8, 08, 27, 00, 00...
 
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Entropy:
7.9930

Packer / compiler:
Nullsoft install system v2.x

Code size:
28 KB (28,672 bytes)

The file frostwire-installer.exe has been seen being distributed by the following 7 URLs.

http://filehippo.com/download/file/.../

http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/frostwire/FrostWire 6.x/.../frostwire-6.0.6.windows.coc.premium.exe

http://installer.frostwire.com/win-latest.php

http://www.filehippo.com/download/file/.../

http://www.filehippo.com/download/file/.../

http://www.filehippo.com/download/file/.../

http://dl.frostwire.com/frostwire/.../frostwire-6.0.6.windows.coc.premium.exe

The executing file has been seen to make the following network communication in live environments.

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to ec2-50-16-13-109.compute-1.amazonaws.com  (50.16.13.109:80)

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