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george michel - wham - careless whisper.exe

New IT Limited

This is a bundle installer which bundles applications with offers for additional 3rd party software, mostly unwanted adware, and may be installed with minimal consent. The application george michel - wham - careless whisper.exe by New IT Limited has been detected as adware 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 New IT Desktop Setup installer. The file has been seen being downloaded from dc100.4shared.com.
Publisher:
New IT Limited  (signed and verified)

MD5:
bef082a908f36e12c315fd47d89e6beb

SHA-1:
f25545a49bcccb11e524166f6de40cbdcb8ccb89

SHA-256:
f0b51f66b647cf42082b2dbda1358f6943b99804723ef2a35854ce55e83bb6d1

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Adware

Note:
Our current pool of anti-malware engines have not currently detected this file, however based on our own detection heuristics we feel that this file is unwanted.

Description:
This 'download manager' is also considered bundleware, a utility designed to download software (possibly legitimate or opensource) and bundle it with a number of optional offers including ad-supported utilities, toolbars, shopping comparison tools and browser extensions.

Analysis date:
11/5/2024 9:52:23 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.New IT Limited.NewIT.Bundler (M)
16.6.9.0

File size:
520.4 KB (532,848 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
New IT Desktop Setup

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\george michel - wham - careless whisper.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
New IT Limited

Authority:
GoDaddy.com, Inc.

Valid from:
11/16/2012 6:16:05 PM

Valid to:
11/16/2013 4:30:34 PM

Subject:
CN=New IT Limited, O=New IT Limited, L=Nicosia, S=Nicosia, C=CY

Issuer:
SERIALNUMBER=07969287, CN=Go Daddy Secure Certification Authority, OU=http://certificates.godaddy.com/repository, O="GoDaddy.com, Inc.", L=Scottsdale, S=Arizona, C=US

Serial number:
2B2A165690BBAA

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
1/9/2013 1:12:31 PM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:V/4JGQmsuHX5gpl4tJu0ZFOnD87wz6613CBa:V/PsuHX5gaJ3ZFOnQ7Q3ea

Entry address:
0x970C

Entry point:
E8, 9A, 55, 00, 00, E9, 79, FE, FF, FF, 6A, 10, 68, 58, B3, 41, 00, E8, 4E, 25, 00, 00, 33, C0, 33, F6, 39, 75, 08, 0F, 95, C0, 3B, C6, 75, 20, E8, A7, 16, 00, 00, C7, 00, 16, 00, 00, 00, 56, 56, 56, 56, 56, E8, C3, FA, FF, FF, 83, C4, 14, 83, C8, FF, E9, C4, 00, 00, 00, 33, C0, 8B, 7D, 0C, 3B, FE, 0F, 95, C0, 3B, C6, 74, D2, F6, 47, 0C, 40, 75, 5F, 57, E8, 4A, 31, 00, 00, 59, 83, F8, FF, 74, 1B, 83, F8, FE, 74, 16, 8B, D0, C1, FA, 05, 8B, C8, 83, E1, 1F, C1, E1, 06, 03, 0C, 95, A0, F2, 41, 00, EB, 05, B9...
 
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Code size:
88.5 KB (90,624 bytes)

The file george michel - wham - careless whisper.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

https://dc100.4shared.com/downloadhelper/exe/.../George michel - Wham - Careless whisper.exe

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