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guardius.exe

Guardius Installer

Perion Network Ltd.

The application guardius.exe by Perion Network has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 6 anti-malware scanners. This is a setup and installation application and has been known to bundle potentially unwanted software. The file has been seen being downloaded from cdn.download.guardi.us.
Publisher:
Perion Network Ltd  (signed by Perion Network Ltd.)

Product:
Guardius Installer

Version:
4, 1, 0, 8

MD5:
df7b5f1d3f1559b65001464478c053dd

SHA-1:
3162f400d1d6ad4f69264506510cf6421b54639d

SHA-256:
fdc1949e588e3b0a6313629f6014942f771ba1d6c7d064eff85db1c9659984ee

Scanner detections:
6 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Analysis date:
12/25/2024 2:14:56 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Comodo Security
Heur.Suspicious
17321

ESET NOD32
Win32/SweetIM (variant)
7.9158

McAfee
Artemis!DF7B5F1D3F15
5600.7285

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Installer.Perion.I
14.3.1.4

Trend Micro House Call
TROJ_GEN.F47V1119
7.2.345

VIPRE Antivirus
Sweetpacks/SweetIM
24240

File size:
582.3 KB (596,272 bytes)

Product version:
4, 1, 0, 8

Copyright:
Copyright © 2013 Perion Network Ltd.

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
English (United States)

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Perion Network Ltd.

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
4/23/2012 8:00:00 PM

Valid to:
4/23/2015 7:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Perion Network Ltd., OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O=Perion Network Ltd., L=Tel Aviv, S=Tel Aviv, C=IL

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:
45F87694FE8D1984719796AEC8031DF4

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
11/3/2013 9:02:40 AM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:SdJGHu7f1765L9g9pbg/V9BaIrQedozjmfl0vn0MewWZwZoaA7coS6b:SzGMNe55gbs/V9BaIrKzjmN0vn0nvwZk

Entry address:
0x1E96C0

Entry point:
60, BE, 00, F0, 55, 00, 8D, BE, 00, 20, EA, FF, 57, 89, E5, 8D, 9C, 24, 80, C1, FF, FF, 31, C0, 50, 39, DC, 75, FB, 46, 46, 53, 68, 4F, 77, 1E, 00, 57, 83, C3, 04, 53, 68, B4, A6, 08, 00, 56, 83, C3, 04, 53, 50, C7, 03, 03, 00, 02, 00, 90, 90, 90, 90, 90, 55, 57, 56, 53, 83, EC, 7C, 8B, 94, 24, 90, 00, 00, 00, C7, 44, 24, 74, 00, 00, 00, 00, C6, 44, 24, 73, 00, 8B, AC, 24, 9C, 00, 00, 00, 8D, 42, 04, 89, 44, 24, 78, B8, 01, 00, 00, 00, 0F, B6, 4A, 02, 89, C3, D3, E3, 89, D9, 49, 89, 4C, 24, 6C, 0F, B6, 4A...
 
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Entropy:
7.9834  (probably packed)

Code size:
560 KB (573,440 bytes)

The file guardius.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

http://cdn.download.guardi.us/.../guardius.exe

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