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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 self-extracting archive and installer and has been known to bundle potentially unwanted software. The file has been seen being downloaded from lp.guardi.us and multiple other hosts.
Publisher:
Perion Network Ltd  (signed by Perion Network Ltd.)

Product:
Guardius Installer

Version:
3, 1, 0, 1

MD5:
583381ae228c2f96c062aa603654c771

SHA-1:
acb8ce320040b8a64a5f43cbd5e9910e9ec81bac

SHA-256:
da07a011362c3b49b952606e66ed743f7ca3e95d1225a7b2eac5ef048653bdfb

Scanner detections:
6 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Analysis date:
12/25/2024 1:15:05 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Comodo Security
Heur.Suspicious
17321

ESET NOD32
Win32/SweetIM (variant)
7.9158

McAfee
Artemis!DF7B5F1D3F15
5600.7278

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Installer.Perion.I
14.3.1.7

Trend Micro House Call
TROJ_GEN.F47V1119
7.2.351

VIPRE Antivirus
Sweetpacks/SweetIM
24240

File size:
484.8 KB (496,432 bytes)

Product version:
3, 1, 0, 1

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 5:00:00 PM

Valid to:
4/23/2015 4:59:59 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:
7/23/2013 7:44:55 AM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:NxDR2CCY1KqjfV2qI6SBbSICalUUwnTJ4oSH+:NxDR2CCY1zV57SBbSICaWUMdS+

Entry address:
0x18B0D0

Entry point:
60, BE, 00, 90, 51, 00, 8D, BE, 00, 80, EE, FF, 57, 89, E5, 8D, 9C, 24, 80, C1, FF, FF, 31, C0, 50, 39, DC, 75, FB, 46, 46, 53, 68, 11, 96, 18, 00, 57, 83, C3, 04, 53, 68, C2, 20, 07, 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:
7.9772  (probably packed)

Code size:
460 KB (471,040 bytes)

The file guardius.exe has been seen being distributed by the following 8 URLs.

http://lp.guardi.us/grd.asp

http://trailer.web-view.net/.../0XFD1F7D2791C35915E7BCF641C4C3D1A3081BB87D2D70BDEFCD664279C9C5C97A61A64F1C709BE88D8FEE9AECE19BDB0F5A001622E0F04FFE70947AA840E04B6AFC7B75182448CBB4.htm

http://trailer.web-view.net/.../0XFD1F7D2791C35915E7BCF641C4C3D1A3081BB87D2D70BDEFCD664279C9C5C97A61A64F1C709BE88D4127CFB3D8A0DB305A001622E0F04FFE70947AA840E04B6AFC7B75182448CBB4.htm

http://trailer.web-view.net/.../0XFD1F7D2791C35915E7BCF641C4C3D1A3081BB87D2D70BDEFCD664279C9C5C97A61A64F1C709BE88DA6243943BD596ACA5A001622E0F04FFE70947AA840E04B6AFC7B75182448CBB4.htm

http://trailer.web-view.net/.../0XFD1F7D2791C35915E7BCF641C4C3D1A3081BB87D2D70BDEFCD664279C9C5C97A61A64F1C709BE88D5C35EAEBFFF608545A001622E0F04FFE70947AA840E04B6AFC7B75182448CBB4.htm

http://trailer.web-view.net/.../0X1E4B610A903B60E4A540A9EA9E38578C29C74140DC432528E6C62A15B1E4491A6A1E2314AF8F59D73CFDDAFDB76FF90D3CF11B5C33A7085970947AA840E04B6AFC7B75182448CBB4.htm

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

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

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