horizon-setup.exe

Horizon

Daring Development Inc.

The application horizon-setup.exe, “Horizon Setup Program” by Daring Development has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 2 anti-malware scanners. This is a self-extracting archive and installer and has been known to bundle potentially unwanted software. 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. The file has been seen being downloaded from openload.co and multiple other hosts.
Publisher:
WeMod  (signed by Daring Development Inc.)

Product:
Horizon

Description:
Horizon Setup Program

Version:
2.8.16

MD5:
801d82c3ff859b05e25b8fc881c5e7d6

SHA-1:
c31bf06ad5352565ceaed7cca7b5315595c1bb3b

SHA-256:
756fca8e9c179948ef8a9c35446f90bf6a07461d9f73eab5e2d90ae324fa0600

Scanner detections:
2 / 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:
12/26/2024 3:45:16 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

ESET NOD32
Win32/OpenCandy.A potentially unsafe application
7.0.302.0

Reason Heuristics
PUP.OpenCandy.Installer (L)
16.2.16.2

File size:
1.2 MB (1,275,816 bytes)

Product version:
2.8.16

Copyright:
Copyright © WeMod

Original file name:
HorizonSetup.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\horizon-setup.exe

Digital Signature
Authority:
Symantec Corporation

Valid from:
10/13/2015 9:00:00 PM

Valid to:
11/12/2017 9:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Daring Development Inc., O=Daring Development Inc., L=Mamaroneck, S=New York, C=US

Issuer:
CN=Symantec Class 3 SHA256 Code Signing CA, OU=Symantec Trust Network, O=Symantec Corporation, C=US

Serial number:
7590BF3D154A9F5B7D40A396BEAD00A3

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
1/29/2016 3:40:11 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
14.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:YdAqTCgTPlGBrwgHDIATcIWUW0X74oGm8ODWhcaNG:YdtRTdGBrbIATcI08BGQDCU

Entry address:
0x4F702

Entry point:
E8, DD, 04, 00, 00, E9, 80, FE, FF, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 83, 25, 2C, AE, 4A, 00, 00, 83, EC, 2C, 53, 33, DB, 43, 09, 1D, D0, 82, 4A, 00, 6A, 0A, E8, D2, 84, 02, 00, 85, C0, 0F, 84, 74, 01, 00, 00, 83, 65, EC, 00, 33, C0, 83, 0D, D0, 82, 4A, 00, 02, 33, C9, 56, 57, 89, 1D, 2C, AE, 4A, 00, 8D, 7D, D4, 53, 0F, A2, 8B, F3, 5B, 89, 07, 89, 77, 04, 89, 4F, 08, 89, 57, 0C, 8B, 45, D4, 8B, 4D, E0, 89, 45, F4, 81, F1, 69, 6E, 65, 49, 8B, 45, DC, 35, 6E, 74, 65, 6C, 0B, C8, 8B, 45, D8, 35, 47, 65, 6E, 75, 0B, C8, F7, D9...
 
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Code size:
527 KB (539,648 bytes)

The file horizon-setup.exe has been seen being distributed by the following 23 URLs.

https://openload.co/.../hh-yVKhTBow~1484840413~189.78.0.0~WE4nVPrE

https://openload.co/.../hh-yVKhTBow~1481230116~189.46.0.0~KfU9pZsX

https://openload.co/.../hh-yVKhTBow~1478478844~177.23.0.0~wccZebo6

https://openload.co/.../hh-yVKhTBow~1474913099~179.159.0.0~jCdZjYxZ

https://openload.co/.../hh-yVKhTBow~1480714880~201.6.0.0~0_18ovJQ

https://openload.co/.../hh-yVKhTBow~1483658508~187.13.0.0~FxNOYwCe

https://openload.co/.../hh-yVKhTBow~1483825052~138.99.0.0~Sn6L4K-z

https://openload.co/.../hh-yVKhTBow~1476746168~2804:7f0::~4p6I__Wh

http://download1287.mediafire.com/21r4yobccc7g/.../horizon-setup.exe

https://openload.co/.../hh-yVKhTBow~1480261351~189.62.0.0~G60a7DPl

https://openload.co/.../hh-yVKhTBow~1476065391~200.49.0.0~TSB7Om5o

http://download.findmysoft.com/2016/02/.../Horizon_2.8.18.exe

temp:Horizon-Setup.exe

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

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to s3-1-w.amazonaws.com  (54.231.49.202:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to dg-in-f101.1e100.net  (209.85.202.101:80)

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