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lantern-installer-beta.exe

Brave New Software Project, Inc

The executable lantern-installer-beta.exe has been detected as malware by 1 anti-virus scanner. The program is a setup application that uses the Nullsoft Install System installer. The file has been seen being downloaded from www.google.com and multiple other hosts.
Publisher:
Brave New Software Project, Inc  (signed and verified)

MD5:
c7b750a57d9807f6f5ec5d17aa8b8c20

SHA-1:
340d0e4ab061c81d9b4e03e34c669e6959f9ac57

SHA-256:
58ee57855652d80b63275b26c69b712c4969ef40d0efdfd0a217489a05a1ffe0

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Malware

Analysis date:
1/2/2025 4:52:35 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
Threat.Win.Reputation.IMP
17.1.10.8

File size:
4.8 MB (5,075,832 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
Nullsoft Install System

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\programs\lantern-installer-beta.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Brave New Software Project, Inc

Authority:
GoDaddy.com, Inc.

Valid from:
6/27/2016 10:44:38 PM

Valid to:
6/25/2019 11:17:38 PM

Subject:
CN="Brave New Software Project, Inc", O="Brave New Software Project, Inc", L=Los Angeles, S=California, C=US

Issuer:
CN=Go Daddy Secure Certificate Authority - G2, OU=http://certs.godaddy.com/repository/, O="GoDaddy.com, Inc.", L=Scottsdale, S=Arizona, C=US

Serial number:
33A3234620F016A6

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
5/29/2015 5:46:07 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.25

Entry address:
0x416D

Entry point:
55, 89, E5, 57, 56, 53, 81, EC, AC, 01, 00, 00, FF, 15, 74, B3, 45, 00, C7, 04, 24, 01, 80, 00, 00, FF, 15, 58, B4, 45, 00, 53, C7, 04, 24, 00, 00, 00, 00, FF, 15, 98, B4, 45, 00, 56, A3, 70, 2A, 45, 00, C7, 04, 24, 08, 00, 00, 00, E8, 83, 3C, 00, 00, A3, 40, 2B, 45, 00, 57, 8D, 85, 88, FE, FF, FF, C7, 44, 24, 10, 00, 00, 00, 00, C7, 44, 24, 0C, 60, 01, 00, 00, 89, 44, 24, 08, C7, 44, 24, 04, 00, 00, 00, 00, C7, 04, 24, A9, B2, 40, 00, FF, 15, AC, B4, 45, 00, 83, EC, 14, C7, 44, 24, 04, AA, B2, 40, 00, C7...
 
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Entropy:
7.9889  (probably packed)

Code size:
34 KB (34,816 bytes)

The file lantern-installer-beta.exe has been seen being distributed by the following 4 URLs.

https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://s3.amazonaws.com/.../lantern-installer-beta.exe&source=gmail&ust=1485135503415000&usg=AFQjCNGeu8wK3I0dN8WFtJWgL_LWng6yXQ

https://www.getlantern.org/lantern-installer-beta.exe

https://getlantern.org/lantern-installer-beta.exe

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/getlantern/lantern-binaries/.../lantern-installer-beta.exe

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