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little_disk_cleaner_12_21_2012.exe

Little Disk Cleaner

Nicholas Hamnett

The application little_disk_cleaner_12_21_2012.exe, “Open source disk cleaner” by Nicholas Hamnett has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 10 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) installer. 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 iweb.dl.sourceforge.net and multiple other hosts.
Publisher:
Little Apps  (signed by Nicholas Hamnett)

Product:
Little Disk Cleaner

Description:
Open source disk cleaner

Version:
1.0.0

MD5:
64310fc22c0aa228fbcf4158db663517

SHA-1:
6be6f965b36726ca2b5c3e583c121c14e4bf1e30

SHA-256:
4404e4b627ce2f6f5b1d9c8977bf9f1accc7fda4b2298e13a9a24fb150cbe8c3

Scanner detections:
10 / 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:
11/24/2024 5:33:18 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

avast!
Win32:Malware-gen
2014.9-141229

AVG
OpenCandy
2015.0.3245

ESET NOD32
Win32/OpenCandy (variant)
8.10912

IKARUS anti.virus
PUA.MSIL.Rebrand
t3scan.1.8.5.0

K7 AntiVirus
Trojan
13.188.14395

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.OpenCandy
v2014.12.29.10

McAfee
Artemis!64310FC22C0A
5600.6901

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Optional.NicholasHamnett.EE
14.12.29.22

Trend Micro House Call
Suspicious_GEN.F47V1103
7.2.363

VIPRE Antivirus
Opencandy
35960

File size:
3.7 MB (3,883,792 bytes)

Copyright:
Copyright © Little Apps 2008

Trademarks:
Little Apps are licensed under the GNU General Public License v3

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\little_disk_cleaner_12_21_2012.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Nicholas Hamnett

Authority:
StartCom Ltd.

Valid from:
4/11/2014 8:07:27 AM

Valid to:
4/10/2016 12:06:36 PM

Subject:
E=nick@little-apps.org, CN=Nicholas Hamnett, L=Calgary, S=Alberta, C=CA, Description=9k6ekwkCO7QG1GnN

Issuer:
CN=StartCom Class 2 Primary Intermediate Object CA, OU=Secure Digital Certificate Signing, O=StartCom Ltd., C=IL

Serial number:
0E0C

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
4/10/2010 2:19:31 PM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
98304:gw3G6wpVuLRgK29bChk6f8ZUpnggpahcBSy62BdKLhN4QPw:gw3opVuLRqmhlOUZggpyq2OdKLztI

Entry address:
0x354B

Entry point:
81, EC, D4, 02, 00, 00, 53, 55, 56, 57, 6A, 20, 33, ED, 5E, 89, 6C, 24, 18, C7, 44, 24, 10, D8, 84, 40, 00, 89, 6C, 24, 14, FF, 15, 30, 80, 40, 00, 68, 01, 80, 00, 00, FF, 15, B8, 80, 40, 00, 55, FF, 15, B0, 82, 40, 00, 6A, 08, A3, 98, 06, 47, 00, E8, 67, 27, 00, 00, 55, 68, B4, 02, 00, 00, A3, B0, 05, 47, 00, 8D, 44, 24, 38, 50, 55, 68, 1C, 86, 40, 00, FF, 15, 80, 81, 40, 00, 68, 04, 86, 40, 00, 68, A0, 85, 46, 00, E8, 35, 26, 00, 00, FF, 15, B4, 80, 40, 00, 50, BF, A0, 10, 4C, 00, 57, E8, 23, 26, 00, 00...
 
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Packer / compiler:
Nullsoft install system v2.x

Code size:
25 KB (25,600 bytes)

The file little_disk_cleaner_12_21_2012.exe has been seen being distributed by the following 2 URLs.

http://iweb.dl.sourceforge.net/project/lildiskcleaner/.../Little_Disk_Cleaner_12_21_2012.exe

http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/lildiskcleaner/.../Little_Disk_Cleaner_12_21_2012.exe

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