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little_privacy_cleaner_06_25_2013.exe

Little Privacy Cleaner

Nicholas Hamnett

The application little_privacy_cleaner_06_25_2013.exe, “Open source privacy cleaner” by Nicholas Hamnett has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 8 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 getlittleapps.com.
Publisher:
Little Apps  (signed by Nicholas Hamnett)

Product:
Little Privacy Cleaner

Description:
Open source privacy cleaner

Version:
0.1.1

MD5:
76e52e788a2578ee11e37cc2cad554bd

SHA-1:
32ff04cc04a643d63db73f42815e9d02ac111eab

SHA-256:
64da8bd0b264ed01d965f0b9e91de5a7c86772a2b118e0fb351071ba8fb49e18

Scanner detections:
8 / 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 5:35:31 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

AVG
OpenCandy
2015.0.3245

Baidu Antivirus
Adware.Win32.OpenCandy
4.0.3.141229

ESET NOD32
Win32/OpenCandy (variant)
8.10669

K7 AntiVirus
Trojan
13.185.13888

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.OpenCandy
v2014.12.29.10

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Optional.NicholasHamnett.b
14.12.29.22

Sophos
Generic PUA DC
4.98

Trend Micro House Call
Suspicious_GEN.F47V1103
7.2.363

File size:
4.8 MB (5,021,896 bytes)

Copyright:
Copyright © Little Apps 2008-2013

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_privacy_cleaner_06_25_2013.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:
2/24/2012 8:20:04 PM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
10.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
98304:suWoU+9RkuE7hF9jYz3C+7dfIumaz738QbIczbF//y53Rmy:suWPIk56z3xJf38lczw5Bv

Entry address:
0x38AF

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, 68, A2, 40, 00, 89, 6C, 24, 14, FF, 15, 30, 90, 40, 00, 68, 01, 80, 00, 00, FF, 15, B4, 90, 40, 00, 55, FF, 15, C0, 92, 40, 00, 6A, 08, A3, 98, EB, 47, 00, E8, 36, 2A, 00, 00, 55, 68, B4, 02, 00, 00, A3, B0, EA, 47, 00, 8D, 44, 24, 38, 50, 55, 68, 64, A2, 40, 00, FF, 15, 84, 91, 40, 00, 68, 4C, A2, 40, 00, 68, A0, 6A, 47, 00, E8, 18, 27, 00, 00, FF, 15, B0, 90, 40, 00, 50, BF, A0, F0, 4C, 00, 57, E8, 06, 27, 00, 00...
 
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Packer / compiler:
Nullsoft install system v2.x

Code size:
29 KB (29,696 bytes)

The file little_privacy_cleaner_06_25_2013.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

http://getlittleapps.com/.../installer-latest.exe

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