little_registry_cleaner_07_07_2013.exe

Little Registry Cleaner

Nicholas Hamnett

The application little_registry_cleaner_07_07_2013.exe, “Open source registry cleaner” by Nicholas Hamnett has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. The program is a setup application that uses the NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) installer. The file has been seen being downloaded from downloads.sourceforge.net.
Publisher:
Little Apps  (signed by Nicholas Hamnett)

Product:
Little Registry Cleaner

Description:
Open source registry cleaner

Version:
1.6.0

MD5:
7279b17eb90a9103a71030e2352bf1a4

SHA-1:
e592380ec759d93ca072357ed222b94d079caa4a

SHA-256:
f69603c9cefea9235e4cc76d8f63f2d6dd8753df92ef4bc9cc3d064edd7c36c4

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Analysis date:
11/24/2024 5:49:47 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
Win32.Generic.NicholasHamnett.Installer.Meta
15.9.1.11

File size:
5.3 MB (5,518,392 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)

Language:
Language Neutral

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\programs\little_registry_cleaner_07_07_2013.exe

Digital Signature
Authority:
StartCom Ltd.

Valid from:
4/11/2014 9:07:27 AM

Valid to:
4/10/2016 1:06:36 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 10:19:59 PM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
10.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
98304:REQ2MlXtYfgP9VK7QFb0tbtNGmLrTaSthr5iJjyFMseL/pKy:REQtmfgFVMQBStcmLfaercjoMsIpKy

Entry address:
0x39E3

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, 91, 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, C0, 82, 40, 00, 6A, 08, A3, B8, 2E, 47, 00, E8, 37, 2A, 00, 00, 55, 68, B4, 02, 00, 00, A3, D0, 2D, 47, 00, 8D, 44, 24, 38, 50, 55, 68, 1C, 93, 40, 00, FF, 15, 84, 81, 40, 00, 68, 04, 93, 40, 00, 68, C0, AD, 46, 00, E8, 19, 27, 00, 00, FF, 15, B4, 80, 40, 00, 50, BF, A0, 30, 4C, 00, 57, E8, 07, 27, 00, 00...
 
[+]

Entropy:
7.9974

Packer / compiler:
Nullsoft install system v2.x

Code size:
28 KB (28,672 bytes)

The file little_registry_cleaner_07_07_2013.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

Remove little_registry_cleaner_07_07_2013.exe - Powered by Reason Core Security