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miro_installer.exe

Participatory Culture Foundation

The application miro_installer.exe by Participatory Culture Foundation has been detected as adware 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.
Publisher:
Participatory Culture Foundation  (signed and verified)

MD5:
b894277966161d86d1ecbc1fd1c85553

SHA-1:
18a52054788f2fdaeb5fb7af8ef9bda96c129770

SHA-256:
9424d9ff279aadff12eb0072791767df0a023f2a65369ab6d157e4348e66fdf6

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Adware

Note:
Our current pool of anti-malware engines have not currently detected this file, however based on our own detection heuristics we feel that this file is unwanted.

Analysis date:
12/25/2024 6:48:22 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.ParticipatoryCultureFoundation.Installer (M)
15.7.25.15

File size:
38.7 MB (40,612,792 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Participatory Culture Foundation

Authority:
Starfield Technologies, Inc.

Valid from:
2/19/2010 9:14:47 PM

Valid to:
2/19/2012 9:14:47 PM

Subject:
CN=Participatory Culture Foundation, O=Participatory Culture Foundation, L=Boston, S=MA, C=US

Issuer:
SERIALNUMBER=10688435, CN=Starfield Secure Certification Authority, OU=http://certificates.starfieldtech.com/repository, O="Starfield Technologies, Inc.", L=Scottsdale, S=Arizona, C=US

Serial number:
6C64CDD538DD

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
12/5/2009 11:50:41 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
786432:Bj7E1ZExW3L+BGwI+vXdmVwzdSjRJ1ntgILDI80VUFHameobPr1uMQltye:9w1Z6GwI+vt4jRJ1xLD2U9lDQl

Entry address:
0x30CB

Entry point:
81, EC, 80, 01, 00, 00, 53, 55, 56, 33, DB, 57, 89, 5C, 24, 18, C7, 44, 24, 10, 60, 91, 40, 00, 33, F6, C6, 44, 24, 14, 20, FF, 15, 30, 70, 40, 00, 68, 01, 80, 00, 00, FF, 15, B0, 70, 40, 00, 53, FF, 15, 7C, 72, 40, 00, 6A, 08, A3, 38, 3F, 42, 00, E8, F1, 2B, 00, 00, A3, 84, 3E, 42, 00, 53, 8D, 44, 24, 34, 68, 60, 01, 00, 00, 50, 53, 68, 30, F4, 41, 00, FF, 15, 58, 71, 40, 00, 68, 54, 91, 40, 00, 68, 80, 36, 42, 00, E8, A4, 28, 00, 00, FF, 15, AC, 70, 40, 00, BF, 00, 90, 42, 00, 50, 57, E8, 92, 28, 00, 00...
 
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Packer / compiler:
Nullsoft install system v2.x

Code size:
22.5 KB (23,040 bytes)

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