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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 Nullsoft Scriptable Install System installer.
Publisher:
Participatory Culture Foundation  (signed and verified)

MD5:
ccf38aab7a3b1293a2c2a4cdf91508bf

SHA-1:
c4242ce2f086735bacfd0d5592609f4764d04461

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:
12/26/2024 4:37:36 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Particip.Installer (M)
16.4.1.12

File size:
45.8 MB (48,057,520 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
Nullsoft Scriptable Install System

Common path:
C:\Documents and Settings\{user}\My documents\downloads\programs\miro_installer.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Participatory Culture Foundation

Authority:
Starfield Technologies, Inc.

Valid from:
12/10/2012 2:53:33 PM

Valid to:
11/12/2014 8:11:52 PM

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

Issuer:
CN=Starfield Secure Certificate Authority - G2, OU=http://certs.starfieldtech.com/repository/, O="Starfield Technologies, Inc.", L=Scottsdale, S=Arizona, C=US

Serial number:
4B7A89C3505610

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
12/6/2009 12:50:41 AM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
786432:p1fgiKbF42K5u/lhIwYeBYCBaCvWm6tj7JSLOTAHKyERkNX9TQ5hWWF:Hgzh49ghTYeBvamWmsj7JS8A0kXc58y

Entry address:
0x30CB

Entry point:
77, 0A, 8D, 1D, C1, D3, 89, 96, 03, C8, 2C, EE, FE, C9, 0F, AF, CB, 84, E3, C7, C1, 26, 5C, 38, 5B, 85, F7, 84, D5, 87, D6, 88, DB, 8B, F9, 0F, AF, D5, E8, 19, 00, 00, 00, 71, 01, F3, F7, C7, C8, F0, BE, 96, F3, 03, D6, 8D, 3D, D9, 38, 87, 81, 47, 69, D8, 9D, FB, BD, D9, 5D, F3, 88, D5, 86, FD, 21, DE, 81, EB, C7, A7, E6, 0E, 0F, BF, CA, F7, C5, 6A, 93, 6A, 8A, 2B, C7, 81, C5, 43, E2, 03, 00, 81, FB, 95, 95, 00, 00, 75, 01, F2, 81, ED, 98, A2, 00, 00, F6, C3, D3, 86, EC, 0F, BE, C2, 35, 25, A0, 8C, 39, BF...
 
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Entropy:
7.9999  (probably packed)

Code size:
22.5 KB (23,040 bytes)

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