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nfsunderwater8.exe

Under Water 8 New Free Screensaver

Gekkon Ltd

The application nfsunderwater8.exe, “Under Water 8 New Free Screensaver Setup ” by Gekkon has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. This is a self-extracting archive and installer and has been known to bundle potentially unwanted software. The file has been seen being downloaded from downloads.newfreescreensavers.com.
Publisher:
Gekkon Ltd.   (signed by Gekkon Ltd)

Product:
Under Water 8 New Free Screensaver

Description:
Under Water 8 New Free Screensaver Setup

MD5:
d57c3e8815c4551d8141d36ace4f3866

SHA-1:
a8a0a7dc59a539fe730312b425fb2e6daa6b15dc

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

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:
11/23/2024 10:11:59 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP (M)
16.8.1.13

File size:
5.5 MB (5,782,760 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
Language Neutral

Common path:
C:\Documents and Settings\{user}\My documents\downloads\nfsunderwater8.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Gekkon Ltd

Authority:
GlobalSign nv-sa

Valid from:
8/9/2010 12:35:50 PM

Valid to:
8/9/2013 12:35:46 PM

Subject:
E=is@newfreescreensavers.com, CN=Gekkon Ltd, O=Gekkon Ltd, L=Mahe, S=Seychelles, C=SC

Issuer:
CN=GlobalSign ObjectSign CA, OU=ObjectSign CA, O=GlobalSign nv-sa, C=BE

Serial number:
0100000000012A56A1781E

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
10/9/2012 10:48:22 AM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.25

CTPH (ssdeep):
98304:j7XVyObB9+XYzUH4pnD5dySnAPkUM9zenK0hewcxJkFtgUEn8IqCd6c90RiyaW7K:jZySaXYPD5bnA86nTHGGK/Dd6ceWW7

Entry address:
0xF3BC

Entry point:
55, 8B, EC, 83, C4, A4, 53, 56, 57, 33, C0, 89, 45, C4, 89, 45, C0, 89, 45, A4, 89, 45, D0, 89, 45, C8, 89, 45, CC, 89, 45, D4, 89, 45, D8, 89, 45, EC, B8, 64, ED, 40, 00, E8, E8, 71, FF, FF, 33, C0, 55, 68, 89, FA, 40, 00, 64, FF, 30, 64, 89, 20, 33, D2, 55, 68, 45, FA, 40, 00, 64, FF, 32, 64, 89, 22, A1, 48, 3B, 41, 00, E8, BE, F7, FF, FF, E8, 65, F3, FF, FF, 8D, 55, EC, 33, C0, E8, F7, C3, FF, FF, 8B, 55, EC, B8, 4C, 66, 41, 00, E8, 6A, 58, FF, FF, 6A, 02, 6A, 00, 6A, 01, 8B, 0D, 4C, 66, 41, 00, B2, 01...
 
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Entropy:
7.9950

Developed / compiled with:
Microsoft Visual C++

Code size:
59 KB (60,416 bytes)

The file nfsunderwater8.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

http://downloads.newfreescreensavers.com/screensavers/.../nfsUnderWater8.exe

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