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poolsharks.exe

Sanlis Ltd

The application poolsharks.exe by Sanlis 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 cdn.portalprogramas-download.com.
Publisher:
Sanlis Ltd  (signed and verified)

MD5:
fefc31c6725a504d55ce7279ac832213

SHA-1:
c8bfc0e644b9f1115759806d9c0dda4facfcd0cd

SHA-256:
6e842dcff525a5638de9d9bdde2d565c6c1158023fd8491b849a39c5cc16dc95

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:
12/26/2024 3:32:35 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Sanlis.Installer (M)
16.1.30.19

File size:
5.4 MB (5,670,584 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Sanlis Ltd

Authority:
Thawte Consulting (Pty) Ltd.

Valid from:
12/29/2008 7:00:00 PM

Valid to:
12/30/2009 6:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Sanlis Ltd, OU=SECURE APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT, O=Sanlis Ltd, L=Paphos, S=Paphos, C=CY

Issuer:
CN=Thawte Code Signing CA, O=Thawte Consulting (Pty) Ltd., C=ZA

Serial number:
18B23CAFC0AEE77200AF2E3EBC9C1294

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
12/20/2008 7:41:03 AM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
98304:B4E7eCaV9ZE43e5inE1CrpkatPhBu5nplu55eyznegy9ic2V+eVQi:6t/LYkaCrpkwhBulplqeMn09ic2V+eVv

Entry address:
0x3233

Entry point:
81, EC, 80, 01, 00, 00, 53, 55, 56, 33, DB, 57, 89, 5C, 24, 18, C7, 44, 24, 10, 30, 91, 40, 00, 33, F6, C6, 44, 24, 14, 20, FF, 15, 30, 70, 40, 00, 68, 01, 80, 00, 00, FF, 15, B4, 70, 40, 00, 53, FF, 15, 7C, 72, 40, 00, 6A, 08, A3, 58, 3F, 42, 00, E8, 02, 2C, 00, 00, A3, A4, 3E, 42, 00, 53, 8D, 44, 24, 34, 68, 60, 01, 00, 00, 50, 53, 68, 58, F4, 41, 00, FF, 15, 58, 71, 40, 00, 68, B8, 91, 40, 00, 68, A0, 36, 42, 00, E8, B9, 28, 00, 00, FF, 15, B0, 70, 40, 00, BF, 00, 90, 42, 00, 50, 57, E8, A7, 28, 00, 00...
 
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Packer / compiler:
Nullsoft install system v2.x

Code size:
23 KB (23,552 bytes)

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

http://cdn.portalprogramas-download.com/d/.../Pool-Sharks

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