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poolsharksinstaller.exe

Sanlis Ltd

The application poolsharksinstaller.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 pool-sharks.software.informer.com and multiple other hosts.
Publisher:
Sanlis Ltd  (signed and verified)

MD5:
fcb0e1ce1a28e708ae3b449ab2d78fd1

SHA-1:
7c666a175b35f8674f96abdd55b946a06e05a46e

SHA-256:
88f5abb5a88e5b103cb1d59f56b146cc6cefb05340aca9470c9a60e837761814

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:
11/12/2024 7:03:12 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Sanlis.T
14.11.27.4

File size:
5.3 MB (5,587,112 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Sanlis Ltd

Authority:
Thawte, Inc.

Valid from:
12/7/2010 1:00:00 AM

Valid to:
12/31/2011 12:59:59 AM

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

Issuer:
CN=Thawte Code Signing CA - G2, O="Thawte, Inc.", C=US

Serial number:
3EBB18A042DD03E5D107794DF4ECA9BD

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
12/20/2008 1:41:03 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
98304:veGPEHOthhLNNt+cb6wzPOk1bMV4+eA0W9Wn70HcrdXV29fC578:vetAzNNtn6wzPpNcZ7NAYHwduC578

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 poolsharksinstaller.exe has been seen being distributed by the following 2 URLs.

http://pool-sharks.software.informer.com/.../

http://www.poolsharks.com/PoolSharksinstaller.exe

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