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prefetch.exe

Media Codecs Pack

White Sea Media

The application prefetch.exe, “Setup Application” by White Sea Media 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 Setup Factory installer. It is also typically executed from the user's temporary directory.
Publisher:
White Sea Media  (signed and verified)

Product:
Media Codecs Pack

Description:
Setup Application

Version:
1.0.4.0

MD5:
3cb1e5ef8031e6073944e500c59d93df

SHA-1:
5d9edfdb0472e93c2fcc8510a89c0a3509ae9321

SHA-256:
d4b88185fa546fe17ca12a8c25240bb8bfd7f61da4c85ca6ee497716bc02f040

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:
11/27/2024 7:29:01 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP (M)
16.7.24.13

File size:
6.3 MB (6,590,704 bytes)

Product version:
1.0.4.0

Copyright:
White Sea Media Copyright ?1992-2012 White Sea Media

Trademarks:
White Sea Media is a trademark of White Sea Media

Original file name:
suf_launch.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
Setup Factory

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\temp\prefetch.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
White Sea Media

Authority:
COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:
7/8/2013 3:00:00 AM

Valid to:
7/9/2014 2:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=White Sea Media, O=White Sea Media, STREET=4142 Mariner Blvd, L=Spring Hill, S=FL, PostalCode=34609, C=US

Issuer:
CN=COMODO Code Signing CA 2, O=COMODO CA Limited, L=Salford, S=Greater Manchester, C=GB

Serial number:
1FB235ACA7565BA27ADC702B2BD05C7F

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
12/16/2011 9:06:40 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
10.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
196608:RqDNRj6uGuBnQdDUw82SkOLRIOV8IxDdVy5dfJ:R+H2daLkW/8cdg5dh

Entry address:
0x29E1

Entry point:
E8, A6, 1D, 00, 00, E9, 89, FE, FF, FF, 8B, FF, 56, 57, 33, F6, BF, C8, AB, 40, 00, 83, 3C, F5, 54, A0, 40, 00, 01, 75, 1D, 8D, 04, F5, 50, A0, 40, 00, 89, 38, 68, A0, 0F, 00, 00, FF, 30, 83, C7, 18, FF, 15, C0, 70, 40, 00, 85, C0, 74, 0C, 46, 83, FE, 24, 7C, D3, 33, C0, 40, 5F, 5E, C3, 83, 24, F5, 50, A0, 40, 00, 00, 33, C0, EB, F1, 8B, FF, 53, 8B, 1D, C4, 70, 40, 00, 56, BE, 50, A0, 40, 00, 57, 8B, 3E, 85, FF, 74, 13, 83, 7E, 04, 01, 74, 0D, 57, FF, D3, 57, E8, 18, FD, FF, FF, 83, 26, 00, 59, 83, C6, 08...
 
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Entropy:
7.9758  (probably packed)

Code size:
22 KB (22,528 bytes)

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