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rufus-2.8p.exe

Rufus

Akeo Consulting (http://akeo.ie)

The executable rufus-2.8p.exe has been detected as malware by 10 anti-virus scanners. This is a setup program which is used to install the application. Infected by an entry-point obscuring polymorphic file infector which will create a peer-to-peer botnet and receives URLs of additional files to download. The file has been seen being downloaded from rufus.akeo.ie.
Publisher:
Akeo Consulting (http://akeo.ie)

Product:
Rufus

Version:
2.8.886

MD5:
350301c785edf66f7a8c3ad7e4fe4784

SHA-1:
0bfe7eaf239e823d32d450dedb21b250516a6df3

SHA-256:
5c22a987c57f9570a2c99ca8ef6866554cf13c609a06434caee047f4a661ed48

Scanner detections:
10 / 68

Status:
File is infected by a Virus

Explanation:
The file is infected by a polymorphic file infector virus.

Analysis date:
12/26/2024 10:51:35 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

avast!
Win32:SaliCode
160518-2

AVG
Win32/Sality
2015.0.4568

Dr.Web
Win32.Sector.30
9.0.1.05190

Emsisoft Anti-Malware
Win32.Sality
16.06.01

ESET NOD32
Win32/Sality.NBA virus
8.0.319.0

F-Prot
W32/Sality.gen2
4.6.5.141

Kaspersky
Virus.Win32.Sality
15.0.0.562

McAfee
Virus.W32/Sality.gen.z
18.0.204.0

Microsoft Security Essentials
Threat.Undefined
1.223.281.0

Norman
Win32.Sality.3
19.05.2016 05:17:13

File size:
936.3 KB (958,720 bytes)

Product version:
2.8.886

Copyright:
© 2011-2016 Pete Batard (GPL v3)

Trademarks:
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html

Original file name:
rufus.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
Language Neutral

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\rufus-2.8p.exe

File PE Metadata
OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.26

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:vOZICj9YJyWdy5K+cTvG2JD1pM7bvQGwuL:vOZBjEyWduK+GHJ5pM7szS

Entry address:
0x262290

Entry point:
84, E3, 0F, AF, F5, 8D, 1D, 65, 9B, 53, 0A, 15, 56, 74, 56, 61, FE, CF, 20, EE, 8A, D6, EB, 0C, 8A, F5, 3D, EF, D8, 84, D1, 15, BB, EF, 87, C8, 3B, EE, C6, C4, D3, 8B, F6, F7, C7, 28, 42, 76, BC, 50, 53, 80, C9, A1, 89, DB, 0F, AF, EB, 8D, 1D, B0, 60, 53, 22, 80, C3, DF, E8, 00, 00, 00, 00, F6, C6, 4D, 0F, AF, F6, F6, C7, E2, F2, 88, E7, F2, FE, CD, 75, 05, FE, C8, 84, C6, 46, 76, 07, 80, D1, B7, 89, F7, B5, FD, 81, DF, B3, 0C, 7F, 27, 0F, BF, FB, 85, D1, 2B, FF, 03, F8, 8D, 0F, 8D, 3D, A4, A4, 69, 7D, 0F...
 
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Entropy:
7.9478  (probably packed)

Code size:
812 KB (831,488 bytes)

The file rufus-2.8p.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

https://rufus.akeo.ie/.../rufus-2.8p.exe

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