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Rufus

Akeo Consulting (http://akeo.ie)

The executable rufus.exe has been detected as malware by 8 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:
eb7b043ee241bee845fe0e9a55c59e44

SHA-1:
fc1b4dfb89bf9b7201cfe2d7eafdc7fef1ebe91f

SHA-256:
4017991f28455974dbd9ef28e050eb61f9b010338dc5b532de53bf56dd0011ae

Scanner detections:
8 / 68

Status:
File is infected by a Virus

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

Analysis date:
11/23/2024 11:50:32 PM UTC  (a few moments ago)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

avast!
Win32:SaliCode
160503-1

AVG
Win32/Sality
2015.0.4604

Emsisoft Anti-Malware
Win32.Sality
11.5.0.6191

ESET NOD32
Win32/Sality.NBA virus
8.0.319.0

F-Prot
W32/Sality.gen2
4.6.5.141

Microsoft Security Essentials
Threat.Undefined
1.225.749.0

Norman
Win32.Sality.3
28.05.2016 15:32:18

VIPRE Antivirus
Threat.4758034
50516

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.exe

File PE Metadata
OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.26

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:VOZICj9YJyWdy5K+cTvG2JD1pM7bvQx0lEY:VOZBjEyWduK+GHJ5pM7sqF

Entry address:
0x262290

Entry point:
0F, AF, D6, F7, C7, 01, 17, 3D, 15, 74, 08, 8D, 0D, 4F, 54, D8, 52, 89, F5, 85, ED, 69, CF, BA, D2, 75, F6, 05, 66, A5, 00, 00, 2D, 2D, 05, 00, 00, 3B, CE, 70, 02, 84, EB, C7, C2, 4B, 67, DB, A7, 08, E3, 56, 8A, F9, E8, 58, 00, 00, 00, 86, F2, 84, EF, BB, 90, 98, 00, 00, 3B, F5, 81, F3, 49, 92, 00, 00, 0F, AF, D5, 81, F3, 7B, 08, 00, 00, 0F, BE, EF, 81, FB, BA, 2C, 00, 00, 76, 05, 0F, CA, 80, CC, 1D, 74, 06, F7, C5, 49, 30, 30, 62, BE, 4A, 03, 04, 00, 84, F1, 81, EE, FB, FD, 03, 00, 89, D0, 2B, DE, 20, D9...
 
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Code size:
812 KB (831,488 bytes)

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

https://rufus.akeo.ie/.../rufus.exe

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