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searcher.exe

Artex Management S. A.

The application searcher.exe by Artex Management S. A has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. This is a setup program which is used to install the application. The file has been seen being downloaded from sendme8.ru.
Publisher:
Artex Management S. A.  (signed and verified)

Version:
1.0.0.0

MD5:
de9c15865bd1525adb127847d80a5118

SHA-1:
ae7ad5f7051c4f89d034c831a1eb0eb7ae60ebc7

SHA-256:
c6ad5f7adec37c48af626faf790460e2a9ec4462b78783f643cca21f07a16115

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:
11/15/2024 10:51:51 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.ArtexManagementSA (M)
15.7.17.12

File size:
6.6 MB (6,925,888 bytes)

Product version:
1.0.0.0

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\roaming\searcher\searcher.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Artex Management S. A.

Authority:
COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:
10/3/2014 3:00:00 AM

Valid to:
10/4/2015 2:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=Artex Management S. A., OU=Software Development, O=Artex Management S. A., STREET="50th Street , Global Plaza Tower, 19th Floor, Suite H", L=Panama City, PostalCode=12800, C=PA

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

Serial number:
00DDAF970527F5B24C6E53754F76D21CC3

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
7/10/2015 4:54:54 PM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.25

CTPH (ssdeep):
49152:ww8JimBYKW5OS3GS3wqWlgChG+WFwigAw6XKj3hKJ3ZsfbxsTrQkEkh5SDl5UCyX:wpsAkHChGVwivpsIrSvoD26Hz

Entry address:
0x4D2D48

Entry point:
55, 8B, EC, 83, C4, EC, 33, C0, 89, 45, EC, B8, 28, 3D, 8C, 00, E8, 9B, C8, B3, FF, 33, C0, 55, 68, CF, 2D, 8D, 00, 64, FF, 30, 64, 89, 20, 8B, 0D, 84, 33, 8F, 00, A1, EC, 3A, 8F, 00, 8B, 00, 8B, 15, 5C, E6, 8B, 00, E8, DD, F3, D0, FF, 8D, 55, EC, B8, 01, 00, 00, 00, E8, EC, 40, B3, FF, 8B, 45, EC, BA, E8, 2D, 8D, 00, E8, 33, 84, B3, FF, 74, 0E, A1, 84, 33, 8F, 00, 8B, 00, E8, F9, D9, FE, FF, EB, 0C, A1, 84, 33, 8F, 00, 8B, 00, E8, 2B, DF, FE, FF, 33, C0, 5A, 59, 59, 64, 89, 10, 68, D6, 2D, 8D, 00, 8D, 45...
 
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Developed / compiled with:
Microsoft Visual C++

Code size:
4.8 MB (5,053,440 bytes)

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

http://sendme8.ru/.../85e5509ae35893d216af1d6804130abc.exe

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