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Phrase Professor

The application setup.exe by Phrase Professor has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 10 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) installer. The file has been seen being downloaded from d3il7h8kq18h01.cloudfront.net.
Publisher:
PhraseProfessor  (signed by Phrase Professor)

Product:
PP

Description:
PP Setup

Version:
1.10.0.22

MD5:
fc54f894428adc803692213642756a89

SHA-1:
c4b7154b4840572423be460f3721bb8a46d254b0

SHA-256:
154bc0838959da43eba8d934be9ad2f3b13366feff5a5ebf922899577ede972f

Scanner detections:
10 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Analysis date:
11/27/2024 9:30:48 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

avast!
Win32:Vitruvian-B [PUP]
2014.9-150817

AVG
Generic
2016.0.3015

Baidu Antivirus
Hacktool.Win64.NetFilter
4.0.3.15817

Dr.Web
Threat.Undefined
9.0.1.05190

ESET NOD32
multiple threats
7.0.302.0

IKARUS anti.virus
not-a-virus:NetTool.NetFilter
t3scan.1.9.5.0

Kaspersky
not-a-virus:NetTool.Win64.NetFilter
15.0.0.543

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.PhraseProfessor.A
v2015.08.17.03

Panda Antivirus
Generic Suspicious
15.08.17.03

Sophos
Generic PUA ME (PUA)
4.98

File size:
1.1 MB (1,190,072 bytes)

Product version:
1.10.0.22

Copyright:
(c) 2015 PhraseProfessor

Original file name:
PhraseProfessor-setup.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)

Language:
Language Neutral

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Phrase Professor

Authority:
GlobalSign nv-sa

Valid from:
6/22/2015 7:12:16 PM

Valid to:
6/22/2017 7:12:16 PM

Subject:
E=support@phraseprofessor.com, CN=Phrase Professor, O=Phrase Professor, L=San Diego, S=California, C=US

Issuer:
CN=GlobalSign CodeSigning CA - G2, O=GlobalSign nv-sa, C=BE

Serial number:
11212ECCBE8A08CD220DFDB8DF22D0081744

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
12/5/2009 8:52:06 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:00cwikOZdiIepv8T1gI1IfYNIPu0mVlfcnCArkuKiqr8K:00nOSh8T1kfYnVJcnCAr1A8K

Entry address:
0x323C

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, 6F, 44, 00, E8, 09, 2C, 00, 00, A3, A4, 6E, 44, 00, 53, 8D, 44, 24, 34, 68, 60, 01, 00, 00, 50, 53, 68, 58, 9C, 42, 00, FF, 15, 58, 71, 40, 00, 68, B8, 91, 40, 00, 68, A0, 2E, 44, 00, E8, BC, 28, 00, 00, FF, 15, B0, 70, 40, 00, BF, 00, F0, 46, 00, 50, 57, E8, AA, 28, 00, 00...
 
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Packer / compiler:
Nullsoft install system v2.x

Code size:
23 KB (23,552 bytes)

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

http://d3il7h8kq18h01.cloudfront.net/.../PhraseProfessor-setup-1.10.0.22.exe

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