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shareazav8.exe

Discordia Limited

The application shareazav8.exe, “Shareaza ” by Discordia Limited 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 download.cdn.shareazaweb.com.
Publisher:
Discordia, LTD   (signed by Discordia Limited)

Description:
Shareaza

Version:
8.0.0.119406

MD5:
d2ff5073cd4b0c9dd065959cdadbcff1

SHA-1:
ef012f86cc97d718b5234e08e77eb4a0124f4a26

SHA-256:
17477e5051f7f9de1e0a24d178218e78abadcfc1aba021ce15fc25ac3b0c91fa

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:
12/26/2024 12:07:38 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.DiscordiaLimited.K
14.9.29.3

File size:
2.2 MB (2,354,784 bytes)

Copyright:
Copyright (c) 2011

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Discordia Limited

Authority:
Thawte Consulting (Pty) Ltd.

Valid from:
6/23/2010 3:00:00 AM

Valid to:
7/15/2012 2:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=Discordia Limited, OU=SECURE APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT, O=Discordia Limited, L=Limassol, S=Limassol, C=CY

Issuer:
CN=Thawte Code Signing CA, O=Thawte Consulting (Pty) Ltd., C=ZA

Serial number:
365134344F55842D5CCE133A8C629064

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
4/15/2009 10:43:49 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
7.10

CTPH (ssdeep):
49152:LwMLUk3D0XqNlK+yMzagRBtcd4iZnHyVUBB4wtV:LwMLUL6NQxEaufitHQ7+V

Entry address:
0x12A70

Entry point:
6A, 60, 68, B8, A2, 41, 00, E8, C0, 03, 00, 00, BF, 94, 00, 00, 00, 8B, C7, E8, 28, 18, 00, 00, 89, 65, E8, 8B, F4, 89, 3E, 56, FF, 15, E8, A0, 41, 00, 8B, 4E, 10, 89, 0D, 24, 0D, 42, 00, 8B, 46, 04, A3, 30, 0D, 42, 00, 8B, 56, 08, 89, 15, 34, 0D, 42, 00, 8B, 76, 0C, 81, E6, FF, 7F, 00, 00, 89, 35, 28, 0D, 42, 00, 83, F9, 02, 74, 0C, 81, CE, 00, 80, 00, 00, 89, 35, 28, 0D, 42, 00, C1, E0, 08, 03, C2, A3, 2C, 0D, 42, 00, 33, F6, 56, 8B, 3D, A8, A1, 41, 00, FF, D7, 66, 81, 38, 4D, 5A, 75, 1F, 8B, 48, 3C, 03...
 
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Entropy:
7.9161

Developed / compiled with:
Microsoft Visual C++ v7.0

Code size:
96.5 KB (98,816 bytes)

The file shareazav8.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

http://download.cdn.shareazaweb.com/r/cdn/.../ShareazaV8.exe

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