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surfcanyon.exe

Surf Canyon Incorporated

The application surfcanyon.exe by Surf Canyon has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. The program is a setup application that uses the NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) installer.
Publisher:
Surf Canyon Incorporated  (signed and verified)

MD5:
a88ba03e2015d2b089e01d7a415ddcb7

SHA-1:
2b19e56107871741a800deb90ae1fc52124fda7f

SHA-256:
b531fb9293891a69decceb066644efadec8f680c566e99d9e7d8a3dd60edb179

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:
11/30/2024 3:38:53 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.SurfCanyonorporated.Installer (M)
16.2.8.17

File size:
185.7 KB (190,120 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\software\surfcanyon.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Surf Canyon Incorporated

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
1/21/2010 6:00:00 PM

Valid to:
1/31/2011 5:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Surf Canyon Incorporated, OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O=Surf Canyon Incorporated, L=Oakland, S=California, C=US

Issuer:
CN=VeriSign Class 3 Code Signing 2009-2 CA, OU=Terms of use at https://www.verisign.com/rpa (c)09, OU=VeriSign Trust Network, O="VeriSign, Inc.", C=US

Serial number:
1D15D5E06DE7741EDAA0653F5FCC041D

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
11/20/2008 2:28:16 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
3072:eNyah0mJv459z75GyQOXpGMB0vgdYuyQrWK+ows2rFKMZjVKI3un6JuQfx+67xI1:ewYPOZGMauTRYFKMZjsIe6IQgAs0rd0

Entry address:
0x3225

Entry point:
81, EC, 80, 01, 00, 00, 53, 55, 56, 33, DB, 57, 89, 5C, 24, 18, C7, 44, 24, 10, 28, 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, 3F, 42, 00, E8, 3B, 2B, 00, 00, A3, A4, 3E, 42, 00, 53, 8D, 44, 24, 34, 68, 60, 01, 00, 00, 50, 53, 68, 50, F4, 41, 00, FF, 15, 58, 71, 40, 00, 68, B0, 91, 40, 00, 68, A0, 36, 42, 00, E8, F2, 27, 00, 00, FF, 15, B0, 70, 40, 00, BF, 00, 90, 42, 00, 50, 57, E8, E0, 27, 00, 00...
 
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Entropy:
7.7929

Packer / compiler:
Nullsoft install system v2.x

Code size:
22.5 KB (23,040 bytes)

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