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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:
a615685863271535867bb6a3f8f8a6d8

SHA-1:
8f40948d291e4a93182d5bffb6ba6c4430c99d69

SHA-256:
495b27a8d1a89bfe0934eacef82af79e3528619b4734c4ddce9b931f874c6034

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 3:30:58 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.SurfCany.Installer (M)
16.6.25.1

File size:
186.3 KB (190,752 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Surf Canyon Incorporated

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
1/21/2010 7:00:00 PM

Valid to:
1/31/2011 6:59:59 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 3:28:16 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
3072:FNyah0mJv456BOtG8ScQTmRAQP/SdH95XuFaso5d8aM+GXiMAaqeQ8I1kYuioe/:FwYiQfBTAPc5XuFG8rXE8I1kYuid/

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:
7.7937

Packer / compiler:
Nullsoft install system v2.x

Code size:
22.5 KB (23,040 bytes)

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