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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. It is also typically executed from the user's temporary directory. The file has been seen being downloaded from www.surfcanyon.com.
Publisher:
Surf Canyon Incorporated  (signed and verified)

MD5:
1b4acb727c2ae1f8830bb9d58d71f5b6

SHA-1:
d5d44fcd8c47eddf8e3a78132cbad4fda8820951

SHA-256:
41b5ce5efcae077b3c2e84e46c3dc3bbaf51ed88bd3bbb27e899837754e4619f

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 10:23:57 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.SurfCanyonorporated.Installer (M)
15.10.6.1

File size:
564.3 KB (577,808 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\temp\{random}.tmp\surfcanyon.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Surf Canyon Incorporated

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
12/13/2013 8:00:00 AM

Valid to:
3/14/2017 7:59:59 AM

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

Issuer:
CN=VeriSign Class 3 Code Signing 2010 CA, OU=Terms of use at https://www.verisign.com/rpa (c)10, OU=VeriSign Trust Network, O="VeriSign, Inc.", C=US

Serial number:
1F54086556A315E8D932AFD0318766A3

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
12/6/2009 6:50:46 AM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:4KuJloh7J/E4h12ZGWPl0+Ga1PxK6+c5O/iSRbpRWswi3XH:4KuLoT/EIIZGWPq0xc6+cAjRbpRvz3

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, 3F, 42, 00, E8, 09, 2C, 00, 00, A3, A4, 3E, 42, 00, 53, 8D, 44, 24, 34, 68, 60, 01, 00, 00, 50, 53, 68, 58, F4, 41, 00, FF, 15, 58, 71, 40, 00, 68, B8, 91, 40, 00, 68, A0, 36, 42, 00, E8, BC, 28, 00, 00, FF, 15, B0, 70, 40, 00, BF, 00, 90, 42, 00, 50, 57, E8, AA, 28, 00, 00...
 
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Entropy:
7.9619

Packer / compiler:
Nullsoft install system v2.x

Code size:
23 KB (23,552 bytes)

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

https://www.surfcanyon.com/.../surfcanyon.exe

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