the 4000 english words essential for an educated vocabula.exe

Closed Joint-Stock Company

The application the 4000 english words essential for an educated vocabula.exe by Closed Joint-Stock Company has been detected as adware by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. The file has been seen being downloaded from installdownloads.com.
Publisher:
Closed Joint-Stock Company   (signed and verified)

MD5:
e1610952c9e3d153eddfa55c722a2d8b

SHA-1:
91d52c7120649ceb7232836079e4eb8f2c9bc419

SHA-256:
cd35128eb8689765d5a6e219b2221741f80f630faf6335591263fb8057a3c6c5

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Adware

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:
11/15/2024 3:51:42 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.ClosedJointStockCompany (M)
16.2.19.14

File size:
2.2 MB (2,303,648 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\the 4000 english words essential for an educated vocabula.exe

Digital Signature
Authority:
COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:
9/11/2013 2:00:00 AM

Valid to:
9/11/2016 1:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN="Closed Joint-Stock Company ""V.X. Technocom", O="Closed Joint-Stock Company ""V.X. Technocom", STREET="Staromonetnyi per. 14, bld. 2", L=Moscow, S=Moscow, PostalCode=119180, C=RU

Issuer:
CN=COMODO Code Signing CA 2, O=COMODO CA Limited, L=Salford, S=Greater Manchester, C=GB

Serial number:
422C9081573539C78689D8F203970268

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
3/17/2014 5:20:04 PM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.25

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:NFxXMEXzgMOBBcSym1N+PicYH4UDudmsn14mBFgcma4QorNzdw3x/RgROWrDuFmV:NG2SX+Pi3YnQc14RA4QorHcZdn4Y4KQx

Entry address:
0xA7C48

Entry point:
55, 8B, EC, 83, C4, F0, B8, 40, 16, 4A, 00, E8, B0, 22, F6, FF, A1, FC, A0, 4A, 00, 8B, 00, E8, C0, 71, FF, FF, A1, FC, A0, 4A, 00, 8B, 00, B2, 01, E8, EE, 8E, FF, FF, A1, FC, A0, 4A, 00, 8B, 00, BA, B8, 7C, 4A, 00, E8, BD, 6B, FF, FF, 8B, 0D, E8, 9E, 4A, 00, A1, FC, A0, 4A, 00, 8B, 00, 8B, 15, CC, 0F, 4A, 00, E8, A1, 71, FF, FF, A1, FC, A0, 4A, 00, 8B, 00, E8, E5, 72, FF, FF, E8, D4, E1, F5, FF, B0, 04, 02, 00, FF, FF, FF, FF, 02, 00, 00, 00, 53, 00, 49, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00...
 
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Entropy:
6.7837

Developed / compiled with:
Microsoft Visual C++

Code size:
664 KB (679,936 bytes)

The file the 4000 english words essential for an educated vocabula.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

http://installdownloads.com/.../dl.php?channel=7272&rk=56836013