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vid-saver-bg.exe

Vid-Saver

Awesome Apps

This is part of a distribution package that is classified as adware distributed by 50onRed. This adware is used to interact with the installed web browsers and inject ads and modify the default search and homepages. The application vid-saver-bg.exe by Awesome Apps has been detected as adware by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat.
Publisher:
215 Apps  (signed by Awesome Apps)

Product:
Vid-Saver

Description:
Vid-Saver exe

Version:
1.1.151.48

MD5:
141b5bba2e55e36835d87653b61ddaeb

SHA-1:
ba5a010ab7ad7daf55f55c1b78076aa68b904590

SHA-256:
b1a1467f92091e964a1e71cb9cab54c767e921275a33995921012eced55d2803

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:
12/24/2024 12:56:11 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.50OnRed (M)
17.1.12.18

File size:
886.4 KB (907,648 bytes)

Product version:
1.1.151.48

Copyright:
Copyright 2011

Original file name:
Vid-Saver.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\Program Files\vid-saver\vid-saver-bg.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Awesome Apps

Authority:
Thawte, Inc.

Valid from:
8/28/2012 8:00:00 PM

Valid to:
8/29/2013 7:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Awesome Apps, O=Awesome Apps, L=Philadelphia, S=Pennsylvania, C=US

Issuer:
CN=Thawte Code Signing CA - G2, O="Thawte, Inc.", C=US

Serial number:
3D0C9CCF6A7D44B9FDA1963A424319BA

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
9/6/2012 6:20:38 AM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
10.0

Entry address:
0x823C9

Entry point:
E8, 30, A8, 00, 00, E9, 89, FE, FF, FF, 2D, A4, 03, 00, 00, 74, 22, 83, E8, 04, 74, 17, 83, E8, 0D, 74, 0C, 48, 74, 03, 33, C0, C3, B8, 04, 04, 00, 00, C3, B8, 12, 04, 00, 00, C3, B8, 04, 08, 00, 00, C3, B8, 11, 04, 00, 00, C3, 8B, FF, 56, 57, 8B, F0, 68, 01, 01, 00, 00, 33, FF, 8D, 46, 1C, 57, 50, E8, 77, D7, FF, FF, 33, C0, 0F, B7, C8, 8B, C1, 89, 7E, 04, 89, 7E, 08, 89, 7E, 0C, C1, E1, 10, 0B, C1, 8D, 7E, 10, AB, AB, AB, B9, 78, A0, 4D, 00, 83, C4, 0C, 8D, 46, 1C, 2B, CE, BF, 01, 01, 00, 00, 8A, 14, 01...
 
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Entropy:
6.5461

Code size:
739.5 KB (757,248 bytes)

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