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vlc-media-player.exe

Free-mium GmbH

The application vlc-media-player.exe by Free-mium GmbH 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 file has been seen being downloaded from tmpfile10.s3.amazonaws.com.
Publisher:
Free-mium GmbH  (signed and verified)

MD5:
d6b7dabb803649cc8dd46d5b852afbaf

SHA-1:
60a8750f1228497978a0ece031b6f9f92c4e0c01

SHA-256:
51bbd66d309d9c1a724235b0df0311eb6fc926f9a49fa95377d916db93cad6ed

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Analysis date:
12/26/2024 11:43:04 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Freemium (M)
16.6.7.1

File size:
579.4 KB (593,280 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\vlc-media-player.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Free-mium GmbH

Authority:
thawte, Inc.

Valid from:
4/29/2015 2:00:00 AM

Valid to:
4/29/2016 1:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=Free-mium GmbH, O=Free-mium GmbH, L=Berlin, S=Berlin, C=DE

Issuer:
CN=thawte SHA256 Code Signing CA, O="thawte, Inc.", C=US

Serial number:
3AF8BC0C86618D48C79383622867AB5F

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
12/31/2015 6:01:36 AM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
10.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:d+0LnlZGDuYLOSS700X00jSnpwB2mzkFbUhq:HZ+u7740jSnpwB215UI

Entry address:
0x148BC

Entry point:
E8, B4, 7A, 00, 00, E9, 89, FE, FF, FF, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 83, EC, 20, 8B, 45, 08, 56, 57, 6A, 08, 59, BE, 60, 35, 46, 00, 8D, 7D, E0, F3, A5, 89, 45, F8, 8B, 45, 0C, 5F, 89, 45, FC, 5E, 85, C0, 74, 0C, F6, 00, 08, 74, 07, C7, 45, F4, 00, 40, 99, 01, 8D, 45, F4, 50, FF, 75, F0, FF, 75, E4, FF, 75, E0, FF, 15, C0, 31, 46, 00, C9, C2, 08, 00, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 81, EC, 28, 03, 00, 00, A3, 98, 62, 48, 00, 89, 0D, 94, 62, 48, 00, 89, 15, 90, 62, 48, 00, 89, 1D, 8C, 62, 48, 00, 89, 35, 88, 62, 48, 00, 89, 3D...
 
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Entropy:
6.9230

Code size:
389 KB (398,336 bytes)

The file vlc-media-player.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

https://tmpfile10.s3.amazonaws.com/download77/downloads/101843/.../vlc-media-player.exe

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