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winsweeper2011.exe

WinSweeper

Celeritas Software Company

The application winsweeper2011.exe, “WinSweeper Setup ” by Celeritas Software Company 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 Inno Setup installer. The file has been seen being downloaded from winsweeper.software.informer.com.
Publisher:
Celeritas Software Company   (signed by Celeritas Software Company)

Product:
WinSweeper

Description:
WinSweeper Setup

Version:
1.2.61

MD5:
fe41a4bf3d924323dc41a73bee52aa00

SHA-1:
dcc333662ba1d6e423873cc487c8f7c3db79df7c

SHA-256:
35121528c0e2d0a7658531c19823530d72ab50d4ec2bfecde0c19921d0ae306c

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Analysis date:
12/25/2024 11:56:49 PM UTC  (a few moments ago)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Optional.Installer.O
14.12.12.11

File size:
1.1 MB (1,159,320 bytes)

Product version:
1.2.61

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
Inno Setup

Language:
Language Neutral

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\winsweeper2011.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Celeritas Software Company

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
12/9/2009 12:00:00 AM

Valid to:
12/9/2011 11:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Celeritas Software Company, OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O=Celeritas Software Company, L=Chicago, S=Illinois, 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:
646BBA36353C7EC185BABFFE8137426F

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
6/10/2010 3:33:52 PM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.25

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:M7h6uFzd11mVLq1Ck1r+d/3q/XTVTHapyIyRyzx3khFd9E+/6g:2h1BIf0r83YDUpyxRAkzI+Cg

Entry address:
0x163C4

Entry point:
55, 8B, EC, 83, C4, A4, 53, 56, 57, 33, C0, 89, 45, C4, 89, 45, C0, 89, 45, A4, 89, 45, D0, 89, 45, C8, 89, 45, CC, 89, 45, D4, 89, 45, D8, 89, 45, EC, B8, 54, 55, 41, 00, E8, 70, 04, FF, FF, 33, C0, 55, 68, 91, 6A, 41, 00, 64, FF, 30, 64, 89, 20, 33, D2, 55, 68, 4D, 6A, 41, 00, 64, FF, 32, 64, 89, 22, A1, 48, AB, 41, 00, E8, A6, EF, FF, FF, E8, B1, EA, FF, FF, 8D, 55, EC, 33, C0, E8, FB, 87, FF, FF, 8B, 55, EC, B8, A8, D6, 41, 00, E8, A6, EA, FE, FF, 6A, 02, 6A, 00, 6A, 01, 8B, 0D, A8, D6, 41, 00, B2, 01...
 
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Entropy:
7.9166

Developed / compiled with:
Microsoft Visual C++

Code size:
85 KB (87,040 bytes)

The file winsweeper2011.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

http://winsweeper.software.informer.com/.../

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