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wubi.exe

Canonical UK Ltd.

This is a setup program which is used to install the application. The file has been seen being downloaded from old-releases.ubuntu.com and multiple other hosts.
Publisher:
Canonical UK Ltd.  (signed and verified)

MD5:
550c64a7d9223ee2fa8a630512b956c0

SHA-1:
5e20f5e3974c3c6800ba55b1e1ecf7691d48b947

SHA-256:
7ee8f705cee5dae30e78507a621917e49393c11ff0ec94646088ee0db463c29b

Scanner detections:
0 / 68

Status:
Clean (as of last analysis)

Analysis date:
12/25/2024 1:01:17 PM UTC  (today)

File size:
2.4 MB (2,523,576 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Canonical UK Ltd.

Authority:
Thawte, Inc.

Valid from:
10/4/2012 2:00:00 AM

Valid to:
10/7/2014 1:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=Canonical UK Ltd., OU=IS, O=Canonical UK Ltd., L=London, S=London, C=GB

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

Serial number:
6BDDA57B8B7E511D81A2FCDAAAB3C5B2

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
2/1/2014 1:29:20 AM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.23

CTPH (ssdeep):
49152:MM17YSvK2UCyDgFfBn7vCEGxYHvAfkoY8Ocuz4RYJx5NwwaawdO:X1ESvK2RyGfRKG9oSjz4RYn5pbyO

Entry address:
0x14C0

Entry point:
83, EC, 0C, C7, 05, 38, 90, 40, 00, 01, 00, 00, 00, E8, 1E, 4C, 00, 00, 83, C4, 0C, E9, A6, FC, FF, FF, 8D, B6, 00, 00, 00, 00, 83, EC, 0C, C7, 05, 38, 90, 40, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, E8, FE, 4B, 00, 00, 83, C4, 0C, E9, 86, FC, FF, FF, 90, 90, 90, 90, 90, 90, A1, 48, 70, 40, 00, 85, C0, 74, 43, 55, 89, E5, 83, EC, 18, C7, 04, 24, 00, 80, 40, 00, FF, 15, E0, A1, 40, 00, BA, 00, 00, 00, 00, 83, EC, 04, 85, C0, 74, 16, C7, 44, 24, 04, 0E, 80, 40, 00, 89, 04, 24, FF, 15, E4, A1, 40, 00, 83, EC, 08, 89, C2, 85, D2...
 
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Code size:
23.5 KB (24,064 bytes)

The file wubi.exe has been discovered within the following programs.

Kubuntu  by Kubuntu
www.kubuntu.org
About 3% of users remove it
Ubuntu  by Ubuntu
Publisher's description - “Fast, free and incredibly easy to use, the Ubuntu operating system powers millions of desktop PCs, laptops and servers around the world. Ubuntu will work with your existing PC files, printers, cameras, music players and smartphones — and it comes with thousands of free apps.”
www.ubuntu.com
About 1% of users remove it
Xubuntu  by Xubuntu
www.xubuntu.org
About 6% of users remove it
 
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The file wubi.exe has been seen being distributed by the following 16 URLs.

http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/releases/.../wubi-12.04.4.exe

http://ubuntu-cd.mirror.iweb.ca//.../wubi.exe

http://releases.ubuntu.com/.../wubi.exe

http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/.../?distro=wubi&bits=&release=lts

http://www.ubuntu.com/download/.../questions?distro=wubi&bits=&release=lts

http://stingray.cyber.net.pk/pub/ubuntu-releases//.../wubi.exe

http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/ubuntu-cd//.../wubi.exe

http://www.ubuntu.com/pre-download?destination=desktop&distro=wubi&bits=&release=lts

http://ftp.u-picardie.fr/mirror/ubuntu/releases//.../wubi.exe

http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/releases.ubuntu.com//.../wubi.exe

http://mirrors.telianet.dk/ubuntu-releases//.../wubi.exe

http://mirror.hmc.edu/ubuntu-releases//.../wubi.exe

http://ftp.tku.edu.tw/ubuntu-releases//.../wubi.exe

http://ftp.icm.edu.pl/pub/Linux/ubuntu-releases//.../wubi.exe

http://www.ubuntu.com/start-download?distro=wubi&bits=32&release=lts

http://nl.releases.ubuntu.com/.../wubi.exe

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