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3cxphone4.exe

Tucows Inc.

The application 3cxphone4.exe by Tucows has been detected as adware by 10 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the Inno Setup installer. The setup program uses the InstallCore engine which may bundle additional software offers including toolbars and browser extensions. The file has been seen being downloaded from www.tucows.com.
Publisher:
Tucows Inc.  (signed and verified)

MD5:
aa9c59a6af96f79f77d3a93119cbcfd2

SHA-1:
0c7e10ab2ce664fbccbe58e940b8092507c81882

SHA-256:
c01ab4fd406f47295e482bca560a70566787049fb8c852eb98931507d069bedf

Scanner detections:
10 / 68

Status:
Adware

Explanation:
Uses the InstallCore download manager to install additional potentially unwanted software which may include extensions such as DealPly and various toolbars.

Analysis date:
4/23/2024 10:46:10 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Agnitum Outpost
PUA.InstallCore
7.1.1

Avira AntiVirus
ADWARE/InstallCore.Gen7
7.11.183.214

Comodo Security
Application.Win32.InstallCore.BWAN
20033

Dr.Web
Trojan.MulDrop5.10078
9.0.1.098

ESET NOD32
Win32/InstallCore.LY potentially unwanted application
9.7.0.302.0

herdProtect (fuzzy)
variant of video-to-gif.exe (Adware)
2015.7.11.22

Norman
InstallCore.WQEC
11.20150711

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Installer.Tucows
15.4.8.17

Vba32 AntiVirus
Downware.InstallCore
3.12.26.3

VIPRE Antivirus
Threat.4788237
34232

File size:
686.1 KB (702,584 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
Inno Setup

Language:
Language Neutral

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\3cxphone4.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Tucows Inc.

Authority:
COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:
8/20/2013 6:00:00 PM

Valid to:
8/20/2016 5:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Tucows Inc., O=Tucows Inc., STREET=96 Mowat Ave., L=Toronto, S=Ontario, PostalCode=M6K 3M1, C=CA

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

Serial number:
4A452F2DD2EEA6072814A28EF2F01AEE

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
6/19/1992 4:22:17 PM

OS version:
1.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.25

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:knvpKMJ2xHL5CgIw8UfDX7KTnymWb8ND4prnCw:knvQMJ2HdCRw8UzgvLGrCw

Entry address:
0x9C40

Entry point:
55, 8B, EC, 83, C4, C4, 53, 56, 57, 33, C0, 89, 45, F0, 89, 45, DC, E8, 86, 94, FF, FF, E8, 8D, A6, FF, FF, E8, 1C, A9, FF, FF, E8, 53, C9, FF, FF, E8, 9A, C9, FF, FF, E8, C9, F2, FF, FF, E8, 30, F4, FF, FF, 33, C0, 55, 68, FC, A2, 40, 00, 64, FF, 30, 64, 89, 20, 33, D2, 55, 68, C5, A2, 40, 00, 64, FF, 32, 64, 89, 22, A1, 14, C0, 40, 00, E8, 96, FE, FF, FF, E8, C9, FA, FF, FF, 8D, 55, F0, 33, C0, E8, 83, CF, FF, FF, 8B, 55, F0, B8, 24, CE, 40, 00, E8, 32, 95, FF, FF, 6A, 02, 6A, 00, 6A, 01, 8B, 0D, 24, CE...
 
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Entropy:
7.7781

Packer / compiler:
Inno Setup v5.x - Installer Maker

Code size:
37 KB (37,888 bytes)

The file 3cxphone4.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

http://www.tucows.com/autodownload.html?dlm=is&software_id=500657

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