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ancient-geek.exe

The Scone Company, LLC

The application ancient-geek.exe by The Scone Company has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 4 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) installer. The installer uses the OpenCandy monitzation platform which will donwload and install offers in the setup for potentially unwanted software including ad/search-supported toolbars.
Publisher:
The Scone Company, LLC  (signed and verified)

MD5:
755a242c660dbd2bc0392008dabf8c5b

SHA-1:
83daba1f94394615c53e193fe99b2a4f582a3aea

SHA-256:
7b54f987025a74777e63cdac3d36c1fde57d1af967130bf6a9aebda180ee543e

Scanner detections:
4 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Explanation:
Packages the OpenCandy software bundler that offers to install additional software and may include web browser add-ons and toolbars which display advertising (based on publisher settings and geo context).

Analysis date:
4/24/2024 8:33:02 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Dr.Web
Threat.Undefined
9.0.1.05190

ESET NOD32
Win32/OpenCandy potentially unsafe application
7.0.302.0

Sophos
PUA 'OpenCandy'
5.22

VIPRE Antivirus
Threat.5066272
46062

File size:
640.7 KB (656,064 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\ancient-geek.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
The Scone Company, LLC

Authority:
The USERTRUST Network

Valid from:
3/21/2011 8:00:00 PM

Valid to:
3/21/2012 7:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN="The Scone Company, LLC", O="The Scone Company, LLC", STREET=12902 Dorathea Terrace, L=Poway, S=CA, PostalCode=92064, C=US

Issuer:
CN=UTN-USERFirst-Object, OU=http://www.usertrust.com, O=The USERTRUST Network, L=Salt Lake City, S=UT, C=US

Serial number:
0381CFF79BD7453D57D75E665554AC94

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
12/5/2009 5:50:52 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:WeRM1r5sSoRPqxo4cOwduEiBlpdg2e8k0jtkq9jF+kV3n05qDTU:Z6jIRPtOKuEiBlpdy/0j2qWinEqDTU

Entry address:
0x30FA

Entry point:
81, EC, 80, 01, 00, 00, 53, 55, 56, 33, DB, 57, 89, 5C, 24, 18, C7, 44, 24, 10, 60, 91, 40, 00, 33, F6, C6, 44, 24, 14, 20, FF, 15, 30, 70, 40, 00, 68, 01, 80, 00, 00, FF, 15, B0, 70, 40, 00, 53, FF, 15, 7C, 72, 40, 00, 6A, 08, A3, 18, EC, 42, 00, E8, F1, 2B, 00, 00, A3, 64, EB, 42, 00, 53, 8D, 44, 24, 34, 68, 60, 01, 00, 00, 50, 53, 68, 98, 8F, 42, 00, FF, 15, 58, 71, 40, 00, 68, 54, 91, 40, 00, 68, 60, E3, 42, 00, E8, A4, 28, 00, 00, FF, 15, AC, 70, 40, 00, BF, 00, 40, 43, 00, 50, 57, E8, 92, 28, 00, 00...
 
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Entropy:
7.6863

Packer / compiler:
Nullsoft install system v2.x

Code size:
23.5 KB (24,064 bytes)

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