audacity-setup.exe

GOLDEN BANNERS

The application audacity-setup.exe by GOLDEN BANNERS has been detected as adware by 2 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the Tomorrow Software Installer installer. The file has been seen being downloaded from files5.freedownloads.us.com.
Publisher:
Authentic Authenticated Setup  (signed by GOLDEN BANNERS)

Product:
Authentic Authenticated Setup

Version:
35.8.3.4829

MD5:
218808308b7090ee07066175db55178f

SHA-1:
067105af0d51666f24dfa8517a341d3070e65fec

SHA-256:
27f0936e728be43dd0ec56d013817ff93963074ce6cf1526511847543de0d53c

Scanner detections:
2 / 68

Status:
Adware

Description:
This is an installer which may bundle legitimate applications with offers for additional 3rd-party applications that may be unwanted by the user. While the installer contains an 'opt-out' feature this is not set be defult and is usually overlooked.

Analysis date:
4/24/2024 1:25:06 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

herdProtect (fuzzy)
2015.10.11.5

Reason Heuristics
PUP.TomorrowSoftware.GOLDENBANNERS.Bundler (M)
15.8.22.7

File size:
875.6 KB (896,576 bytes)

Product version:
35.8.3.4829

Copyright:
Copyright (C) 2015

Original file name:
setup.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
Tomorrow Software Installer

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\audacity-setup.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
6/9/2015 8:00:00 PM

Valid to:
6/9/2016 7:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=GOLDEN BANNERS, O=GOLDEN BANNERS, L=San Francisco, S=California, C=US

Issuer:
CN=VeriSign Class 3 Code Signing 2010 CA, OU=Terms of use at https://www.verisign.com/rpa (c)10, OU=VeriSign Trust Network, O="VeriSign, Inc.", C=US

Serial number:
1C9D6194236D472E93E5D8BC2B85866A

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
6/23/2014 11:04:22 PM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:15MLKmtvPyHu7B/7Fy9pNg4W7HMc/cN+2QHCTx:TiKmHyOF/7hp7scGQU

Entry address:
0xC822

Entry point:
E8, 3C, 05, 00, 00, E9, 57, FD, FF, FF, CC, CC, CC, CC, 51, 8D, 4C, 24, 04, 2B, C8, 1B, C0, F7, D0, 23, C8, 8B, C4, 25, 00, F0, FF, FF, 3B, C8, 72, 0A, 8B, C1, 59, 94, 8B, 00, 89, 04, 24, C3, 2D, 00, 10, 00, 00, 85, 00, EB, E9, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 81, EC, 28, 03, 00, 00, A3, A8, 4B, 41, 00, 89, 0D, A4, 4B, 41, 00, 89, 15, A0, 4B, 41, 00, 89, 1D, 9C, 4B, 41, 00, 89, 35, 98, 4B, 41, 00, 89, 3D, 94, 4B, 41, 00, 66, 8C, 15, C0, 4B, 41, 00, 66, 8C, 0D, B4, 4B, 41, 00, 66, 8C, 1D, 90, 4B, 41, 00, 66, 8C, 05, 8C...
 
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Entropy:
7.9570  (probably packed)

Code size:
51.5 KB (52,736 bytes)

The file audacity-setup.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

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