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audacity.exe

The application audacity.exe has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 3 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) installer, however the file is not signed with an authenticode signature from a trusted source. The file has been seen being downloaded from www.searchapps.me.
MD5:
ededa644c93e676127be6104f573e03e

SHA-1:
2ac33bfd8a2f8e10e22963a99478dd7e5dae8d35

SHA-256:
0232e7f8f3a1aa5bc03d842dbf5ecd03d0a11947db7a78fe8b21bf6317047f1b

Scanner detections:
3 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Explanation:
May bundle various unwanted software without adequate user consent.

Analysis date:
4/26/2024 3:19:20 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

avast!
Malware-gen
151219-0

AVG
Could be an adware MultiBundle
2015.0.4477

Reason Heuristics
Adware.Bundler (M)
16.5.1.16

File size:
171.5 KB (175,650 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)

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

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
8/28/2014 11:10:25 PM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
1536:p94MJ+HwVOAr6YmQBSNuq+rrVssWNrCj/LnVn0lfsfUMd:zdUHwwCBSNuq+VsP6nossMd

Entry address:
0x31E8

Entry point:
81, EC, 80, 01, 00, 00, 53, 55, 56, 33, DB, 57, 89, 5C, 24, 18, C7, 44, 24, 10, E0, 73, 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, B8, 3C, 42, 00, E8, 23, 25, 00, 00, 53, 68, 60, 01, 00, 00, A3, C0, 3B, 42, 00, 8D, 44, 24, 38, 50, 53, 68, DB, 73, 40, 00, FF, 15, 58, 71, 40, 00, 68, D0, 73, 40, 00, 68, C0, 33, 42, 00, E8, 15, 24, 00, 00, FF, 15, AC, 70, 40, 00, 50, BF, 00, 90, 42, 00, 57, E8, 03, 24, 00, 00...
 
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Entropy:
4.3929

Packer / compiler:
Nullsoft install system v2.x

Code size:
22.5 KB (23,040 bytes)

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

http://www.searchapps.me/.../download.php

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