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Aurora.exe

Aurora

AURORA NETWORK COMPANY LIMITED

The application Aurora.exe by AURORA NETWORK COMPANY LIMITED has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 6 anti-malware scanners. While running, it connects to the Internet address 173.244.200.39.static.midphase.com on port 443.
Publisher:
AuroraBrowser.COM  (signed by AURORA NETWORK COMPANY LIMITED)

Product:
Aurora

Version:
1.0.0.3031

MD5:
22741e6b4a95d8eee250a58445b0b58e

SHA-1:
88e7ab29ba2786681608e2cc3be08ecb79af035f

SHA-256:
0917ef9f3825a4f4c9f58212b02ac10520876c4f4f15418442126d295eebc2c8

Scanner detections:
6 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Analysis date:
4/19/2024 5:05:38 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Dr.Web
Adware.Mutabaha.1053
9.0.1.05190

ESET NOD32
Win32/Hao123.H potentially unwanted application
6.3.12010.0

McAfee
Artemis!22741E6B4A95
5600.6546

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Hao123 (M)
16.7.16.23

Rising Antivirus
PE:Malware.Generic(Thunder)!1.A1C4 [F]
23.00.65.151218

File size:
4 MB (4,143,152 bytes)

Product version:
1.0.0.3031

Copyright:
Copyright 2015 Aurora Network Company Limited. All rights reserved.

Original file name:
Aurora.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\roaming\aurorabrowser\aurora.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
AURORA NETWORK COMPANY LIMITED

Authority:
DigiCert Inc

Valid from:
7/24/2015 5:30:00 AM

Valid to:
7/26/2016 5:30:00 PM

Subject:
CN=AURORA NETWORK COMPANY LIMITED, O=AURORA NETWORK COMPANY LIMITED, L=Hong Kong, C=HK, PostalCode=HK, STREET="Unit 04, 7/F Bright Way Tower No.33 Mong Kok Rd, Kln", SERIALNUMBER=2237249, OID.1.3.6.1.4.1.311.60.2.1.3=HK, OID.2.5.4.15=Private Organization

Issuer:
CN=DigiCert EV Code Signing CA (SHA2), OU=www.digicert.com, O=DigiCert Inc, C=US

Serial number:
0BDEC9C484B67149205C8B50942140A6

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
12/11/2015 10:58:52 AM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
98304:iM9FO0JsfELgz2ybT42WpKTXgLAG8TYrIV:r9FO0+ELgz2ybTUvLA6IV

Entry address:
0x197F54

Entry point:
E8, 48, 09, 01, 00, E9, 78, FE, FF, FF, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 51, 51, 8D, 45, F8, 50, FF, 15, 5C, 81, 5C, 00, 8B, 45, F8, 8B, 4D, FC, 6A, 00, 05, 00, 80, C1, 2A, 68, 80, 96, 98, 00, 81, D1, 21, 4E, 62, FE, 51, 50, E8, 02, 8C, 00, 00, 85, D2, 7C, 0F, 7F, 07, 3D, 7F, D2, FF, 7F, 76, 06, 83, C8, FF, 89, 45, FC, 8B, 4D, 08, 85, C9, 74, 02, 89, 01, C9, C3, CC, CC, CC, CC, 8B, 4C, 24, 0C, 57, 85, C9, 0F, 84, 92, 00, 00, 00, 56, 53, 8B, D9, 8B, 74, 24, 14, F7, C6, 03, 00, 00, 00, 8B, 7C, 24, 10, 75, 0B, C1, E9, 02...
 
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Entropy:
6.5054

Code size:
1.8 MB (1,860,096 bytes)

Shell Open Command
Open type:
htmlfile

Command:
"C:\users\{user}\appdata\roaming\aurorabrowser\aurora.exe" "%1"


The executing file has been seen to make the following network communications in live environments.

TCP (HTTP SSL):
Connects to edge-z-m-mini-shv-01-gru2.facebook.com  (31.13.85.37:443)

TCP (HTTP SSL):
Connects to edge-star-mini-shv-01-gru2.facebook.com  (31.13.85.36:443)

TCP (HTTP SSL):
Connects to xx-fbcdn-shv-01-gru2.fbcdn.net  (31.13.85.4:443)

TCP (HTTP SSL):
Connects to edge-star-shv-01-gru2.facebook.com  (31.13.85.8:443)

TCP (HTTP SSL):
Connects to edge-atlas-shv-01-gru2.facebook.com  (31.13.85.1:443)

TCP (HTTP SSL):
Connects to ec2-52-71-199-94.compute-1.amazonaws.com  (52.71.199.94:443)

TCP (HTTP SSL):
Connects to bam-6.nr-data.net  (162.247.242.18:443)

TCP (HTTP SSL):
Connects to a23-77-43-44.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com  (23.77.43.44:443)

TCP (HTTP SSL):
Connects to 173.244.200.39.static.midphase.com  (173.244.200.39:443)

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