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Flawless Codec

Flawless Technology

The application codec.exe by Flawless Technology has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 12 anti-malware scanners. The file has been seen being downloaded from download-web-shield.com and multiple other hosts.
Publisher:
Flawless Technology  (signed and verified)

Product:
Flawless Codec

Version:
1.0.0

MD5:
14e3b42e38ddc4526a9cf72bb1222a5d

SHA-1:
994914f28b4a24d0059742ac24f51d9263045f4e

SHA-256:
08ff0c12ba0de4fb7dff4703e122c83780e6fdf536cc3e9299ecf1d90b003a3c

Scanner detections:
12 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Analysis date:
5/10/2024 11:06:20 PM UTC  (a few moments ago)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Trojan.GenericKD.1645152
1019

Bitdefender
Trojan.GenericKD.1645152
1.0.20.555

Dr.Web
Adware.Downware.2905
9.0.1.0111

Emsisoft Anti-Malware
Trojan.GenericKD.1645152
8.14.04.21.10

F-Secure
Trojan.GenericKD.1645152
11.2014-21-04_2

G Data
Trojan.GenericKD.1645152
14.4.24

IKARUS anti.virus
Trojan.SuspectCRC
t3scan.1.6.1.0

McAfee
Artemis!14E3B42E38DD
5600.7153

MicroWorld eScan
Trojan.GenericKD.1645152
15.0.0.333

nProtect
Trojan.GenericKD.1645152
14.04.21.01

Reason Heuristics
PUP.FlawlessTechnology.F
14.7.27.14

Trend Micro House Call
TROJ_GEN.F47V0419
7.2.111

File size:
2.4 MB (2,478,040 bytes)

Product version:
1.0.0

Copyright:
Copyright (C) 2014 Flawless Technology

Original file name:
Flawless Codec v2.1 Dealply.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
English (United States)

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Flawless Technology

Authority:
Flawless Technology

Valid from:
1/28/2014 12:00:00 AM

Valid to:
1/28/2015 12:00:00 AM

Subject:
CN=Flawless Technology

Issuer:
CN=Flawless Technology

Serial number:
846C60F5207341B44437AAE3B866DE77

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
12/10/2013 5:33:54 AM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
49152:15HAnvf56hquhnte8knRtfJUkzrQj24wXAgJgcCE5Q6f4RiIRaYwvHZp1JuGB:15g35mquhn4fLAgJrC6Q6hYwvZpyGB

Entry address:
0xB83CA

Entry point:
E8, D9, C9, 00, 00, E9, 79, FE, FF, FF, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 8D, 45, 14, 50, 6A, 00, FF, 75, 10, FF, 75, 0C, FF, 75, 08, E8, 7F, FB, FF, FF, 83, C4, 14, 5D, C3, E8, 26, 0C, 00, 00, 8B, 48, 6C, 3B, 0D, B8, A0, 52, 00, 74, 10, 8B, 0D, D0, 9F, 52, 00, 85, 48, 70, 75, 05, E8, 12, 17, 00, 00, A1, B8, 93, 52, 00, C3, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, 8B, 44, 24, 0C, 53, 85, C0, 74, 52, 8B, 54, 24, 08, 33, DB, 8A, 5C, 24, 0C, F7, C2, 03, 00, 00, 00, 74, 16, 8A, 0A, 83, C2, 01, 32, CB, 74, 72, 83, E8, 01, 74, 32, F7...
 
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Entropy:
6.5150

Code size:
946.5 KB (969,216 bytes)

The file codec.exe has been seen being distributed by the following 3 URLs.

http://download-web-shield.com/

http://162.243.23.35/.../Codec.exe

http://107.170.120.5/.../Codec.exe

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