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darkwave-studio-4.9.5.exe

The application darkwave-studio-4.9.5.exe has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 17 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 installer uses the OpenCandy monitzation platform which will donwload and install offers in the setup for potentially unwanted software including ad/search-supported toolbars. The file has been seen being downloaded from www.experimentalscene.com and multiple other hosts.
MD5:
b78ca587edbfabd180f295ed940fd7f9

SHA-1:
907f3f94e2580488138ea1408bc9dfd595fc444f

SHA-256:
e4820efbf88ddc2ea4a3f7733152c6086c3e73bc7be0d0ae80d63c478b8452cf

Scanner detections:
17 / 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:
4/20/2024 3:40:51 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Agnitum Outpost
Riskware.Agent
7.1.1

Arcabit
PUP.Adware.OpenCandy
1.0.0.526

avast!
Win32:Adware-gen [Adw]
2014.9-150914

AVG
OpenCandy
2016.0.2986

Dr.Web
Adware.OpenCandy.137
9.0.1.0257

ESET NOD32
Win32/OpenCandy.C potentially unsafe (variant)
9.12248

Fortinet FortiGate
Riskware/OpenCandy
9/14/2015

F-Prot
W32/OpenCandy.A.gen
v6.4.7.1.166

G Data
Win32.Application.OpenCandy
15.9.25

K7 AntiVirus
Unwanted-Program
13.210.17198

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.OpenCandy
v2015.09.14.05

McAfee
Artemis!B78CA587EDBF
5600.6642

NANO AntiVirus
Riskware.Win32.OpenCandy.dvwkcv
0.30.24.3283

Reason Heuristics
PUP.OpenCandy.Installer (L)
15.9.14.17

Sophos
OpenCandy (PUA)
4.98

VIPRE Antivirus
Trojan.Win32.Generic
43734

Zillya! Antivirus
Adware.OpenCandy.Win32.507
2.0.0.2398

File size:
2.4 MB (2,517,474 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\darkwave-studio-4.9.5.exe

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
8/4/2015 5:46:15 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
49152:ffvHI0lzmslK1aK/+ibZ2aDxoBsYHcIljdDADHwd+SL/DnSJri/D:ffPzlKwGa6dDDOBsY8E4HwdRzS5MD

Entry address:
0x321A

Entry point:
81, EC, 84, 01, 00, 00, 53, 55, 56, 33, DB, 57, 89, 5C, 24, 18, C7, 44, 24, 10, 30, 91, 40, 00, 89, 5C, 24, 20, C6, 44, 24, 14, 20, FF, 15, 34, 70, 40, 00, 68, 01, 80, 00, 00, FF, 15, B4, 70, 40, 00, 53, FF, 15, 8C, 72, 40, 00, 6A, 09, A3, F8, 1F, 7A, 00, E8, 05, 2E, 00, 00, A3, 44, 1F, 7A, 00, 53, 8D, 44, 24, 38, 68, 60, 01, 00, 00, 50, 53, 68, F8, D4, 79, 00, FF, 15, 64, 71, 40, 00, 68, E4, 91, 40, 00, 68, 40, 17, 7A, 00, E8, AF, 2A, 00, 00, FF, 15, B0, 70, 40, 00, BD, 00, 80, 7A, 00, 50, 55, E8, 9D, 2A...
 
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Entropy:
7.9419

Packer / compiler:
Nullsoft install system v2.x

Code size:
23.5 KB (24,064 bytes)

The file darkwave-studio-4.9.5.exe has been seen being distributed by the following 2 URLs.

http://www.experimentalscene.com/.../DarkWave-Studio-4.9.4.exe

http://software.thaiware.com/download_url.php?id=11313

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