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darkwave-studio-4.9.8.exe

The application darkwave-studio-4.9.8.exe has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 20 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.
MD5:
f7042bc7f4b01a1588632c497cea87a2

SHA-1:
0c7611408becdb5c55ceba8b9cd1dd9da99415f4

SHA-256:
2e9741318fe8ccb89e053c939edc07fa88a9f8d85537493b4135594c883bed51

Scanner detections:
20 / 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:
4/19/2024 10:19:09 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Agnitum Outpost
Riskware.Agent
7.1.1

Avira AntiVirus
PUA/OpenCandy.Gen
8.3.2.4

Arcabit
PUP.Adware.OpenCandy
1.0.0.637

avast!
Win32:Adware-gen [Adw]
2014.9-160112

AVG
OpenCandy
2017.0.2866

Dr.Web
Adware.OpenCandy.137
9.0.1.012

ESET NOD32
Win32/OpenCandy.A potentially unsafe (variant)
10.12760

Fortinet FortiGate
Riskware/OpenCandy
1/12/2016

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

G Data
Win32.Application.OpenCandy
16.1.25

K7 AntiVirus
Unwanted-Program
13.212.18183

Kaspersky
not-a-virus:AdWare.Win32.OpenCandy
14.0.0.827

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.OpenCandy
v2016.01.12.03

McAfee
Artemis!F7042BC7F4B0
5600.6522

NANO AntiVirus
Riskware.Win32.OpenCandy.dvwkcv
1.0.10.5081

Reason Heuristics
PUP.OpenCandy.Installer (L)
16.1.12.15

Rising Antivirus
PE:Malware.Generic(Thunder)!1.A1C4 [F]
23.00.65.16110

Sophos
OpenCandy (PUA)
4.98

VIPRE Antivirus
Trojan.Win32.Generic
45948

ViRobot
Adware.Opencandy.2540575[h]
2014.3.20.0

File size:
2.4 MB (2,540,575 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\darkwave-studio-4.9.8.exe

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
8/5/2015 2:46:15 AM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
49152:fYsNci2/K1KcCocT8P+6dFbK69M/3nyIuqjAkwheE:fYsN8/A7CLma6O/3nyIu2/wheE

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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Packer / compiler:
Nullsoft install system v2.x

Code size:
23.5 KB (24,064 bytes)

The file darkwave-studio-4.9.8.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

http://www.experimentalscene.com/.../DarkWave-Studio-4.9.8.exe

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