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darkwave-studio-5.5.1-setup.exe

FlashDelivery (New Media Holdings Ltd)

The application darkwave-studio-5.5.1-setup.exe by FlashDelivery (New Media Holdings) has been detected as adware by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. The program is a setup application that uses the installCore installer. The file has been seen being downloaded from darkwave-studio.de.softonic.com and multiple other hosts.
Publisher:
FlashDelivery (New Media Holdings Ltd)  (signed and verified)

MD5:
9612a5622c7945d52bf241ec17df8dd0

SHA-1:
ab09f8ef5333d339709e9dbb6ce283b77c6c7733

SHA-256:
ae2062eb7cbf437a858bb049697346cac3fdbb47da7ebc9b3acac934aeb4cf6a

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Adware

Note:
Our current pool of anti-malware engines have not currently detected this file, however based on our own detection heuristics we feel that this file is unwanted.

Description:
This is also known as bundleware, or downloadware, which is an downloader designed to simply deliver ad-supported offers in the setup routine of an otherwise legitimate software.

Analysis date:
4/29/2024 11:06:14 PM UTC  (a few moments ago)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.NewMedia.NMH.Bundler (M)
16.4.26.10

File size:
2.9 MB (3,020,336 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
installCore

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\darkwave-studio-5.5.1-setup.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
FlashDelivery (New Media Holdings Ltd)

Authority:
GlobalSign nv-sa

Valid from:
12/17/2015 2:34:13 PM

Valid to:
5/26/2016 4:47:33 PM

Subject:
CN=FlashDelivery (New Media Holdings Ltd), O=FlashDelivery (New Media Holdings Ltd), L=Tel Aviv, C=IL

Issuer:
CN=GlobalSign CodeSigning CA - SHA256 - G2, O=GlobalSign nv-sa, C=BE

Serial number:
1121B448FCBD6696BB265A8ECF21BEDEBCAC

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
12/27/2015 7:25:44 AM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
49152:jg3jK7T/h9J6ilZ4a6JG4/5tjNFWWZ/fCyisvLZDA39jNaB86wr:jg3o/hP6+d3Ytpky/fCyiaAtjNg8t

Entry address:
0x322E

Entry point:
81, EC, 84, 01, 00, 00, 53, 56, 57, 33, DB, 68, 01, 80, 00, 00, 89, 5C, 24, 18, C7, 44, 24, 10, 30, 91, 40, 00, 89, 5C, 24, 20, C6, 44, 24, 14, 20, FF, 15, AC, 70, 40, 00, FF, 15, A8, 70, 40, 00, 66, 3D, 06, 00, 74, 11, 53, E8, 94, 2F, 00, 00, 3B, C3, 74, 07, 68, 00, 0C, 00, 00, FF, D0, 55, 68, 0C, 92, 40, 00, E8, 14, 2F, 00, 00, 68, 04, 92, 40, 00, E8, 0A, 2F, 00, 00, 68, F8, 91, 40, 00, E8, 00, 2F, 00, 00, 6A, 09, E8, 63, 2F, 00, 00, 6A, 07, E8, 5C, 2F, 00, 00, A3, 84, 1F, 7A, 00, FF, 15, 3C, 70, 40, 00...
 
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Code size:
24 KB (24,576 bytes)

The file darkwave-studio-5.5.1-setup.exe has been seen being distributed by the following 6 URLs.

http://darkwave-studio.de.softonic.com/download-tracker?th=1/6CH9aeXedl4L8u BHNJXWTW LP1LFlnGQpxqjlxANWeszXncrxElLkTICkozKBZ6sk0zwO7eHTtaLglGSWh3UKDIWwSimQ0/b1SwO59DHtvc0mMAUCM9UQtdOJynxrYrXXI7ULNENsp1KGbF/.../9A==

http://files.downloadnow.com/s/software/14/52/93/.../DarkWave-Studio-5.5.1-Setup.exe

http://darkwave-studio.en.softonic.com/download-tracker?th=1/6CH9aeXedl4L8u BHNJXWTW LP1LFlnGQpxqjlxANWeszXncrxElLkTICkozKBZ6sk0zwO7eHTtaLglGSWh3UKDIWwSimQ0/b1SwO59DHtvc0mMAUCM9UQtdOJynxrYrXXI7ULNENsp1KGbF/.../9A==

http://darkwave-studio.it.softonic.com/download-tracker?th=1/6CH9aeXedl4L8u BHNJXWTW LP1LFlnGQpxqjlxANWeszXncrxElLkTICkozKBZ6sk0zwO7eHTtaLglGSWh3UKDIWwSimQ0/b1SwO59DHtvc0mMAUCM9UQtdOJynxrYrXXI7ULNENsp1KGbF/.../9A==

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

http://www.experimentalscene.com/.../DarkWave-Studio-5.5.1-Setup.exe

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