darkwave-studio-5.5.6-setup.exe

Setup Alpha ((New Media Holdings Ltd)

The application darkwave-studio-5.5.6-setup.exe by Setup Alpha ((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 dw.uptodown.com and multiple other hosts.
Publisher:
Setup Alpha ((New Media Holdings Ltd)  (signed and verified)

MD5:
55e6d6d4648eb786f8ca0cd6d6aca1d1

SHA-1:
ce0d774f7276de7a13298897ae3f2d0367e21f15

SHA-256:
139eb77f84f0d89196f3580bb4f0ed033886186f4fd170389fba58ede7a05c28

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:
4/30/2024 11:57:26 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.NewMedia.NMH (M)
16.9.1.14

File size:
2.9 MB (3,016,064 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
installCore (using Nullsoft Install System)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\darkwave-studio-5.5.6-setup.exe

Digital Signature
Authority:
GlobalSign nv-sa

Valid from:
3/14/2016 10:00:32 AM

Valid to:
6/25/2017 4:42:13 AM

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

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

Serial number:
1121BA855EED3CFF403D39EDCDA9844389DA

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
4/1/2016 8:20:02 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
49152:qJg2FuBpWdfPuXqcqhVmU3gBIsA19YfgB6hw1Un3IyHU1hGtS2MxuJI9BiIHzXJA:qJgdvQiq5ZsAYkuwCnYOU1stSh4YtHlA

Entry address:
0x326F

Entry point:
81, EC, 84, 01, 00, 00, 53, 55, 56, 57, 33, DB, 68, 01, 80, 00, 00, 89, 5C, 24, 20, C7, 44, 24, 14, 30, 91, 40, 00, 89, 5C, 24, 1C, C6, 44, 24, 18, 20, FF, 15, B4, 70, 40, 00, FF, 15, B0, 70, 40, 00, 66, 3D, 06, 00, 74, 11, 53, E8, 07, 2E, 00, 00, 3B, C3, 74, 07, 68, 00, 0C, 00, 00, FF, D0, BE, 80, 72, 40, 00, 56, E8, 83, 2D, 00, 00, 56, FF, 15, AC, 70, 40, 00, 8D, 74, 06, 01, 38, 1E, 75, EB, 6A, 0D, E8, DB, 2D, 00, 00, 6A, 0B, E8, D4, 2D, 00, 00, A3, A4, 27, 7A, 00, FF, 15, 38, 70, 40, 00, 53, FF, 15, 6C...
 
[+]

Entropy:
7.9563

Packer / compiler:
Nullsoft install system v2.x

Code size:
23.5 KB (24,064 bytes)

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