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desktop.exe

4shared Desktop

New IT Limited

This is a bundle installer which bundles applications with offers for additional 3rd party software, mostly unwanted adware, and may be installed with minimal consent. The application desktop.exe by New IT Limited 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 New IT Desktop Setup installer.
Publisher:
New IT Solutions  (signed by New IT Limited)

Product:
4shared Desktop

Version:
3.3.4.0

MD5:
8c2b29dfef3cbda59966a29ad64f66d8

SHA-1:
87cec0422e6e75f930a17ee8177341dab538bf98

SHA-256:
7c9c240699c3cf05f722221a7ff6b8a95b598273f846c78758a56d7c459d534b

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:
4/26/2024 8:19:01 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.New IT Limited (M)
16.12.3.14

File size:
4.4 MB (4,613,624 bytes)

Product version:
1.0.0.0

Copyright:
New IT Solutions

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
New IT Desktop Setup

Language:
English (United Kingdom)

Common path:
C:\Program Files\4shared desktop\desktop.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
New IT Limited

Authority:
GoDaddy.com, Inc.

Valid from:
10/28/2010 9:33:24 PM

Valid to:
10/27/2011 8:30:06 PM

Subject:
CN=New IT Limited, O=New IT Limited, L=Nicosia, S=Nicosia, C=CY

Issuer:
SERIALNUMBER=07969287, CN=Go Daddy Secure Certification Authority, OU=http://certificates.godaddy.com/repository, O="GoDaddy.com, Inc.", L=Scottsdale, S=Arizona, C=US

Serial number:
27DDE55D2F337F

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
3/16/2011 7:04:39 PM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.25

CTPH (ssdeep):
49152:aq9eNoUYLnPne3nYTYvMCH8tDPhkKjhVKFd5feC//KhVebT0TLVQGZpBE/Iz:aq9hUanv2/MCMRAd5WCSVIKF

Entry address:
0x2E81F8

Entry point:
55, 8B, EC, 83, C4, F0, 53, B8, 54, 13, 6E, 00, E8, CF, 1A, D2, FF, 68, CC, 82, 6E, 00, 68, EC, 82, 6E, 00, E8, 74, 2A, D2, FF, 85, C0, 75, 0F, 68, CC, 82, 6E, 00, 68, FC, 82, 6E, 00, E8, 61, 2A, D2, FF, 85, C0, 74, 26, 6A, 04, 50, E8, CD, 2B, D2, FF, 8B, D8, 6A, 09, 53, E8, 8B, 2E, D2, FF, 53, E8, ED, 2D, D2, FF, A1, F4, 59, 6F, 00, 8B, 00, E8, C1, C9, DD, FF, EB, 70, A1, F4, 59, 6F, 00, 8B, 00, E8, 2B, C7, DD, FF, A1, F4, 59, 6F, 00, 8B, 00, BA, 18, 83, 6E, 00, E8, 7E, C1, DD, FF, 8B, 0D, F4, 53, 6F, 00...
 
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Developed / compiled with:
Microsoft Visual C++

Code size:
2.9 MB (3,043,840 bytes)

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