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Driver Genius Professional Edition

Driver Information Technology Co., Ltd.

The application driver_genius.exe, “Driver Genius Professional Edition Setup ” by Driver Information Technology Co. has been detected as a potentially unwanted program 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 Inno Setup installer. The file has been seen being downloaded from win.cutephp.com and multiple other hosts.
Publisher:
Driver-Soft Inc.   (signed by Driver Information Technology Co., Ltd.)

Product:
Driver Genius Professional Edition

Description:
Driver Genius Professional Edition Setup

Version:
10.0

MD5:
fed798013cb9a9623a287b3ecbac25c9

SHA-1:
e5be6dce92a470d4fa388574bfb70ff193363254

SHA-256:
9a4775fb6913657f3d8cc4d98a03d9cd20112d5dca8e77aeb661e9c601853aa7

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Analysis date:
4/26/2024 6:37:17 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.DriverSoft.DriverIn.Installer.Meta (L)
16.6.13.21

File size:
6.7 MB (6,988,592 bytes)

Product version:
10.0

Copyright:
Copyright © 2002-2011 Driver-Soft Inc.

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
Inno Setup

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\driver_genius.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Driver Information Technology Co., Ltd.

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
7/8/2010 2:00:00 AM

Valid to:
7/10/2011 1:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN="Driver Information Technology Co., Ltd.", OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O="Driver Information Technology Co., Ltd.", L=ChangSha, S=HuNan, C=CN

Issuer:
CN=VeriSign Class 3 Code Signing 2009-2 CA, OU=Terms of use at https://www.verisign.com/rpa (c)09, OU=VeriSign Trust Network, O="VeriSign, Inc.", C=US

Serial number:
237EA3112A15AB516B8E35E07E26E432

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
6/20/1992 12:22:17 AM

OS version:
1.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.25

CTPH (ssdeep):
196608:M3hJolTLWRSd5cnWwnL4l+TcmUOHXvzd3:M3r+vWcdKWYL4llCvzd3

Entry address:
0x9C40

Entry point:
55, 8B, EC, 83, C4, C4, 53, 56, 57, 33, C0, 89, 45, F0, 89, 45, DC, E8, 86, 94, FF, FF, E8, 8D, A6, FF, FF, E8, 1C, A9, FF, FF, E8, 53, C9, FF, FF, E8, 9A, C9, FF, FF, E8, C9, F2, FF, FF, E8, 30, F4, FF, FF, 33, C0, 55, 68, FC, A2, 40, 00, 64, FF, 30, 64, 89, 20, 33, D2, 55, 68, C5, A2, 40, 00, 64, FF, 32, 64, 89, 22, A1, 14, C0, 40, 00, E8, 96, FE, FF, FF, E8, C9, FA, FF, FF, 8D, 55, F0, 33, C0, E8, 83, CF, FF, FF, 8B, 55, F0, B8, E8, CD, 40, 00, E8, 32, 95, FF, FF, 6A, 02, 6A, 00, 6A, 01, 8B, 0D, E8, CD...
 
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Packer / compiler:
Inno Setup v5.x - Installer Maker

Code size:
37 KB (37,888 bytes)

The file driver_genius.exe has been seen being distributed by the following 3 URLs.

http://win.cutephp.com/go?p=917267

ftp://ftp2.avanquest.com/pub/.../Driver_Genius.exe

http://filecdn.avanquest.com/.../Driver_Genius.exe

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