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driverwhiz.exe

Driver Whiz

383 Media, Inc.

The application driverwhiz.exe 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 NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) installer, however the file is not signed with an authenticode signature from a trusted source. The file has been seen being downloaded from download.driverwhiz.com.
Publisher:
383 Media, Inc.

Product:
Driver Whiz

Version:
2.6.2

MD5:
2b5a36b0a78e1d4142c78143c781da2b

SHA-1:
892249cfb33aa48bcf00dd57d70a1c3aa71b58c2

SHA-256:
953726588a5db80d4985d0acbc04e16050bb9caee080ea1ccc998da34edadafb

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Analysis date:
4/24/2024 11:44:55 PM UTC  (a few moments ago)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Optional.Installer
16.7.23.2

File size:
8 MB (8,356,260 bytes)

Product version:
2.6.2

Copyright:
Copyright (c) 2013 383 Media, Inc.

Trademarks:
Copyright (c) 2013 383 Media, Inc.

Original file name:
DriverWhizSetup.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)

Language:
English (United States)

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

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
12/25/2013 1:01:35 AM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
196608:RLo3HBu6deuLhpjQuPg+lnkBcv17XXfid4eO2jg7s+EbL29:RLo46BjQuBnX9XKdDgGq

Entry address:
0x3219

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, 08, A3, 98, 37, 42, 00, E8, AD, 2D, 00, 00, A3, E4, 36, 42, 00, 53, 8D, 44, 24, 38, 68, 60, 01, 00, 00, 50, 53, 68, A0, EC, 41, 00, FF, 15, 64, 71, 40, 00, 68, E4, 91, 40, 00, 68, E0, 2E, 42, 00, E8, 57, 2A, 00, 00, FF, 15, B0, 70, 40, 00, BD, 00, 90, 42, 00, 50, 55, E8, 45, 2A...
 
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Entropy:
7.9997

Packer / compiler:
Nullsoft install system v2.x

Code size:
23 KB (23,552 bytes)

The file driverwhiz.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

http://download.driverwhiz.com/dw2/dwinternal2/dw2.6.2/.../Driverwhiz.exe

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