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File Type Advisor

Soft Integrator Ltd.

The application file-type-advisor.exe, “File Type Advisor Setup ” by Soft Integrator has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. This is a self-extracting archive and installer and has been known to bundle potentially unwanted software. It runs as a scheduled task under the Windows Task Scheduler named FileAdvisorCheck triggered daily at a specified time. The file has been seen being downloaded from download.informer.com and multiple other hosts.
Publisher:
filetypeadvisor.com   (signed by Soft Integrator Ltd.)

Product:
File Type Advisor

Description:
File Type Advisor Setup

MD5:
7befb84fa3afe7296e6ceed4ab0c69d0

SHA-1:
2eb6da101cb082bbe02c1a580a98b5c89790e565

SHA-256:
baeef81df8a7d3fc864cbb769da68fd2ca3e8a1e44b32f640b2020c57c4d67bd

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Analysis date:
4/18/2024 9:08:27 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.SoftIntegrator.Bundle.Installer.Meta (M)
16.2.24.9

File size:
1.6 MB (1,661,288 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
Language Neutral

Common path:
C:\Program Files\file type advisor\file-type-advisor.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Soft Integrator Ltd.

Authority:
COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:
9/18/2012 1:00:00 AM

Valid to:
9/19/2017 12:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=Soft Integrator Ltd., O=Soft Integrator Ltd., STREET=34-B Predslavinskaya, L=Kyiv, S=Kyiv, PostalCode=03150, C=UA

Issuer:
CN=COMODO Code Signing CA 2, O=COMODO CA Limited, L=Salford, S=Greater Manchester, C=GB

Serial number:
00940377CC336C213475B843DA476735C9

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
1/30/2013 2:21:56 PM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.25

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:LxGcrhjUmDRusfDPqk+1+DutSUQ3DzTMmJJU/AYbzf+98S+mlP+Rnud549NDXe0d:kKhRRu91JTQzzn/Obz88S+9qZYaleCdE

Entry address:
0x113BC

Entry point:
55, 8B, EC, 83, C4, A4, 53, 56, 57, 33, C0, 89, 45, C4, 89, 45, C0, 89, 45, A4, 89, 45, D0, 89, 45, C8, 89, 45, CC, 89, 45, D4, 89, 45, D8, 89, 45, EC, B8, 2C, 00, 41, 00, E8, E8, 51, FF, FF, 33, C0, 55, 68, 9E, 1A, 41, 00, 64, FF, 30, 64, 89, 20, 33, D2, 55, 68, 5A, 1A, 41, 00, 64, FF, 32, 64, 89, 22, A1, 48, 5B, 41, 00, E8, 16, D8, FF, FF, E8, 65, D3, FF, FF, 80, 3D, DC, 2A, 41, 00, 00, 74, 0C, E8, 2B, D9, FF, FF, 33, C0, E8, 80, 32, FF, FF, 8D, 55, EC, 33, C0, E8, E2, A3, FF, FF, 8B, 55, EC, B8, 50, 86...
 
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Entropy:
7.9578

Developed / compiled with:
Microsoft Visual C++

Code size:
63.5 KB (65,024 bytes)

Scheduled Task
Task name:
FileAdvisorCheck

Trigger:
Daily (Runs daily at 10:53)


The file file-type-advisor.exe has been seen being distributed by the following 2 URLs.

http://download.informer.com/.../file-type-advisor.exe

http://file-type-advisor.software.informer.com/.../

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