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freeaudioeditor.exe

TechEvolve GMBH

The application freeaudioeditor.exe by TechEvolve GMBH has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 10 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the Inno Setup installer. The setup program uses the InstallCore engine which may bundle additional software offers including toolbars and browser extensions. The file has been seen being downloaded from free-audio-editor.com and multiple other hosts.
Publisher:
TechEvolve GMBH  (signed and verified)

MD5:
72b6d707ac840f5ef40cbdca781524e6

SHA-1:
6267b0d840221b5de6dae72fcb7200dcef263ea5

SHA-256:
5788b48effda9a40869b75a5fbe57c92a6683d2d2bab38be3bb1bf6757c865b2

Scanner detections:
10 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Explanation:
Uses the InstallCore download manager to install additional potentially unwanted software which may include extensions such as DealPly and various toolbars.

Analysis date:
4/24/2024 8:22:22 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Avira AntiVirus
ADWARE/InstallCore.Gen9
7.11.169.232

ESET NOD32
Win32/InstallCore.QL (variant)
8.10333

Fortinet FortiGate
Riskware/InstallCore
9/6/2014

F-Prot
W32/InstallCore.AC.gen
v6.4.7.1.166

K7 AntiVirus
Trojan
13.183.13198

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.Amonetize
v2014.09.06.08

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Optional.TechEvolveGMBH.P
14.9.6.8

SUPERAntiSpyware
PUP.InstallCore/Variant
10376

Trend Micro House Call
Suspicious_GEN.F47V0822
7.2.249

VIPRE Antivirus
InstallCore
32644

File size:
667.3 KB (683,320 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
Inno Setup

Language:
Language Neutral

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
TechEvolve GMBH

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
12/15/2012 4:00:00 PM

Valid to:
12/16/2015 3:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=TechEvolve GMBH, OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O=TechEvolve GMBH, L=Beijing, S=Beijing, C=CN

Issuer:
CN=VeriSign Class 3 Code Signing 2010 CA, OU=Terms of use at https://www.verisign.com/rpa (c)10, OU=VeriSign Trust Network, O="VeriSign, Inc.", C=US

Serial number:
50FF3D5C361AE9F52E4B0A3CF576C6EE

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
6/19/1992 3:22:17 PM

OS version:
1.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.25

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:RNvp+A20jyv+/x+unkCxlozZ6gvJS1gXr2upAV+POzD2m7XE01Up:RNvMo75+unkCDoRR97k+WzSm7x1u

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, 24, CE, 40, 00, E8, 32, 95, FF, FF, 6A, 02, 6A, 00, 6A, 01, 8B, 0D, 24, CE...
 
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Entropy:
7.8876

Packer / compiler:
Inno Setup v5.x - Installer Maker

Code size:
37 KB (37,888 bytes)

The file freeaudioeditor.exe has been seen being distributed by the following 2 URLs.

http://free-audio-editor.com/FreeAudioEditor.exe

http://free-audio-editor.com/package/.../FreeAudioEditor.php

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