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FreemiumUtilities.exe

Freemium System Utilities

Covus Freemium GmbH

The application FreemiumUtilities.exe by Covus Freemium GmbH has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 3 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the Covus installer.
Publisher:
Freemium  (signed by Covus Freemium GmbH)

Product:
Freemium System Utilities

Version:
1.1.0.0

MD5:
d7d063a675defc1d5be10aade35d6c75

SHA-1:
4bba3337dcca57303ac0ff94edafdab0bf683767

SHA-256:
8887463e14e013419be6063ad375bddb2ee0d37e021b28657ab7f9508cb12702

Scanner detections:
3 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Explanation:
Includes bundled offers in the installer/download manager that include adware components such as Best-markit, and Search Protect (ClientConnect).

Description:
This 'download manager' is also considered bundleware, a utility designed to download software (possibly legitimate or opensource) and bundle it with a number of optional offers including ad-supported utilities, toolbars, shopping comparison tools and browser extensions.

Analysis date:
4/25/2024 7:59:13 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

AVG
Covusfreemium
2015.0.3404

NANO AntiVirus
Trojan.Win32.Siggen6.cuswxj
0.28.0.58720

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Optional.CovusFreemiumGmbH.R
14.7.23.22

File size:
1.2 MB (1,209,712 bytes)

Product version:
1.1.0.0

Copyright:
Copyright © 2012

Original file name:
FreemiumUtilities.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
Covus

Language:
Language Neutral

Common path:
C:\Program Files\covus freemium\free system utilities\freemiumutilities.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Covus Freemium GmbH

Authority:
GlobalSign nv-sa

Valid from:
1/28/2013 10:21:57 AM

Valid to:
1/29/2015 10:21:57 AM

Subject:
CN=Covus Freemium GmbH, O=Covus Freemium GmbH, L=Berlin, S=Berlin, C=DE

Issuer:
CN=GlobalSign CodeSigning CA - G2, O=GlobalSign nv-sa, C=BE

Serial number:
11211DBCB8A07ED407612FC406EFD259BE29

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
1/15/2014 11:44:53 AM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
8.0

.NET CLR dependent:
Yes

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:c9mVeX1JXQ8Tr3TfGDj60axeZ++QrJ6OlY9A05MF5fsuOmBWtC7YwAoJAMJoFR:c1JXiacZtQrJwS9suOSW47nUR

Entry address:
0x1231C8

Entry point:
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Developed / compiled with:
Microsoft Visual C# / Basic .NET

Code size:
1.1 MB (1,184,256 bytes)

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