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freethemedia.exe

The application freethemedia.exe has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 5 anti-malware scanners. 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 www.mspowerpack.com.
MD5:
a2ba50df8c65df47c2c70d882adc105c

SHA-1:
88538609280e89e2243bb41ba29c46a1d984c6ca

SHA-256:
0387ec46156f820ff3a14ef03a14e95cf4284a8845d04fee2c7c4a9287e3b3e3

Scanner detections:
5 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Analysis date:
5/18/2024 4:54:56 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

avast!
Win32:Evo-gen [Susp]
160414-2

Dr.Web
Adware.PowerPack.38
9.0.1.05190

ESET NOD32
Win32/AdWare.Linkular.AJ application
8.0.319.0

F-Prot
W32/Linkun.A (exact, not disinfectable)
4.6.5.141

McAfee
Program.Artemis!6181B853CF4C
18.0.204.0

File size:
443.1 KB (453,776 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)

Language:
Language Neutral

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

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
12/5/2009 4:52:01 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:gnZk3sc3Xy9uTk4FF1g38Hx1iCJXOyC1aNJjrlIpGPy7:gne3N3i9uTk4rH1fiaNhRIpGPy7

Entry address:
0x30CB

Entry point:
81, EC, 80, 01, 00, 00, 53, 55, 56, 33, DB, 57, 89, 5C, 24, 18, C7, 44, 24, 10, 60, 91, 40, 00, 33, F6, C6, 44, 24, 14, 20, FF, 15, 30, 70, 40, 00, 68, 01, 80, 00, 00, FF, 15, B0, 70, 40, 00, 53, FF, 15, 7C, 72, 40, 00, 6A, 08, A3, 38, 6F, 44, 00, E8, F1, 2B, 00, 00, A3, 84, 6E, 44, 00, 53, 8D, 44, 24, 34, 68, 60, 01, 00, 00, 50, 53, 68, 30, 9C, 42, 00, FF, 15, 58, 71, 40, 00, 68, 54, 91, 40, 00, 68, 80, 2E, 44, 00, E8, A4, 28, 00, 00, FF, 15, AC, 70, 40, 00, BF, 00, F0, 46, 00, 50, 57, E8, 92, 28, 00, 00...
 
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Entropy:
7.9124

Packer / compiler:
Nullsoft install system v2.x

Code size:
22.5 KB (23,040 bytes)

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

http://www.mspowerpack.com/ds-exe/373/.../Freethemedia.exe

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