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freeziphelper.exe

Nicetex Ltd

The application freeziphelper.exe by Nicetex has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 6 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) installer. This version of the installer will bundle the Ask.com Toolbar, a potentially unwanted web browser extension. The file has been seen being downloaded from ziplockerz.com.
Publisher:
Nicetex Ltd  (signed and verified)

MD5:
0709b064ad6a2f2655e10dba899bb9f5

SHA-1:
39a6347341ceac4b6abd99f97b3aed1b28dc3083

SHA-256:
55601796e3e2536a8a4a75410ae5038db66e53d482b79ec2b9c0e2465ad39786

Scanner detections:
6 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Explanation:
Bundles that Ask.com toolbar as a third-party offer, a web browser extension that may modify a user's search and home pages.

Analysis date:
4/26/2024 4:34:55 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

avast!
Win32:Malware-gen
2014.9-150503

ESET NOD32
Win32/Bundled.Toolbar.Ask.G potentially unsafe (variant)
9.11516

G Data
Win32.Trojan.Agent.A0FL1Z
15.5.25

K7 AntiVirus
Trojan
13.203.15677

Reason Heuristics
Threat.Installer.Nicetex
15.5.3.17

Trend Micro House Call
Suspicious_GEN.F47V0308
7.2.123

File size:
2.3 MB (2,379,968 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\packages\windows_ie_ac_001\ac\inetcache\{random}\freeziphelper.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Nicetex Ltd

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
9/29/2013 8:00:00 PM

Valid to:
9/30/2015 7:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Nicetex Ltd, OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O=Nicetex Ltd, L=Hong Kong, S=Hong Kong, C=HK

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:
2DD8F3D5B9C9F70F512CB8B8D6A2D2D0

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
12/5/2009 5:50:46 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
49152:0VxhoZUvvAO3pSDUzQcDuBypThMYohPLL5svOQy9Z/qt1aXUFLf:0zyZUvoCDZPhoRLLIO/ZzXUVf

Entry address:
0x323C

Entry point:
81, EC, 80, 01, 00, 00, 53, 55, 56, 33, DB, 57, 89, 5C, 24, 18, C7, 44, 24, 10, 30, 91, 40, 00, 33, F6, C6, 44, 24, 14, 20, FF, 15, 30, 70, 40, 00, 68, 01, 80, 00, 00, FF, 15, B4, 70, 40, 00, 53, FF, 15, 7C, 72, 40, 00, 6A, 08, A3, 58, 3F, 42, 00, E8, 09, 2C, 00, 00, A3, A4, 3E, 42, 00, 53, 8D, 44, 24, 34, 68, 60, 01, 00, 00, 50, 53, 68, 58, F4, 41, 00, FF, 15, 58, 71, 40, 00, 68, B8, 91, 40, 00, 68, A0, 36, 42, 00, E8, BC, 28, 00, 00, FF, 15, B0, 70, 40, 00, BF, 00, 90, 42, 00, 50, 57, E8, AA, 28, 00, 00...
 
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Entropy:
7.9900

Packer / compiler:
Nullsoft install system v2.x

Code size:
23 KB (23,552 bytes)

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

http://ziplockerz.com/FreeZipHelper.exe

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