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frostwire-installer.exe

FrostWire 5

Frostwire, LLC

The application frostwire-installer.exe, “FrostWire - Search, Download, Play, Share.” by Frostwire has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 3 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) installer. The installer uses the OpenCandy monitzation platform which will donwload and install offers in the setup for potentially unwanted software including ad/search-supported toolbars. The file has been seen being downloaded from downloads.sourceforge.net and multiple other hosts.
Publisher:
FrostWire LLC  (signed by Frostwire, LLC)

Product:
FrostWire 5

Description:
FrostWire - Search, Download, Play, Share.

Version:
5.7.7.2

MD5:
110b910c2676e53ce7743e21da296827

SHA-1:
2169c98374b46dbdab6d93647ec37655cd52b2e1

SHA-256:
ecac41b2784da92d052dc09238f501fb94c9277928eeb05a884b54cc1b04b532

Scanner detections:
3 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Explanation:
Packages the OpenCandy software bundler that offers to install additional software and may include web browser add-ons and toolbars which display advertising (based on publisher settings and geo context).

Analysis date:
4/18/2024 6:30:52 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

ESET NOD32
Win32/OpenCandy (variant)
8.10576

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.OpenCandy
v2014.10.19.12

Reason Heuristics
PUP.OpenCandy.Installer (L)
16.12.1.15

File size:
23 MB (24,094,040 bytes)

Product version:
5.7.7.2

Copyright:
FrostWire LLC 2008

Original file name:
frostwire-5.7.7.windows.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\Program Files\frostwire 5\frostwire-installer.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Frostwire, LLC

Authority:
Thawte, Inc.

Valid from:
1/21/2014 7:00:00 PM

Valid to:
3/23/2016 7:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN="Frostwire, LLC", O="Frostwire, LLC", L=Miami Beach, S=Florida, C=US

Issuer:
CN=Thawte Code Signing CA - G2, O="Thawte, Inc.", C=US

Serial number:
35DE9D3C616713150858F57D7419F0D6

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
7/8/2012 7:50:55 AM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
10.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
393216:jtGlaADmHy/64s/igYDv4NL6mm4b9jTF1sclXnyAa2zVJT5iA8iX3WoxJjWTC/y6:xGakmHIdrgYgNLpm4hjTFN7HzNZioxlB

Entry address:
0x3A02

Entry point:
81, EC, D4, 02, 00, 00, 53, 55, 56, 57, 6A, 20, 33, ED, 5E, 89, 6C, 24, 18, C7, 44, 24, 10, F0, 91, 40, 00, 89, 6C, 24, 14, FF, 15, 30, 80, 40, 00, 68, 01, 80, 00, 00, FF, 15, B8, 80, 40, 00, 55, FF, 15, C0, 82, 40, 00, 6A, 08, A3, B8, 2E, 47, 00, E8, 38, 2A, 00, 00, 55, 68, B4, 02, 00, 00, A3, D0, 2D, 47, 00, 8D, 44, 24, 38, 50, 55, 68, 34, 93, 40, 00, FF, 15, 84, 81, 40, 00, 68, 1C, 93, 40, 00, 68, C0, AD, 46, 00, E8, 1A, 27, 00, 00, FF, 15, B4, 80, 40, 00, 50, BF, A0, 30, 4C, 00, 57, E8, 08, 27, 00, 00...
 
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Entropy:
7.9931

Packer / compiler:
Nullsoft install system v2.x

Code size:
28 KB (28,672 bytes)

The file frostwire-installer.exe has been seen being distributed by the following 2 URLs.

http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/frostwire/FrostWire 5.x/.../frostwire-5.7.7.windows.coc.premium.exe

http://dl.frostwire.com/frostwire/.../frostwire-5.7.7.windows.coc.premium.exe

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