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FrostWire 5

Frostwire, LLC

The application frostwire-installer.exe, “The Fastest File Sharing Application on Earth” by Frostwire has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 4 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 softlayer-dal.dl.sourceforge.net and multiple other hosts.
Publisher:
FrostWire LLC  (signed by Frostwire, LLC)

Product:
FrostWire 5

Description:
The Fastest File Sharing Application on Earth

Version:
5.6.8.1

MD5:
e238942d0d10a08e27b96ba98da244f1

SHA-1:
26ffa73ee5abf575813e86cdde0cda65d73460f0

SHA-256:
0fb49d6aa2f4f37961270dc7e72d82376e9334b5bc4824a42f83ce6434aa5a11

Scanner detections:
4 / 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:
4/16/2024 12:57:19 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

ESET NOD32
Win32/OpenCandy (variant)
8.9190

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.OpenCandy
v2014.04.24.08

McAfee
Artemis!E238942D0D10
5600.7151

Rising Antivirus
PE:PUF.OpenCandy!1.9DE5
23.00.65.14422

File size:
17.3 MB (18,150,240 bytes)

Product version:
5.6.8.1

Copyright:
FrostWire LLC 2008

Original file name:
frostwire-5.6.8.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:
1/25/2012 6:00:00 PM

Valid to:
3/24/2014 6:59:59 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:
264DCE56AC64C06671DB1D22E4E51941

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
7/8/2012 6:50:55 AM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
10.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
393216:I9vkDQNmeHQpO8C0ZqWdkxUTjbPvTucHOClkIofmdlx3NWcpITptLNvHEH:YviQNmPpBBZKxynTNOClkux3N1ITpZZ+

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:
7.9887

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://softlayer-dal.dl.sourceforge.net/project/frostwire/FrostWire 5.x/.../frostwire-5.6.8.windows.coc.premium.exe

http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/frostwire/FrostWire 5.x/.../frostwire-5.6.8.windows.coc.premium.exe

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