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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 filehippo.com 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:
8923f981d104f4c767ae3e510baf9dc8

SHA-1:
a913fd45a3a701711cdf78d3630eb5d97108c73a

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:
4/19/2024 10:08:39 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.OpenCandy
v2014.04.14.09

Reason Heuristics
PUP.OpenCandy (M)
16.11.29.17

Rising Antivirus
PE:PUF.OpenCandy!1.9DE5
23.00.65.14412

Trend Micro House Call
TROJ_GEN.F47V1112
7.2.104

File size:
17.7 MB (18,585,288 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:
1/26/2012 12:00:00 AM

Valid to:
3/24/2014 11:59:59 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 12:50:55 PM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
10.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
393216:tjBDLy1ghjJZre9H5ieGnCIg/BhsDnM0efFJrm0El6n+APdEF8twY:tjBbjJsxQeGbgzsDyG0u6nXPsY

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:
7.9891

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 3 URLs.

http://filehippo.com/download/file/.../

http://filehippo.com/download/file/.../

http://dl.frostwire.com/frostwire/.../frostwire-5.6.8.windows.exe

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