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frostwire-installer.exe

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 5 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 files.filepuma.com and multiple other hosts.
Publisher:
FrostWire LLC  (signed by Frostwire, LLC)

Product:
FrostWire 5

Description:
The Fastest File Sharing Application on Earth

Version:
5.7.0.1

MD5:
6de6928a085106176d9346c0e18695f2

SHA-1:
abacaca85b7d8bb7c98f171e973b03e4729836ef

SHA-256:
49100734785c3ac19484429071f14f97d2902e744ee73d6afdc4dbe59a8922f8

Scanner detections:
5 / 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:
4/26/2024 2:34:20 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

ESET NOD32
Win32/OpenCandy (variant)
8.9368

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.OpenCandy
v2014.02.05.08

McAfee
Artemis!6DE6928A0851
5600.7228

Rising Antivirus
PE:PUF.OpenCandy!1.9DE5
23.00.65.14203

Trend Micro House Call
TROJ_GEN.F47V0125
7.2.36

File size:
21 MB (21,971,720 bytes)

Product version:
5.7.0.1

Copyright:
FrostWire LLC 2008

Original file name:
frostwire-5.7.0.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:
1/22/2014 12:00:00 AM

Valid to:
3/23/2016 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:
35DE9D3C616713150858F57D7419F0D6

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:FohFZDmUdxUfRJWXOH8ALBZiKwhaO05jjG2bdKvFvEDbIth5xr73N:FKTDmUdxaJnn4KXO052kUvFM/khbN

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:
7.9919

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 4 URLs.

http://files.filepuma.com/files/p2p-and-file-sharing/.../FrostWire_v5.7.0.exe

http://www.filepuma.com/down/1393262956c5082/frostwire_5.7.0/.../0/

http://www.filepuma.com/file/1393262956c5082/frostwire_5.7.0/.../0/

http://dl.frostwire.com/frostwire/.../frostwire-5.7.0.windows.coc.premium.exe

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