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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 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 dl.frostwire.com and multiple other hosts.
Publisher:
FrostWire LLC  (signed by Frostwire, LLC)

Product:
FrostWire 5

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

Version:
5.7.7.1

MD5:
73c4b90259779e1bde420b00d025a75e

SHA-1:
eee1c4ccb676bca3f8f50df183dbac6978c45cfc

SHA-256:
7b28d071038a8747ce59e309d73b80f0c2663496a50ff97e3d2b0358dcd7a081

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:
5/4/2024 1:59:01 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Dr.Web
Adware.OpenCandy.47
9.0.1.0276

ESET NOD32
Win32/OpenCandy (variant)
8.10501

G Data
Win32.Adware.OpenCandy
14.10.24

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.OpenCandy
v2014.10.03.01

File size:
23 MB (24,093,872 bytes)

Product version:
5.7.7.1

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 6:00:00 PM

Valid to:
3/23/2016 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:
35DE9D3C616713150858F57D7419F0D6

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:vco+69W1t4+Vuh3kHx6hGidheE+KRX535KmVT2Gn8XjmEc0KmHg:vco+0W1t4Iuho4GidhexKx5gmVaGujmt

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 4 URLs.

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

http://down.filepuma.com/files/p2p-and-file-sharing/.../FrostWire_v5.7.7.exe

http://www.filepuma.com/down/1412966112c7031/frostwire_5.7.7/.../0/

http://www.filepuma.com/file/1412966112c7031/frostwire_5.7.7/.../0/

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