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guardiusbundle.exe

Guardius Installer

Perion Network Ltd.

The application guardiusbundle.exe by Perion Network has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. This is a self-extracting archive and installer and has been known to bundle potentially unwanted software. The file has been seen being downloaded from cdn.guardi.us.
Publisher:
Perion Network Ltd  (signed by Perion Network Ltd.)

Product:
Guardius Installer

Version:
4, 1, 0, 8

MD5:
3dbb4ecf2d7f02f041521e54b533181f

SHA-1:
9b552399e4115104005280d00ce31cbbf2b72126

SHA-256:
0961b0737edc5da476050d1709b23d949f5649cad42d2330cd2eacd31ae06226

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Note:
Our current pool of anti-malware engines have not currently detected this file, however based on our own detection heuristics we feel that this file is unwanted.

Analysis date:
4/25/2024 7:56:02 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Installer.Perion.O
14.3.1.1

File size:
5.9 MB (6,160,176 bytes)

Product version:
4, 1, 0, 8

Copyright:
Copyright © 2013 Perion Network Ltd.

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\microsoft\windows\temporary internet files\low\content.ie5\{random}\guardiusbundle.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Perion Network Ltd.

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
4/23/2012 5:00:00 PM

Valid to:
4/23/2015 4:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Perion Network Ltd., OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O=Perion Network Ltd., L=Tel Aviv, S=Tel Aviv, C=IL

Issuer:
CN=VeriSign Class 3 Code Signing 2010 CA, OU=Terms of use at https://www.verisign.com/rpa (c)10, OU=VeriSign Trust Network, O="VeriSign, Inc.", C=US

Serial number:
45F87694FE8D1984719796AEC8031DF4

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
11/3/2013 6:02:40 AM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
98304:EkXXdfQg67YKoA/PZcjqav4Jt9IcRPP7tKqmNcTSrxBjAaqeIO4mB0Oc5nzWkfCj:EgXd16MKooOqvt9IcRPPpKPFrD8aqeIw

Entry address:
0x890900

Entry point:
60, BE, 00, D0, 6B, 00, 8D, BE, 00, 40, D4, FF, 57, 89, E5, 8D, 9C, 24, 80, C1, FF, FF, 31, C0, 50, 39, DC, 75, FB, 46, 46, 53, 68, 4F, E7, 88, 00, 57, 83, C3, 04, 53, 68, F7, 38, 5D, 00, 56, 83, C3, 04, 53, 50, C7, 03, 03, 00, 02, 00, 90, 90, 90, 90, 90, 55, 57, 56, 53, 83, EC, 7C, 8B, 94, 24, 90, 00, 00, 00, C7, 44, 24, 74, 00, 00, 00, 00, C6, 44, 24, 73, 00, 8B, AC, 24, 9C, 00, 00, 00, 8D, 42, 04, 89, 44, 24, 78, B8, 01, 00, 00, 00, 0F, B6, 4A, 02, 89, C3, D3, E3, 89, D9, 49, 89, 4C, 24, 6C, 0F, B6, 4A...
 
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Entropy:
7.9995  (probably packed)

Code size:
5.8 MB (6,115,328 bytes)

The file guardiusbundle.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

http://cdn.guardi.us/prd/installer/bundle/.../guardiusbundle.exe

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