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halflife-setup-1.exe

Tucows Inc.

The application halflife-setup-1.exe by Tucows has been detected as adware by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. The program is a setup application that uses the NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) installer.
Publisher:
Tucows Inc.  (signed and verified)

MD5:
c9fe584e13515d2bc6fd1920e428f751

SHA-1:
2945c79e2046d62634021083c3711e6b5c6f844b

SHA-256:
71a1722f375081605dd157e4f9a51e319bb544e6796e284a4510acdfcff68bd5

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Adware

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:
4/18/2024 7:41:08 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Tucows.Installer (M)
16.2.14.13

File size:
833.1 KB (853,136 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)

Language:
Language Neutral

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\microsoft\windows\inetcache\ie\{random}\halflife-setup-1.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Tucows Inc.

Authority:
COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:
8/21/2013 2:00:00 AM

Valid to:
8/21/2016 1:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=Tucows Inc., O=Tucows Inc., STREET=96 Mowat Ave., L=Toronto, S=Ontario, PostalCode=M6K 3M1, C=CA

Issuer:
CN=COMODO Code Signing CA 2, O=COMODO CA Limited, L=Salford, S=Greater Manchester, C=GB

Serial number:
4A452F2DD2EEA6072814A28EF2F01AEE

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
12/7/2014 6:56:37 PM

OS version:
6.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
12.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:D9jnxpJA9Kua6nPQSQsTnmc0Q9FxDNiZzSfOr0+z3962z7NbkGfxReeU:xjxpW93nn0InTJDN2efOr0+kaVxRU

Entry address:
0x3522

Entry point:
81, EC, 78, 01, 00, 00, 53, 55, 56, 33, DB, C6, 44, 24, 0C, 20, 57, 8B, EB, BF, A0, 83, 40, 00, 8B, F3, E8, FC, 3C, 00, 00, FF, 15, 08, 87, 40, 00, 68, 01, 80, 00, 00, FF, 15, AC, 80, 40, 00, 53, FF, 15, 0C, 87, 40, 00, 6A, 08, A3, C4, 4C, 42, 00, E8, 26, 2A, 00, 00, 53, 68, 60, 01, 00, 00, A3, 50, 44, 42, 00, 8D, 44, 24, 30, 50, 53, 68, E3, 83, 40, 00, FF, 15, 50, 81, 40, 00, 68, E4, 83, 40, 00, 68, 60, 44, 42, 00, E8, 40, 2C, 00, 00, FF, 15, A8, 80, 40, 00, 50, 68, 00, A0, 42, 00, E8, 2F, 2C, 00, 00, 53...
 
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Entropy:
7.4941

Packer / compiler:
Nullsoft install system v2.x

Code size:
25 KB (25,600 bytes)

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