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Hamster Free Video Converter

Hamster Soft

The application hamsterfreevideoconverter.exe, “Hamster Free Video Converter Setup ” by Hamster Soft has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 4 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the Inno Setup 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.
Publisher:
HamsterSoft, Inc.   (signed by Hamster Soft)

Product:
Hamster Free Video Converter

Description:
Hamster Free Video Converter Setup

MD5:
6ea3a71bca27e2d4eda10ba3374dc859

SHA-1:
e79428a58d8b7c92454b35a1f74c6ab8df400dc7

SHA-256:
a2c4d444be9e04a36bc16cd5f0ac8f2e4de8cf4eb455411c6c101114fde32bd5

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:
4/24/2024 1:43:51 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

ESET NOD32
Win32/OpenCandy potentially unsafe
10.11720

G Data
Win32.Adware.OpenCandy
16.1.25

NANO AntiVirus
Trojan.Win32.OpenCandy.bkjsno
0.30.24.1636

Reason Heuristics
PUP.OpenCandy.Installer (L)
16.1.10.13

File size:
14.2 MB (14,938,016 bytes)

Copyright:
Copyright @ 2010 Hamster Soft, Inc.

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
Inno Setup

Language:
Language Neutral

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\wmvtoavi\hamsterfreevideoconverter.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Hamster Soft

Authority:
Thawte Consulting (Pty) Ltd.

Valid from:
6/8/2010 1:00:00 AM

Valid to:
6/5/2012 12:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=Hamster Soft, O=Hamster Soft, L=Moscow, S=Moscow, C=RU

Issuer:
CN=Thawte Code Signing CA, O=Thawte Consulting (Pty) Ltd., C=ZA

Serial number:
7ACDA7820AD62FCCEA4F1ED5739324A3

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
6/10/2010 3:33:52 PM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.25

CTPH (ssdeep):
393216:7ZKeYn02Rmvr5Y/TDlNJ5tgEDTKj4/twm0k7fi:NKeY+qNLtgWTj/HHfi

Entry address:
0x163C4

Entry point:
55, 8B, EC, 83, C4, A4, 53, 56, 57, 33, C0, 89, 45, C4, 89, 45, C0, 89, 45, A4, 89, 45, D0, 89, 45, C8, 89, 45, CC, 89, 45, D4, 89, 45, D8, 89, 45, EC, B8, 54, 55, 41, 00, E8, 70, 04, FF, FF, 33, C0, 55, 68, 91, 6A, 41, 00, 64, FF, 30, 64, 89, 20, 33, D2, 55, 68, 4D, 6A, 41, 00, 64, FF, 32, 64, 89, 22, A1, 48, AB, 41, 00, E8, A6, EF, FF, FF, E8, B1, EA, FF, FF, 8D, 55, EC, 33, C0, E8, FB, 87, FF, FF, 8B, 55, EC, B8, A8, D6, 41, 00, E8, A6, EA, FE, FF, 6A, 02, 6A, 00, 6A, 01, 8B, 0D, A8, D6, 41, 00, B2, 01...
 
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Entropy:
7.9990

Developed / compiled with:
Microsoft Visual C++

Code size:
85 KB (87,040 bytes)

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