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hssinstaller.exe

Hotspot Shield 3.19

AnchorFree Inc

This is the downloadable installer to AnchorFree's Hotsopt Shield, an ad-supported VPN client that integrates with the browser. The free version injects ads in the web browser. The application hssinstaller.exe by AnchorFree Inc has been detected as a potentially unwanted program 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 HotspotShield installer.
Publisher:
AnchorFree Inc.  (signed by AnchorFree Inc)

Product:
Hotspot Shield 3.19

Version:
3, 19, 0, 20707

MD5:
255ad7312db22e7eeb9067feeedd6e82

SHA-1:
faa913652900e25284ecf9ad38d748c178e0841c

SHA-256:
b33f28c37ae57d4f60de180dbc065c47b589298d15201d3c3d93d9f54a6fe241

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Analysis date:
4/25/2024 8:34:32 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.AnchorFree (L)
17.3.14.16

File size:
433.7 KB (444,143 bytes)

Product version:
3, 19, 0, 20707

Copyright:
Copyright (C)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
HotspotShield

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\Program Files\hotspot shield\bin\hssinstaller.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
AnchorFree Inc

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
3/28/2011 1:00:00 AM

Valid to:
4/14/2014 12:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=AnchorFree Inc, OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O=AnchorFree Inc, L=Sunnyvale, S=California, C=US

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:
68A4A0CC448443C288A22A91D7F82126

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
10/18/2013 11:16:30 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows Console

Linker version:
10.0

Entry address:
0x26F86

Entry point:
E9, 7D, 74, FF, FF, E9, 95, FE, FF, FF, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 83, EC, 4C, A1, 18, 23, 45, 00, 33, C5, 89, 45, FC, 53, 33, DB, 57, 8B, F9, 89, 5D, C0, 89, 5D, BC, 3B, FB, 75, 1A, E8, 5D, 2C, 00, 00, C7, 00, 16, 00, 00, 00, E8, 0E, 5B, 00, 00, 83, CA, FF, 8B, C2, E9, 65, 02, 00, 00, 8B, 47, 14, 99, 8B, C8, 8B, C2, 89, 4D, D0, 83, C1, BB, 89, 45, D4, 83, D0, FF, 56, 3B, C3, 0F, 87, 37, 02, 00, 00, 72, 0C, 81, F9, 08, 04, 00, 00, 0F, 87, 29, 02, 00, 00, 8B, 47, 10, 3B, C3, 7C, 05, 83, F8, 0B, 7E, 46, 99, 6A, 0C...
 
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Entropy:
6.9733

Packer / compiler:
tElock 0.99 - 1.0 private

Code size:
259.5 KB (265,728 bytes)

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