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keygen.exe

4shared Desktop Setup

New IT Limited

This is a bundle installer which bundles applications with offers for additional 3rd party software, mostly unwanted adware, and may be installed with minimal consent. The application keygen.exe by New IT Limited has been detected as adware by 13 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the New IT Desktop Setup installer. This version of the installer will bundle the Ask.com Toolbar, a potentially unwanted web browser extension. The file has been seen being downloaded from rt3.getdownload.net.
Publisher:
New IT Solutions  (signed by New IT Limited)

Product:
4shared Desktop Setup

Version:
4.0.3.1

MD5:
90f5d611052c548763fc577461fcf47b

SHA-1:
bf3e3f489aedb08a6f2b5e7f6d886eaa320aca8c

SHA-256:
75ed3c869ebfb5752815172cc20095b0b732f0349809864c305f99422c851138

Scanner detections:
13 / 68

Status:
Adware

Explanation:
Bundles that Ask.com toolbar as a third-party offer, a web browser extension that may modify a user's search and home pages.

Description:
This is also known as bundleware, or downloadware, which is an downloader designed to simply deliver ad-supported offers in the setup routine of an otherwise legitimate software.

Analysis date:
4/26/2024 4:02:59 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Agnitum Outpost
PUA.Toolbar.Ask
7.1.1

avast!
Win32:Toolbar-N [PUP]
2014.9-140910

Bkav FE
W32.Clod979.Trojan
1.3.0.4613

Comodo Security
Application.Win32.NewIT.B
17947

Dr.Web
Adware.Downware.1417
9.0.1.0253

ESET NOD32
Win32/Bundled.Toolbar.Ask (variant)
8.9075

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.4Shared
v2014.09.10.10

McAfee
Artemis!A8563F17A5F3
5600.7011

NANO AntiVirus
Trojan.Win32.Downware.cumjmn
0.28.0.58491

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Installer.NewITLimited.G
14.9.10.22

Rising Antivirus
PE:PUF.4Shared!1.9C25
23.00.65.14908

SUPERAntiSpyware
Trojan.Agent/Gen-Nullo[Short]
10367

Trend Micro House Call
TROJ_GEN.F47V0812
7.2.253

File size:
5.5 MB (5,770,848 bytes)

Copyright:
New IT Solutions

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
New IT Desktop Setup (using Nullsoft Install System)

Language:
Language Neutral

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
New IT Limited

Authority:
GoDaddy.com, Inc.

Valid from:
11/16/2012 8:16:05 PM

Valid to:
11/16/2013 6:30:34 PM

Subject:
CN=New IT Limited, O=New IT Limited, L=Nicosia, S=Nicosia, C=CY

Issuer:
SERIALNUMBER=07969287, CN=Go Daddy Secure Certification Authority, OU=http://certificates.godaddy.com/repository, O="GoDaddy.com, Inc.", L=Scottsdale, S=Arizona, C=US

Serial number:
2B2A165690BBAA

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
4/10/2010 3:19:31 PM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
98304:sWO7Z+ByxlOyexgcs6ArgkStxQM7osPuI+sPtumURA8oGNoD8MyeDFtGi5PHgS4A:st78By/OyexgT1l+P7jPz+dtHoKc/GMH

Entry address:
0x354B

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, D8, 84, 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, B0, 82, 40, 00, 6A, 08, A3, 98, 06, 47, 00, E8, 67, 27, 00, 00, 55, 68, B4, 02, 00, 00, A3, B0, 05, 47, 00, 8D, 44, 24, 38, 50, 55, 68, 1C, 86, 40, 00, FF, 15, 80, 81, 40, 00, 68, 04, 86, 40, 00, 68, A0, 85, 46, 00, E8, 35, 26, 00, 00, FF, 15, B4, 80, 40, 00, 50, BF, A0, 10, 4C, 00, 57, E8, 23, 26, 00, 00...
 
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Entropy:
7.9938

Packer / compiler:
Nullsoft install system v2.x

Code size:
25 KB (25,600 bytes)

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

http://rt3.getdownload.net/downloadhelper/named/desktop_4031/be3c_2Oa/.../Keygen.exe

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