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limewire-music-free.exe

LimeWire Music

Prospera Software, Inc.

The application limewire-music-free.exe by Prospera Software 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 NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) installer. It is also typically executed from the user's temporary directory. The file has been seen being downloaded from pronetsharing.s3.amazonaws.com.
Publisher:
ProNetSharing LLC  (signed by Prospera Software, Inc.)

Product:
LimeWire Music

Version:
5.7.0.0

MD5:
369570d77011537cbec4430ecc27b39e

SHA-1:
11cb41e403677bf4c2c92f43dc396a10f5e73a92

SHA-256:
d7db85387ed0229bbfd8a50a4e260aa225052d0efeaaf56799fc048fc67dbfb7

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:
6/19/2025 1:23:52 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Prospera.Installer (M)
16.6.1.7

File size:
5.1 MB (5,327,680 bytes)

Copyright:
� ProNetSharing LLC

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\temp\{random}.tmp\limewire-music-free.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Prospera Software, Inc.

Authority:
COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:
5/23/2016 6:00:00 PM

Valid to:
5/24/2017 5:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN="Prospera Software, Inc.", O="Prospera Software, Inc.", STREET=4539 Arbor Crest Place, L=Suwanee, S=Georgia, PostalCode=30024, C=US

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

Serial number:
00CFE53341D03C1BC7A0B9019D5E2A6C82

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
2/24/2012 12:19:59 PM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
10.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
98304:nywNvI6PY31iEcAhNF1Dwsfr6oaz5j6Cu59flFOE9qVnc16Q467FvCXEJf:n5PYCYN/wy63zN69fyVc16Q44vC0Jf

Entry address:
0x39E3

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, 91, 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, C0, 82, 40, 00, 6A, 08, A3, B8, 2E, 47, 00, E8, 37, 2A, 00, 00, 55, 68, B4, 02, 00, 00, A3, D0, 2D, 47, 00, 8D, 44, 24, 38, 50, 55, 68, 1C, 93, 40, 00, FF, 15, 84, 81, 40, 00, 68, 04, 93, 40, 00, 68, C0, AD, 46, 00, E8, 19, 27, 00, 00, FF, 15, B4, 80, 40, 00, 50, BF, A0, 30, 4C, 00, 57, E8, 07, 27, 00, 00...
 
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Entropy:
7.9976

Packer / compiler:
Nullsoft install system v2.x

Code size:
28 KB (28,672 bytes)

The file limewire-music-free.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

http://pronetsharing.s3.amazonaws.com/limewire-music-free.exe

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