little_registry_cleaner_07_07_2013.exe

Little Registry Cleaner

Nicholas Hamnett

The application little_registry_cleaner_07_07_2013.exe, “Open source registry cleaner” by Nicholas Hamnett has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 2 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) installer. The file has been seen being downloaded from cznic.dl.sourceforge.net and multiple other hosts.
Publisher:
Little Apps  (signed by Nicholas Hamnett)

Product:
Little Registry Cleaner

Description:
Open source registry cleaner

Version:
1.6.0

MD5:
f4f8aa0c0a0d5b0f5522012b481a048e

SHA-1:
bd477c7834255a12b2351adc2a2843bdcd14cb98

SHA-256:
2c20f5a77b42c855be4e4e91c65070e736008875055cd16cef0c565df52f4153

Scanner detections:
2 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Analysis date:
4/24/2024 8:53:28 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Optional.NicholasHamnett.c
14.10.1.11

VIPRE Antivirus
LooksLike.Win32.Malware!C
25644

File size:
5.3 MB (5,607,392 bytes)

Copyright:
Copyright © Little Apps 2008

Trademarks:
Little Apps are licensed under the GNU General Public License v3

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\little_registry_cleaner_07_07_2013.exe

Digital Signature
Authority:
StartCom Ltd.

Valid from:
4/24/2012 9:41:05 AM

Valid to:
4/26/2014 10:51:05 AM

Subject:
E=nick@little-apps.org, CN=Nicholas Hamnett, L=Calgary, S=Alberta, C=CA, Description=1SALusP98pZrQP0b

Issuer:
CN=StartCom Class 2 Primary Intermediate Object CA, OU=Secure Digital Certificate Signing, O=StartCom Ltd., C=IL

Serial number:
05F0

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
4/10/2010 8:19:31 PM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
98304:XTwmEQp+8u71g/lJxv9Eyh0KqPF10bcNr/7POHXGbM/0GUjo/:XTwmvUg5VX+F1ucN818jm

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:
7.9983

Packer / compiler:
Nullsoft install system v2.x

Code size:
25 KB (25,600 bytes)

The file little_registry_cleaner_07_07_2013.exe has been seen being distributed by the following 12 URLs.

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