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maelstrom.exe

Chromium Installer

BitTorrent Inc

This is a self-extracting archive and installer. The file has been seen being downloaded from optimizely-testing.browser.bittorrent.com.
Publisher:
The Chromium Authors  (signed by BitTorrent Inc)

Product:
Chromium Installer

Version:
42.0.1.17

MD5:
96a56fb76f5af93ec365d10d4f406d3e

SHA-1:
b4717b5a5cc948b230dcafa3d026e525a1408c6c

SHA-256:
8f174590370043d0a07df23e4a6f6ab0c016ddddace4ef1cddf0ecc4f8f2edbc

Scanner detections:
0 / 68

Status:
Clean (as of last analysis)

Analysis date:
4/29/2024 12:31:13 AM UTC  (today)

File size:
38.6 MB (40,465,256 bytes)

Product version:
42.0.1.17

Copyright:
Copyright 2014 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
English (United States)

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
BitTorrent Inc

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
6/4/2013 8:00:00 PM

Valid to:
9/3/2016 7:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=BitTorrent Inc, OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O=BitTorrent Inc, L=San Francisco, 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:
5732C1574E6AF828E1B4F93ABB34ED08

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
5/22/2015 6:55:02 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
12.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
786432:RXA8FO+HCFNUEAl+eH5tSSA5lzkh2WLwxOjI6wtKGm5RpleuOaYOQZb9Ys:/HCrdAHWj5lzBkADuGkeuOaYOcb/

Entry address:
0x7680

Entry point:
6A, 00, FF, 15, A4, 70, 41, 00, 50, E8, F2, 09, 00, 00, 83, C4, 04, 50, FF, 15, 90, 70, 41, 00, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, 55, 8B, EC, 81, EC, 14, 02, 00, 00, 56, 8B, 75, 14, 85, F6, 75, 09, 33, C0, 5E, 8B, E5, 5D, C2, 10, 00, 57, FF, 75, 08, 8B, 7D, 10, 8D, 4D, F8, FF, 75, 0C, 57, E8, F3, 13, 00, 00, 8D, 4D, F8, E8, 1B, 14, 00, 00, 84, C0, 0F, 84, A5, 00, 00, 00, 8D, 4D, F8, E8, 1B, 14, 00, 00, 83, F8, 01, 0F, 82, 94, 00, 00, 00, 8D, 4D, F8, E8, 0A, 14, 00, 00, 3B, 05, E4, 13, 40, 00, 0F, 87, 80, 00...
 
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Entropy:
7.9999

Packer / compiler:
FASM v1.3x

Code size:
71.5 KB (73,216 bytes)

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

http://optimizely-testing.browser.bittorrent.com/.../Maelstrom.exe

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