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miro_openinstall.exe

Participatory Culture Foundation

The application miro_openinstall.exe by Participatory Culture Foundation has been detected as adware by 10 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the Inno Setup installer. The setup program uses the InstallCore engine which may bundle additional software offers including toolbars and browser extensions. The file has been seen being downloaded from ftp.osuosl.org.
Publisher:
Participatory Culture Foundation  (signed and verified)

MD5:
caa36db0c5976ff1770ce23af00bbaee

SHA-1:
1d841a7e4e25b754e425a4b063236eef8e93b846

SHA-256:
30e9af2d1ff624dfe6d7c83925fc83036db661f2d19270570455cdc0535cd8a7

Scanner detections:
10 / 68

Status:
Adware

Explanation:
Uses the InstallCore download manager to install additional potentially unwanted software which may include extensions such as DealPly and various toolbars.

Analysis date:
4/25/2024 6:53:10 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Avira AntiVirus
ADWARE/InstallCore.Gen9
7.11.172.102

AVG
InstallCore
2015.0.3344

ESET NOD32
Win32/InstallCore.OI (variant)
8.10420

Fortinet FortiGate
Riskware/InstallCore
9/21/2014

McAfee
Artemis!CAA36DB0C597
5600.7000

Qihoo 360 Security
Win32/Virus.Adware.f22
1.0.0.1015

Reason Heuristics
PUP.ParticipatoryCultureFoundation.Q
14.9.21.21

Rising Antivirus
PE:Trojan.Win32.Generic.1742533D!390222653
23.00.65.14919

Sophos
Generic PUA BN
4.98

Trend Micro House Call
TROJ_GEN.F47V0530
7.2.264

File size:
707.4 KB (724,392 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
Inno Setup

Language:
Language Neutral

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Participatory Culture Foundation

Authority:
Starfield Technologies, Inc.

Valid from:
12/10/2012 10:53:33 PM

Valid to:
11/13/2014 4:11:52 AM

Subject:
CN=Participatory Culture Foundation, O=Participatory Culture Foundation, L=Boston, S=MA, C=US

Issuer:
CN=Starfield Secure Certificate Authority - G2, OU=http://certs.starfieldtech.com/repository/, O="Starfield Technologies, Inc.", L=Scottsdale, S=Arizona, C=US

Serial number:
4B7A89C3505610

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
6/20/1992 8:22:17 AM

OS version:
1.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.25

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:gMFak0jkh93Q7m8oBqHLAZPXFuHPZFTI/RvWWNGTYV/RHF:gMFV0AsoIHLMPXFqZJI/sWNGYV5F

Entry address:
0x9C40

Entry point:
55, 8B, EC, 83, C4, C4, 53, 56, 57, 33, C0, 89, 45, F0, 89, 45, DC, E8, 86, 94, FF, FF, E8, 8D, A6, FF, FF, E8, 1C, A9, FF, FF, E8, BF, A9, FF, FF, E8, 5E, C9, FF, FF, E8, C9, F2, FF, FF, E8, 30, F4, FF, FF, 33, C0, 55, 68, FC, A2, 40, 00, 64, FF, 30, 64, 89, 20, 33, D2, 55, 68, C5, A2, 40, 00, 64, FF, 32, 64, 89, 22, A1, 14, C0, 40, 00, E8, 96, FE, FF, FF, E8, C9, FA, FF, FF, 8D, 55, F0, 33, C0, E8, 83, CF, FF, FF, 8B, 55, F0, B8, 24, CE, 40, 00, E8, 32, 95, FF, FF, 6A, 02, 6A, 00, 6A, 01, 8B, 0D, 24, CE...
 
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Entropy:
7.8268

Packer / compiler:
Inno Setup v5.x - Installer Maker

Code size:
37 KB (37,888 bytes)

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

http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/pculture.org/miro/.../Miro_openinstall.exe

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