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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 6 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 icdn.getmirofiles.com and multiple other hosts.
Publisher:
Participatory Culture Foundation  (signed and verified)

MD5:
49a872a0e1b9df8161d2b38169b45ad4

SHA-1:
9cb399dfe65941947fd6ea58ae4b5f82ec3d1934

SHA-256:
b720d0c6763cd72bc1375611137ce659254c8ef5ccbf02310c4185b5db4a33f8

Scanner detections:
6 / 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:
4/20/2024 11:26:19 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Avira AntiVirus
ADWARE/InstallCore.Gen9
7.11.166.78

AVG
InstallCore
2015.0.3424

ESET NOD32
Win32/InstallCore.PO potentially unwanted application
7.0.302.0

McAfee
Trojan.Artemis!49A872A0E1B9
16.8.708.2

Sophos
Generic PUA JM
4.98

Trend Micro House Call
Suspicious_GEN.F47V0701
7.2.226

File size:
707.6 KB (724,568 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 7:53:33 AM

Valid to:
11/12/2014 1:11:52 PM

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:
6/19/1992 6:22:17 PM

OS version:
1.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.25

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:EnFaj/93ZBkQguAWPnnjH4aA5stei6X3jOhTwCfzVXKXI8ao8DWickw:EnFy/93VgSn7i5tX3QTwCBarIc

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:
7.8279

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 2 URLs.

http://icdn.getmirofiles.com/Miro_openinstall.exe

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

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