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miroconvertersetup.exe

Participatory Culture Foundation

The application miroconvertersetup.exe by Participatory Culture Foundation has been detected as adware 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. The file has been seen being downloaded from www.ptsi-eiffel-bordeaux.fr and multiple other hosts.
Publisher:
Participatory Culture Foundation  (signed and verified)

MD5:
1b270b89714146b19fc347eee356c1b4

SHA-1:
d50c915a1362a10edc3610520e70c3f7bac4cc86

SHA-256:
6c118ed7586c511a3749def926526f2f1068bfdb4188ba54dcd4d58ff693dae7

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Adware

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:
4/25/2024 11:54:27 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.ParticipatoryCultureFoundation.Installer (M)
15.7.25.15

File size:
12.9 MB (13,533,048 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Participatory Culture Foundation

Authority:
Starfield Technologies, Inc.

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

Valid to:
11/12/2014 6:11:52 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:
12/5/2009 10:50:41 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
196608:RCE9tqbYdRIlgcZsewYH9t/NdEeXql4Vat8Yyt35EQCX4/JGamcgyCfz+QxWE:RswryTJP68NVVCX4/JGaKfCQxWE

Entry address:
0x30CB

Entry point:
81, EC, 80, 01, 00, 00, 53, 55, 56, 33, DB, 57, 89, 5C, 24, 18, C7, 44, 24, 10, 60, 91, 40, 00, 33, F6, C6, 44, 24, 14, 20, FF, 15, 30, 70, 40, 00, 68, 01, 80, 00, 00, FF, 15, B0, 70, 40, 00, 53, FF, 15, 7C, 72, 40, 00, 6A, 08, A3, 38, 3F, 42, 00, E8, F1, 2B, 00, 00, A3, 84, 3E, 42, 00, 53, 8D, 44, 24, 34, 68, 60, 01, 00, 00, 50, 53, 68, 30, F4, 41, 00, FF, 15, 58, 71, 40, 00, 68, 54, 91, 40, 00, 68, 80, 36, 42, 00, E8, A4, 28, 00, 00, FF, 15, AC, 70, 40, 00, BF, 00, 90, 42, 00, 50, 57, E8, 92, 28, 00, 00...
 
[+]

Entropy:
7.9999

Packer / compiler:
Nullsoft install system v2.x

Code size:
22.5 KB (23,040 bytes)

The file miroconvertersetup.exe has been seen being distributed by the following 8 URLs.

http://www.ptsi-eiffel-bordeaux.fr/mod/.../view.php?id=629

https://c.sproutvideo.com/MVC-3.0-signed.exe

http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/pculture.org/.../MVC-3.0-signed.exe

http://f51.y8top.net/2107tmp/cf/soft/2015/3/ba/.../miro-video-converter_30.exe

http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/pculture.org/mirovideoconverter//MVC-3.0-signed.exe

http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/pculture.org/mirovideoconverter//MiroConverterSetup.exe

http://www.otpcappcon.com/.../MiroConverterSetup.exe

http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/pculture.org/.../MiroConverterSetup.exe

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