mirovideoconverter_openinstall.exe

Participatory Culture Foundation

The application mirovideoconverter_openinstall.exe by Participatory Culture Foundation has been detected as adware by 8 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 lb.cdn.m6web.fr and multiple other hosts.
Publisher:
Participatory Culture Foundation  (signed and verified)

MD5:
696fc44700abca8da3dbb3af6201e8e6

SHA-1:
56a05ae28588fa5414f05fa12dc2160f5a80d3f1

SHA-256:
56dca99694cdbfada77d40e1f6e755ccc2b6ca3806e3d3cda8b06c8a9f28d191

Scanner detections:
8 / 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 12:48:25 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

AVG
MalSign.InstallCore
2015.0.3482

Comodo Security
Application.Win32.InstallCore.BWAN
18209

Dr.Web
Adware.InstallCore.271
9.0.1.0126

ESET NOD32
Win32/Injected (variant)
8.9752

McAfee
Artemis!696FC44700AB
5600.7138

Trend Micro House Call
TROJ_GEN.F47V0317
7.2.126

Vba32 AntiVirus
3.12.26.0

VIPRE Antivirus
Trojan.Win32.Generic
28810

File size:
669.3 KB (685,408 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
Inno Setup

Language:
Language Neutral

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

Digital Signature
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):
12288:4QFafqT0RiVnh+rCTgPfJiWbfj1UAz/cgLnMLBbeAqxTfmC253v/fQYrVJU9:4QFqqT0RipMywJiWbfjidYGbeA+ItQYA

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:
7.8088

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

Code size:
37 KB (37,888 bytes)

The file mirovideoconverter_openinstall.exe has been seen being distributed by the following 5 URLs.

http://lb.cdn.m6web.fr/d/c/a/0bd47ea580d5e7b03ac5c0bbc72cd912/57a31623/soft/.../miro-video-converter_3-0_fr_371816.exe

http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/pculture.org/mirovideoconverter//MiroConverterSetup_v1.0.5.exe

http://lb.cdn.m6web.fr/d/c/a/812a02be51839daf26a294e019c66205/579f492a/soft/.../miro-video-converter_3-0_fr_371816.exe

http://lb.cdn.m6web.fr/d/c/a/0782857b6df502bf7c278e81c3c1d990/578ca3cf/soft/.../miro-video-converter_3-0_fr_371816.exe

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