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Musicnotes Software Suite

Musicnotes, Inc.

The application musicnotessuite.exe, “Musicnotes Software Suite Setup ” by Musicnotes has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 3 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the Inno Setup installer. The installer uses the OpenCandy monitzation platform which will donwload and install offers in the setup for potentially unwanted software including ad/search-supported toolbars. The file has been seen being downloaded from www.musicnotes.com.
Publisher:
Musicnotes Inc.   (signed by Musicnotes, Inc.)

Product:
Musicnotes Software Suite

Description:
Musicnotes Software Suite Setup

Version:
1.7.2.0

MD5:
cf746d431969c744aefb35729befb471

SHA-1:
f94de5eabad936b3f441c52137af786653a9ba83

SHA-256:
d10f921e44dac59f7cd7f0579ebb28aa157af69f59b560cbb14988b3c6ef7381

Scanner detections:
3 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Explanation:
Packages the OpenCandy software bundler that offers to install additional software and may include web browser add-ons and toolbars which display advertising (based on publisher settings and geo context).

Analysis date:
4/26/2024 6:55:08 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

ESET NOD32
Win32/OpenCandy
8.9709

NANO AntiVirus
Trojan.Win32.OpenCandy.cuezcw
0.28.0.59492

Reason Heuristics
PUP.OpenCandy.Installer (L)
16.12.1.1

File size:
18.4 MB (19,256,304 bytes)

Product version:
1.7.2

Copyright:
Copyright © 1997-2012 Musicnotes Inc., All Rights Reserved

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
Inno Setup

Language:
Language Neutral

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\Musicnotessuite.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Musicnotes, Inc.

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
7/11/2012 7:00:00 PM

Valid to:
8/28/2015 6:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN="Musicnotes, Inc.", OU=Musicnotes, OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O="Musicnotes, Inc.", L=Madison, S=Wisconsin, 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:
5012A7A5CAD70DFC772BE17AB03A4342

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
6/19/1992 5:22:17 PM

OS version:
1.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.25

CTPH (ssdeep):
393216:UvHpxVgmGJ2t+OoXOL+Ox7bSRAZq2AcJXTcBMuKAvR6IzeESxHpVmZ:sH7Vgr++ui07YAZVAcJXTcBMuKpILIpu

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, 53, C9, FF, FF, E8, 9A, 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, E8, CD, 40, 00, E8, 32, 95, FF, FF, 6A, 02, 6A, 00, 6A, 01, 8B, 0D, E8, CD...
 
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Entropy:
7.9998

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

Code size:
37 KB (37,888 bytes)

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

http://www.musicnotes.com/.../musicnotessuite.exe

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