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Discordia Limited

The file nickel.ocx by Discordia Limited has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat.
Publisher:
Discordia Limited  (signed and verified)

MD5:
d4f2201dc7a02a8d581406af45636875

SHA-1:
98f92e213e3ba8a6f2761dee503d544e7b6228b9

SHA-256:
cdc4b38b89188ef8fac7f9d478c456e5287b49c235a0e2203e8d417828788eb8

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

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:
4/26/2024 9:58:08 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Discordia (M)
16.2.13.5

File size:
637.4 KB (652,736 bytes)

File type:
OLE control extension (Win32 OCX)

Common path:
C:\Program Files\shareaza applications\shareaza\nickel.ocx

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Discordia Limited

Authority:
Thawte Consulting (Pty) Ltd.

Valid from:
6/22/2010 8:00:00 PM

Valid to:
7/14/2012 7:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Discordia Limited, OU=SECURE APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT, O=Discordia Limited, L=Limassol, S=Limassol, C=CY

Issuer:
CN=Thawte Code Signing CA, O=Thawte Consulting (Pty) Ltd., C=ZA

Serial number:
365134344F55842D5CCE133A8C629064

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
7/22/2010 2:46:50 PM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:jqew07DJ5ilOXMIDtAakkTNonHymv0S2C:W0LT3tAlkTOp0S2C

Entry address:
0x48366

Entry point:
8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 83, 7D, 0C, 01, 75, 05, E8, ED, 6D, 00, 00, FF, 75, 08, 8B, 4D, 10, 8B, 55, 0C, E8, EC, FE, FF, FF, 59, 5D, C2, 0C, 00, 55, 8B, EC, 83, EC, 04, 89, 7D, FC, 8B, 7D, 08, 8B, 4D, 0C, C1, E9, 07, 66, 0F, EF, C0, EB, 08, 8D, A4, 24, 00, 00, 00, 00, 90, 66, 0F, 7F, 07, 66, 0F, 7F, 47, 10, 66, 0F, 7F, 47, 20, 66, 0F, 7F, 47, 30, 66, 0F, 7F, 47, 40, 66, 0F, 7F, 47, 50, 66, 0F, 7F, 47, 60, 66, 0F, 7F, 47, 70, 8D, BF, 80, 00, 00, 00, 49, 75, D0, 8B, 7D, FC, 8B, E5, 5D, C3, 55, 8B, EC, 83, EC, 10...
 
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Entropy:
6.5343

Code size:
355 KB (363,520 bytes)

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