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palemoon.exe

Pale Moon

Moonchild Productions

The executable palemoon.exe, “Pale Moon web browser” has been detected as malware by 35 anti-virus scanners. Infected by an entry-point obscuring polymorphic file infector which will create a peer-to-peer botnet and receives URLs of additional files to download.
Publisher:
Moonchild Productions

Product:
Pale Moon

Description:
Pale Moon web browser

Version:
25.2.1

MD5:
45da69715d7bae0458aff162ee0b1932

SHA-1:
ff4e6ae45f02c4a89c8e50fd5594c9936e75d972

SHA-256:
131ef20bbcc314658467cf70594edeb82b29ad41096f66d40b3b6c13c1e71b54

Scanner detections:
35 / 68

Status:
File is infected by a Virus

Explanation:
The file is infected by a polymorphic file infector virus.

Analysis date:
4/29/2024 3:53:07 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Win32.Sality.3
5801256

Agnitum Outpost
Win32.Sality.BK
7.1.1

AhnLab V3 Security
Win32/Kashu.E
2015.08.31

Avira AntiVirus
W32/Sality.AT
8.3.2.2

Arcabit
Win32.Sality.3
1.0.0.425

avast!
Win32:SaliCode
150828-0

AVG
Win32/Sality
2015.0.4355

Baidu Antivirus
Virus.Win32.Sality.$Emu
4.0.3.15830

Bitdefender
Win32.Sality.3
1.0.20.1210

Comodo Security
Virus.Win32.Sality.gen
23117

Dr.Web
Win32.Sector.30
9.0.1.05190

Emsisoft Anti-Malware
Win32.Sality
10.0.0.5366

ESET NOD32
Win32/Sality.NBA virus
7.0.302.0

F-Prot
W32/Sality.gen2
4.6.5.141

F-Secure
Win32.Sality.3
5.14.151

G Data
Win32.Sality
15.8.25

IKARUS anti.virus
Virus.Win32.Sality
t3scan.1.9.5.0

K7 AntiVirus
Virus
13.2017055

Kaspersky
Virus.Win32.Sality
15.0.0.543

McAfee
Virus.W32/Sality.gen.z
18.0.204.0

Microsoft Security Essentials
Threat.Undefined
1.205.415.0

MicroWorld eScan
Win32.Sality.3
16.0.0.726

NANO AntiVirus
Virus.Win32.Sality.yusp
0.30.24.3283

Norman
Win32.Sality.3
04.08.2015 10:30:46

nProtect
Virus/W32.Sality.D
15.08.28.01

Panda Antivirus
W32/Sality.AA
15.08.30.12

Quick Heal
W32.Sality.U
8.15.14.00

Rising Antivirus
PE:Virus.Sality!1.A08A[F1]
23.00.65.15828

Sophos
Virus 'Mal/Sality-D'
5.17

Total Defense
Win32/Sality.AA
37.1.62.1

Trend Micro House Call
PE_SALITY.RL
7.2.242

Trend Micro
PE_SALITY.RL
10.465.30

Vba32 AntiVirus
Virus.Win32.Sality.bakb
3.12.26.4

VIPRE Antivirus
Threat.4721115
42326

ViRobot
Win32.Sality.Gen.A[h]
2014.3.20.0

File size:
367.7 KB (376,560 bytes)

Product version:
25.2.1

Copyright:
©Pale Moon, Firefox and Mozilla Developers, available under the MPL 2.0.

Trademarks:
The Pale Moon logo and project names are the property of Moonchild Productions.

Original file name:
palemoon.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
Language Neutral

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
1/22/2015 4:38:46 AM

OS version:
6.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
11.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
6144:FE6O7k/vK3TA757e5260F03gNlskqccZOpk/vK3TA757e52OGFSBbIq1tf:FE6pKDAk2BFpNxq/KDAk2bF4E

Entry address:
0x4DF00

Entry point:
60, 41, 88, D7, 81, FE, 7C, 31, 00, 00, 71, 08, 88, DC, 0F, B3, F2, 0F, C1, D1, FF, CB, D3, E2, 69, C2, 91, 07, C1, 2F, 80, EF, 51, 8B, E9, F7, D2, 33, FE, 89, C2, 0F, BA, E1, D7, 0F, C8, FF, CB, BB, 35, 40, 0D, 81, 0F, AF, D9, 0C, 3B, 0F, AF, D8, 42, 0F, BA, E1, FF, F6, C1, 84, 86, F2, F2, E8, 2B, 00, 00, 00, 0F, A3, C8, 85, CE, 87, F7, 10, C9, 0F, BF, C2, 0F, BB, F1, 30, DB, 0F, C9, F2, 6B, D2, 00, 0F, BA, F1, E4, F7, DF, 89, D1, 81, EA, BF, 1B, FF, FF, 0F, BF, EF, 89, C3, 48, 6B, FF, 00, B3, 00, 8A, F7...
 
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Entropy:
7.7586  (probably packed)

Code size:
12 KB (12,288 bytes)

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