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PDFCreator-1_3_0_setup.exe

PDFCreator

Philip Chinery

The application PDFCreator-1_3_0_setup.exe, “PDFCreator is the easy way of creating PDFs.” by Philip Chinery has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 2 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 iweb.dl.sourceforge.net and multiple other hosts.
Publisher:
pdfforge GbR  (signed by Philip Chinery)

Product:
PDFCreator

Description:
PDFCreator is the easy way of creating PDFs.

Version:
1.3.0

MD5:
8d7dceaf045a57b569f63e48320b974d

SHA-1:
ad66a7a5c3b2bbd6b495251c6ffa8f77488ffc26

SHA-256:
11b1d3d35cfa2f9c6447568ca321efd8364c89a6852787b876abf4b6cf479527

Scanner detections:
2 / 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:
4/25/2024 11:20:55 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

ESET NOD32
Win32/OpenCandy
8.9883

Reason Heuristics
PUP.OpenCandy.Installer (L)
16.11.30.7

File size:
17 MB (17,816,792 bytes)

Product version:
1.3.0

Copyright:
© pdfforge.org

Original file name:
PDFCreator-1_3_0_setup.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
Inno Setup

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\pdfcreator-1_3_0_setup.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Philip Chinery

Authority:
Root CA

Valid from:
11/10/2010 2:25:52 PM

Valid to:
11/9/2012 2:25:52 PM

Subject:
E=philip@pdfforge.org, CN=Philip Chinery

Issuer:
E=support@cacert.org, CN=CA Cert Signing Authority, OU=http://www.cacert.org, O=Root CA

Serial number:
0970B9

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):
393216:0TOy2o6tNSbrfxMfXN9R+g5pbvb8t8g+6xoBkZDzgKXouU+gRbu3R7yzz9uu:0Tx6MoNT35pbvot8Z2a+g98R7yzz9/

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 PDFCreator-1_3_0_setup.exe has been seen being distributed by the following 4 URLs.

http://iweb.dl.sourceforge.net/project/pdfcreator/PDFCreator/.../PDFCreator-1_3_0_setup.exe

http://cdnetworks-kr-1.dl.sourceforge.net/project/pdfcreator/PDFCreator/.../PDFCreator-1_3_0_setup.exe

http://ignum.dl.sourceforge.net/project/pdfcreator/PDFCreator/.../PDFCreator-1_3_0_setup.exe

http://freefr.dl.sourceforge.net/project/pdfcreator/PDFCreator/.../PDFCreator-1_3_0_setup.exe

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