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Forden Limited

The application pdfreader.exe by Forden 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. The program is a setup application that uses the NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) installer. The file has been seen being downloaded from pchealthdoc.s3.amazonaws.com.
Publisher:
Forden Limited  (signed and verified)

MD5:
4b678fb5dfb0816169aed0158a8ae1b5

SHA-1:
bd5316a6ff8c12c7565333848a64546e9c0f0e68

SHA-256:
8af3408ff910ea334a2cdfde2e7a44a2d0c624372c175bf5f63a6acc574b7a26

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Analysis date:
4/25/2024 8:33:16 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.PCSpeedBoost.Optional.Installer.Meta (L)
15.7.24.22

File size:
1.9 MB (2,043,328 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Forden Limited

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
10/12/2011 8:00:00 PM

Valid to:
10/11/2013 7:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Forden Limited, OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O=Forden Limited, L=Hong Kong, S=Hong Kong, C=HK

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:
30A63367DC811CCA7538AE8B9943EF70

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
12/5/2009 5:50:46 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
49152:fvg6x5KquxkNaWwxzgSqxHpfB3tIJeKk0hx5AlMxmm:Hxx0VkN9wA1tCkaH

Entry address:
0x323C

Entry point:
81, EC, 80, 01, 00, 00, 53, 55, 56, 33, DB, 57, 89, 5C, 24, 18, C7, 44, 24, 10, 30, 91, 40, 00, 33, F6, C6, 44, 24, 14, 20, FF, 15, 30, 70, 40, 00, 68, 01, 80, 00, 00, FF, 15, B4, 70, 40, 00, 53, FF, 15, 7C, 72, 40, 00, 6A, 08, A3, 58, 3F, 42, 00, E8, 09, 2C, 00, 00, A3, A4, 3E, 42, 00, 53, 8D, 44, 24, 34, 68, 60, 01, 00, 00, 50, 53, 68, 58, F4, 41, 00, FF, 15, 58, 71, 40, 00, 68, B8, 91, 40, 00, 68, A0, 36, 42, 00, E8, BC, 28, 00, 00, FF, 15, B0, 70, 40, 00, BF, 00, 90, 42, 00, 50, 57, E8, AA, 28, 00, 00...
 
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Entropy:
7.8694

Packer / compiler:
Nullsoft install system v2.x

Code size:
23 KB (23,552 bytes)

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

http://pchealthdoc.s3.amazonaws.com/PDFReader.exe

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