recuva.exe

OCSClient

CHIP Digital GmbH

The application recuva.exe, “CHIP Secured Installer” by CHIP Digital GmbH has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 13 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the Chip Digital OCSClient installer. The file has been seen being downloaded from secure.download-sponsor.de.
Publisher:
CHIP Digital GmbH  (signed and verified)

Product:
OCSClient

Description:
CHIP Secured Installer

Version:
7.00

MD5:
003eaa4605838d063122d137b26dfbf2

SHA-1:
a4a5d0e5a2774b6ccf17072e28441b28ba56d85c

SHA-256:
4e0394f8c1b032a6528c10bd7a76300131e1f57944f5c20139baf39aa47c5b7b

Scanner detections:
13 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Description:
This is an installer which may bundle legitimate applications with offers for additional 3rd-party applications that may be unwanted by the user. While the installer contains an 'opt-out' feature this is not set be defult and is usually overlooked.

Analysis date:
4/19/2024 3:37:45 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Trojan.Generic.11671772
857

Agnitum Outpost
Riskware.Agent
7.1.1

Avira AntiVirus
APPL/Downloader.Gen
7.11.175.218

Dr.Web
Adware.Downware.3982
9.0.1.05190

ESET NOD32
Win32/DownloadSponsor.A potentially unwanted application
7.0.302.0

F-Prot
W32/A-4024500f
v6.4.7.1.166

F-Secure
Trojan.Generic.11671772
11.2014-01-10_4

K7 AntiVirus
Unwanted-Program
13.183.13535

McAfee
Artemis!AC5B9B93E630
5600.6991

MicroWorld eScan
Trojan.Generic.11671772
15.0.0.822

Norman
DownloadSponsor.M
11.20141001

Panda Antivirus
Trj/Genetic.gen
14.10.01.12

Rising Antivirus
PE:Malware.XPACK-HIE/Heur!1.9C48
23.00.65.14929

File size:
938.8 KB (961,360 bytes)

Product version:
7.00

Copyright:
Copyright © 2014 Chip Digital GmbH

Original file name:
ocsclient.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
Chip Digital OCSClient

Language:
German (Germany)

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

Digital Signature
Authority:
Thawte, Inc.

Valid from:
2/24/2014 5:00:00 PM

Valid to:
2/25/2015 4:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=CHIP Digital GmbH, O=CHIP Digital GmbH, L=Muenchen, S=Bayern, C=DE

Issuer:
CN=Thawte Code Signing CA - G2, O="Thawte, Inc.", C=US

Serial number:
0D160B8252A4F0A16FE1255FA0A22E2B

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
7/8/2014 7:40:40 AM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:37lw1DxvNXeGQpnmSsR87RAie/kRRU7AAysgfBnnl2a:37m1DjXeB7RAiej7AAysgpnnca

Entry address:
0x1684

Entry point:
68, 74, F6, 40, 00, E8, EE, FF, FF, FF, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 30, 00, 00, 00, 40, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, BE, 94, 86, 5E, 78, 67, 9E, 43, 9D, C2, E8, 8B, A9, F8, 76, C0, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 01, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 4F, 43, 53, 43, 6C, 69, 65, 6E, 74, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, FF, CC, 31, 00, 03, 16, 1A, 2D, BC, FF, 5E, B7, 44, B2, 06, 38, F4, C1, 21, 31, 3B, C7, 14, 1B, 51, 28, 94, 81, 40, 89, 85, 2C, 1A, 60, AA, 65, 86, 3A, 4F, AD, 33, 99, 66, CF, 11, B7, 0C, 00...
 
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Entropy:
6.2424

Developed / compiled with:
Microsoft Visual Basic v5.0

Code size:
100 KB (102,400 bytes)

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