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rufus-2.3.exe

Rufus

Akeo Consulting (http://akeo.ie)

The executable rufus-2.3.exe has been detected as malware by 10 anti-virus scanners. This is a setup program which is used to install the application. 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. The file has been seen being downloaded from rufus.akeo.ie.
Publisher:
Akeo Consulting (http://akeo.ie)

Product:
Rufus

Version:
2.3.709

MD5:
c6d3c1cd6d8714c00ef64b22ff8522cd

SHA-1:
8fea83a4a7324419ae0d431ff8b1d6e65bec6559

SHA-256:
25bfd7f57fd79410810ed5d92462f493880e10e05d5b152ffff68da1c2775bf2

Scanner detections:
10 / 68

Status:
File is infected by a Virus

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

Analysis date:
4/24/2024 1:36:50 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

avast!
Win32:SaliCode
160327-1

AVG
Win32/Sality
2015.0.4355

Dr.Web
Win32.Sector.30
9.0.1.05190

Emsisoft Anti-Malware
Win32.Sality
11.5.0.6191

ESET NOD32
Win32/Sality.NBA virus
7.0.302.0

F-Prot
W32/Sality.gen2
4.6.5.141

Kaspersky
Virus.Win32.Sality
15.0.0.562

McAfee
Virus.W32/Sality.gen.z
18.0.204.0

Microsoft Security Essentials
Threat.Undefined
1.217.2259.0

Norman
Win32.Sality.3
10.04.2016 15:29:17

File size:
888.9 KB (910,248 bytes)

Product version:
2.3.709

Copyright:
© 2011-2015 Pete Batard (GPL v3)

Trademarks:
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html

Original file name:
rufus.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\rufus-2.3.exe

File PE Metadata
OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.25

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:8TnFd/emfTsikPbik1AWlmNzzFJ2KQW18zqHF3wHLGxQYr5EZknUlpZ5oSBwlR4:2FYmf4rTngNzn2KZqG3wru3yFgR4

Entry address:
0x213B70

Entry point:
C7, C1, 52, C5, 3F, 48, 2B, F5, 8D, 35, 47, 2F, 41, 2F, 80, C3, EB, 68, D1, CB, 92, 00, 86, CA, E8, 00, 00, 00, 00, 70, 0B, 86, E4, 21, E8, 0F, B6, CF, 48, 0F, B7, F7, C7, C0, BF, DA, D1, 00, 81, C2, 6F, FC, FF, FF, 0F, BF, D9, 81, C2, EE, 06, 00, 00, 5B, 2C, 95, 71, 05, B8, DD, FB, 9D, 16, 76, 06, 8D, 15, 9F, 59, 43, 69, 81, ED, DE, E1, 0C, 00, 86, C9, 81, C5, 31, 08, 0C, 00, 0F, 6E, C3, C6, C5, 33, 81, FE, 8E, 32, 00, 00, 78, 06, F7, C1, 1D, 05, 33, 19, 69, C9, EE, 6E, 5D, DB, 8D, 16, 8D, 35, 58, 8D, BE...
 
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Entropy:
7.9437  (probably packed)

Code size:
772 KB (790,528 bytes)

The file rufus-2.3.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

https://rufus.akeo.ie/.../rufus-2.3.exe

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