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rufus-2.5.exe

Rufus

Akeo Consulting (http://akeo.ie)

The executable rufus-2.5.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:
2.5.799

MD5:
6663abe39cd8ddd07ad2cb9652273e24

SHA-1:
3505fa878ff0deeb381acf7971237eb98a22238a

SHA-256:
3078404a5b2bcce80169bc2701d0d3bdddc0f9947238a9f84e8e36e8c071809a

Scanner detections:
10 / 68

Status:
File is infected by a Virus

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

Analysis date:
4/25/2024 1:52:23 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

avast!
Win32:SaliCode
160518-2

AVG
Win32/Sality
2015.0.4604

Emsisoft Anti-Malware
Win32.Sality
11.5.0.6191

ESET NOD32
Win32/Sality.NBA virus
8.0.319.0

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
1.223.2886.0

Norman
Win32.Sality.3
28.05.2016 15:32:18

VIPRE Antivirus
Threat.4721115
50308

File size:
922.4 KB (944,552 bytes)

Product version:
2.5.799

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)

Language:
Language Neutral

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\rufus-2.5.exe

File PE Metadata
OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.25

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:FRsX4xt5STYdCgzYEnGAzgivSfCFqQofrkYC26amjNKgTwlIs3a:FRW4xt507GYGkZnrkYC26ZMgEl0

Entry address:
0x22E150

Entry point:
8D, 05, FE, BF, 64, AF, FF, CB, 69, C5, 28, 30, C9, 15, FF, CF, F7, C0, BD, 33, 01, 72, C7, C1, 25, E5, 90, E1, 8D, 0D, 34, A9, B7, 21, 0F, B6, F3, C7, C5, BA, 8A, 09, 02, B5, 77, 1C, E9, 85, F2, 75, 03, 04, A8, F3, BB, 65, AC, F6, FF, F6, C1, A0, 81, F3, 34, 0B, 00, 00, EB, 06, F7, C2, 1B, E1, 1B, 4E, 81, C3, 7A, 6D, 09, 00, 2B, F7, 8D, 1D, 19, C8, 98, 53, 85, F1, C7, C1, 04, D0, 90, 2F, 0D, 45, 3F, A3, B9, 3A, C3, BE, B2, CC, 24, DB, 57, 51, 81, FE, CD, 12, 00, 00, 76, 03, F2, 23, CB, E8, 5D, 00, 00, 00...
 
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Entropy:
7.9476  (probably packed)

Code size:
796 KB (815,104 bytes)

The file rufus-2.5.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

https://rufus.akeo.ie/.../rufus-2.5.exe

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