saveas.exe

premium

Maxiget Limited

This is part of a bundled installer which provides applications with offers for additional 3rd party software, mostly unwanted adware, and may be installed with minimal consent. The application saveas.exe by Maxiget Limited has been detected as adware by 13 anti-malware scanners. The file has been seen being downloaded from ds211.maxiget.com.
Publisher:
C  (signed by Maxiget Limited)

Product:
premium

Description:
DWD

Version:
3, 3, 9, 0

MD5:
3fba7691bb3b5456ac8580c1c189a772

SHA-1:
901e5cf62fae21f451ae5d061c30df558b2c25d8

SHA-256:
c80ce32ff7ee57567d1d61de59b86c8ff0a876ce2c1589dd410def497b909c0a

Scanner detections:
13 / 68

Status:
Adware

Explanation:
This is a modified installer version of the software and bundles additional offers including adware.

Analysis date:
4/25/2024 7:08:21 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Gen:Variant.Adware.Strictor.58208
934

Agnitum Outpost
PUA.4Shared
7.1.1

AVG
Generic
2015.0.3412

Bitdefender
Gen:Variant.Adware.Strictor.58208
1.0.20.985

Emsisoft Anti-Malware
Gen:Variant.Adware.Strictor.58208
8.14.07.16.06

ESET NOD32
Win32/4Shared.V potentially unwanted application
7.0.302.0

F-Secure
Gen:Variant.Adware.Strictor.58208
11.2014-16-07_4

G Data
Gen:Variant.Adware.Strictor.58208
14.7.24

MicroWorld eScan
Gen:Variant.Adware.Strictor.58208
15.0.0.591

NANO AntiVirus
Riskware.Win32.Strictor.dbqzau
0.28.2.60881

Reason Heuristics
PUP.MaxigetLimited.G
14.8.7.21

Sophos
4Share Downloader
4.98

VIPRE Antivirus
Threat.4150696
31208

File size:
349.4 KB (357,744 bytes)

Product version:
3, 3, 9, 0

Copyright:
2014

Trademarks:
-

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
Language Neutral

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:

Authority:
GoDaddy.com, Inc.

Valid from:
8/15/2013 8:41:32 AM

Valid to:
8/15/2016 8:41:32 AM

Subject:
CN=Maxiget Limited, O=Maxiget Limited, L=Limassol, S=Cyprus, C=CY

Issuer:
SERIALNUMBER=07969287, CN=Go Daddy Secure Certification Authority, OU=http://certificates.godaddy.com/repository, O="GoDaddy.com, Inc.", L=Scottsdale, S=Arizona, C=US

Serial number:
045BA815265145

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
3/21/2014 2:59:37 PM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
3072:fpXjY7kKuXbYyaO6FbgNGedVOB+jeIvny7brvyckglKyaC78JrsxyP1c+GDXJTUM:fxjY7eaCdVGnv6sMC78J/dMjJGm

Entry address:
0x2D3F1

Entry point:
E8, 5D, 89, 00, 00, E9, 78, FE, FF, FF, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, 8B, 4C, 24, 04, F7, C1, 03, 00, 00, 00, 74, 24, 8A, 01, 83, C1, 01, 84, C0, 74, 4E, F7, C1, 03, 00, 00, 00, 75, EF, 05, 00, 00, 00, 00, 8D, A4, 24, 00, 00, 00, 00, 8D, A4, 24, 00, 00, 00, 00, 8B, 01, BA, FF, FE, FE, 7E, 03, D0, 83, F0, FF, 33, C2, 83, C1, 04, A9, 00, 01, 01, 81, 74, E8, 8B, 41, FC, 84, C0, 74, 32, 84, E4, 74, 24, A9, 00, 00, FF, 00, 74, 13, A9, 00, 00, 00, FF, 74, 02, EB, CD, 8D, 41, FF, 8B, 4C, 24, 04, 2B, C1, C3, 8D, 41, FE, 8B...
 
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Entropy:
6.3435

Code size:
255 KB (261,120 bytes)

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

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