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Text Editor

Greatelsoft Trading Ltd

The application setup.exe, “Text Editor Setup ” by Greatelsoft Trading has been detected as adware 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 Inno Setup installer. The file has been seen being downloaded from download.freetexteditor.net.
Publisher:
Conversionads, Inc.   (signed by Greatelsoft Trading Ltd)

Product:
Text Editor

Description:
Text Editor Setup

Version:
1.2.0.1

MD5:
a4b63ac717fbb003188122450ff3ae6b

SHA-1:
ab600ea7691b124ba6ae72c5d49187186ec6abb0

SHA-256:
6675a9f641aab07fb83f5d0f538ce73ffca1b122b0434ccaa8b34ae572080c4a

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Adware

Note:
Our current pool of anti-malware engines have not currently detected this file, however based on our own detection heuristics we feel that this file is unwanted.

Analysis date:
4/24/2024 2:44:29 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP (M)
17.1.7.9

File size:
15.3 MB (16,036,584 bytes)

Product version:
1.2

Copyright:
Copyright © 2012-2013 Conversionads.

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
Inno Setup

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Greatelsoft Trading Ltd

Authority:
COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:
7/2/2013 3:00:00 AM

Valid to:
7/3/2014 2:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=Greatelsoft Trading Ltd, O=Greatelsoft Trading Ltd, STREET="Kyriakou Matsi, 3, Roussos Limassol Tower, 6th floor, flat/office 6A, 3040", L=Limassol, S=Limassol, PostalCode=3040, C=CY

Issuer:
CN=COMODO Code Signing CA 2, O=COMODO CA Limited, L=Salford, S=Greater Manchester, C=GB

Serial number:
00EFAAE98A631C872ADDE1E300FDF065A2

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
6/20/1992 1:22:17 AM

OS version:
1.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.25

Entry address:
0x9C18

Entry point:
55, 8B, EC, 83, C4, C4, 53, 56, 57, 33, C0, 89, 45, F0, 89, 45, DC, E8, AE, 94, FF, FF, E8, B5, A6, FF, FF, E8, 44, A9, FF, FF, E8, 53, C9, FF, FF, E8, 9A, C9, FF, FF, E8, C9, F2, FF, FF, E8, 30, F4, FF, FF, 33, C0, 55, 68, D4, A2, 40, 00, 64, FF, 30, 64, 89, 20, 33, D2, 55, 68, 9D, A2, 40, 00, 64, FF, 32, 64, 89, 22, A1, 14, C0, 40, 00, E8, 96, FE, FF, FF, E8, C9, FA, FF, FF, 8D, 55, F0, 33, C0, E8, 83, CF, FF, FF, 8B, 55, F0, B8, E8, CD, 40, 00, E8, 5A, 95, FF, FF, 6A, 02, 6A, 00, 6A, 01, 8B, 0D, E8, CD...
 
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Entropy:
7.9999

Packer / compiler:
Inno Setup v5.x - Installer Maker

Code size:
37 KB (37,888 bytes)

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

http://download.freetexteditor.net/getdownload.php?d=43

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