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similarsites.exe

SimilarWeb Ltd.

The application similarsites.exe by SimilarWeb has been detected as a potentially unwanted program 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 NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) installer.
Publisher:
SimilarSites  (signed by SimilarWeb Ltd.)

Product:
SimilarSites

Version:
0.0.0.1

MD5:
5476ceb8ee19f00d6f9fad0a3bef1657

SHA-1:
3eb838aafb75230cdf36e73d984d74cc343e3045

SHA-256:
4f175d1728f5a76f79bdbe9bd75a107eb57267c107280ad7ea054c7582968d2a

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

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:
4/25/2024 2:33:53 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.SimilarGroup.SimilarW.Installer (M)
16.3.13.1

File size:
212.1 KB (217,184 bytes)

Product version:
0.0.0.1

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)

Language:
Language Neutral

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\roaming\similarsites\similarsites.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
SimilarWeb Ltd.

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
3/20/2012 5:30:00 AM

Valid to:
3/21/2013 5:29:59 AM

Subject:
CN=SimilarWeb Ltd., OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O=SimilarWeb Ltd., L=Tel Aviv, S=Israel, C=IL

Issuer:
CN=VeriSign Class 3 Code Signing 2010 CA, OU=Terms of use at https://www.verisign.com/rpa (c)10, OU=VeriSign Trust Network, O="VeriSign, Inc.", C=US

Serial number:
437307139AB8798C2CF18A6B3A5CA054

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
12/6/2009 4:20:41 AM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
3072:zLk395hYXJ545A8cznKZuolkqnQ60jT4yIfauQRtssMYu1Ark8Xih6VC683JoAEl:zQqPjjKZDlLQ6ZyKVJ31ArkyO6C6CTs

Entry address:
0x30CB

Entry point:
81, EC, 80, 01, 00, 00, 53, 55, 56, 33, DB, 57, 89, 5C, 24, 18, C7, 44, 24, 10, 60, 91, 40, 00, 33, F6, C6, 44, 24, 14, 20, FF, 15, 30, 70, 40, 00, 68, 01, 80, 00, 00, FF, 15, B0, 70, 40, 00, 53, FF, 15, 7C, 72, 40, 00, 6A, 08, A3, 38, 3F, 42, 00, E8, F1, 2B, 00, 00, A3, 84, 3E, 42, 00, 53, 8D, 44, 24, 34, 68, 60, 01, 00, 00, 50, 53, 68, 30, F4, 41, 00, FF, 15, 58, 71, 40, 00, 68, 54, 91, 40, 00, 68, 80, 36, 42, 00, E8, A4, 28, 00, 00, FF, 15, AC, 70, 40, 00, BF, 00, 90, 42, 00, 50, 57, E8, 92, 28, 00, 00...
 
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Entropy:
7.8199

Packer / compiler:
Nullsoft install system v2.x

Code size:
22.5 KB (23,040 bytes)

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