speeditupfree.exe

SpeedItup Free

MicroSmarts LLC

The application speeditupfree.exe by MicroSmarts has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. It is set to automatically start when a user logs into Windows via the current user run registry key under the display name ‘SpeedItupFree’. The file has been seen being downloaded from www.speeditupfree.com.
Publisher:
MicroSmarts LLC.  (signed by MicroSmarts LLC)

Product:
SpeedItup Free

Version:
9, 0, 1, 6

MD5:
6bf6f5460223aab436ce5e31d5743f2d

SHA-1:
a30d3de87a57ae4c3fc28b8f63fa54d319dec50e

SHA-256:
b5dec9f3a245d0c71a825271c97e425a88b4cd1a23f7a5f94ca8c983366e2bfc

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:
5/5/2024 8:36:05 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP (M)
16.12.15.4

File size:
7.6 MB (7,947,912 bytes)

Product version:
9, 0, 1, 6

Copyright:
Copyright (c) 2011 MicroSmarts LLC. All rights reserved

Original file name:
speeditupfree.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\Program Files\speeditup free\speeditupfree.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:

Authority:
Symantec Corporation

Valid from:
3/29/2016 5:30:00 AM

Valid to:
3/30/2017 5:29:59 AM

Subject:
CN=MicroSmarts LLC, O=MicroSmarts LLC, L=Matteson, S=Illinois, C=US

Issuer:
CN=Symantec Class 3 SHA256 Code Signing CA, OU=Symantec Trust Network, O=Symantec Corporation, C=US

Serial number:
43E8A6450DDBE473F5E1817476AEBB5F

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
11/1/2013 12:50:58 AM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

Entry address:
0x445BBF

Entry point:
E8, A6, F8, 00, 00, E9, 78, FE, FF, FF, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, 55, 8B, EC, 57, 56, 8B, 75, 0C, 8B, 4D, 10, 8B, 7D, 08, 8B, C1, 8B, D1, 03, C6, 3B, FE, 76, 08, 3B, F8, 0F, 82, A4, 01, 00, 00, 81, F9, 00, 01, 00, 00, 72, 1F, 83, 3D, 3C, 0F, B5, 00, 00, 74, 16, 57, 56, 83, E7, 0F, 83, E6, 0F, 3B, FE, 5E, 5F, 75, 08, 5E, 5F, 5D, E9, 23, B5, 00, 00, F7, C7, 03, 00, 00, 00, 75, 15, C1, E9, 02, 83, E2, 03, 83, F9, 08, 72, 2A, F3, A5, FF, 24, 95, 44, 5D, 84, 00, 90, 8B, C7, BA, 03, 00, 00, 00, 83, E9, 04, 72...
 
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Entropy:
6.8560

Code size:
4.8 MB (5,033,472 bytes)

Startup File (User Run)
Registry location:
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

Name:
SpeedItupFree

Command:
"C:\Program Files\speeditup free\speeditupfree.exe"


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

http://www.speeditupfree.com/.../speeditupfree.exe

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