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usb-guardian-setup.exe

USB Guardian

Hipgnosis Vision

The application usb-guardian-setup.exe by Hipgnosis Vision 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. The file has been seen being downloaded from www.usb-guardian.com.
Publisher:
USB-Guardian LLC  (signed by Hipgnosis Vision)

Product:
USB Guardian

Version:
4.2.0.0

MD5:
3e4b07e12833aec888a97577927f320e

SHA-1:
5f1744e9293aa12b3475676eb975f199b4659efa

SHA-256:
18b48434908ac86b7f82adf2d2551c22b39ff8cc1ddaf3ed3329a230a25665c3

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:
4/24/2024 1:07:48 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.HipgnosisVision.Installer (M)
16.2.27.12

File size:
871.1 KB (892,040 bytes)

Copyright:
� USB-Guardian LLC

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\programs\usb-guardian-setup.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Hipgnosis Vision

Authority:
Symantec Corporation

Valid from:
2/15/2015 4:00:00 PM

Valid to:
4/16/2016 4:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Hipgnosis Vision, O=Hipgnosis Vision, L=Craiova, S=Dolj, C=RO

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

Serial number:
74CB8A9F6210A537EAE293153461ED0C

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
2/24/2012 11:19:59 AM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
10.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:3Es8g/MmnEPl9yOoP1EWyJfW/GCV58vgXnpMOjhGnwVCjYwyt00:33gmEPiOa1RyJO/J58gp2wrJ

Entry address:
0x39E3

Entry point:
81, EC, D4, 02, 00, 00, 53, 55, 56, 57, 6A, 20, 33, ED, 5E, 89, 6C, 24, 18, C7, 44, 24, 10, D8, 91, 40, 00, 89, 6C, 24, 14, FF, 15, 30, 80, 40, 00, 68, 01, 80, 00, 00, FF, 15, B8, 80, 40, 00, 55, FF, 15, C0, 82, 40, 00, 6A, 08, A3, B8, 2E, 47, 00, E8, 37, 2A, 00, 00, 55, 68, B4, 02, 00, 00, A3, D0, 2D, 47, 00, 8D, 44, 24, 38, 50, 55, 68, 1C, 93, 40, 00, FF, 15, 84, 81, 40, 00, 68, 04, 93, 40, 00, 68, C0, AD, 46, 00, E8, 19, 27, 00, 00, FF, 15, B4, 80, 40, 00, 50, BF, A0, 30, 4C, 00, 57, E8, 07, 27, 00, 00...
 
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Entropy:
6.9274

Packer / compiler:
Nullsoft install system v2.x

Code size:
28 KB (28,672 bytes)

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

http://www.usb-guardian.com/.../usb-guardian-setup.exe

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