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QUALITY SCORE SL

The application vlc.exe by QUALITY SCORE SL has been detected as adware by 6 anti-malware scanners. The file has been seen being downloaded from downloads205.com and multiple other hosts.
Publisher:
QUALITY SCORE SL  (signed and verified)

Product:
PreDownload

Version:
1.0.0.0

MD5:
1dddb556cb3f7770b0e5be818041e230

SHA-1:
c257aeb7bc09ec51f0827e9cdccf93a06cb297c6

SHA-256:
3205829f7e18de489622225ca4690856182a987fad56ff34d806fed459e025bf

Scanner detections:
6 / 68

Status:
Adware

Analysis date:
4/26/2024 10:59:26 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Comodo Security
ApplicUnwnt
18015

ESET NOD32
MSIL/Adware.Colooader (variant)
8.9612

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.PreDownload.A
v2014.03.30.12

Qihoo 360 Security
Win32/Trojan.Adware.d7a
1.0.0.1015

Reason Heuristics
PUP.QUALITYSCORESL.D
14.3.30.0

Trend Micro House Call
TROJ_GEN.F47V0328
7.2.89

File size:
246.3 KB (252,216 bytes)

Product version:
1.0.0.0

Copyright:
Copyright © 2014

Original file name:
Loader.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win64 EXE)

Language:
Language Neutral

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
QUALITY SCORE SL

Authority:
COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:
1/1/2014 4:00:00 PM

Valid to:
1/2/2015 3:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=QUALITY SCORE SL, O=QUALITY SCORE SL, STREET=CALLE SERRANO 213, L=MADRID, S=MADRID, PostalCode=28016, C=ES

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

Serial number:
4AB0F061E1C305B4B31A8ACE3AEA2E01

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
3/27/2014 1:09:52 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win64

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
8.0

.NET CLR dependent:
Yes

CTPH (ssdeep):
3072:0pRVoiOJmDfK69dToqmDxdbMURj0cUdj58uYQcJoMfhQYI9ccH:+V+GfK69LmDXT5U58uY7bfiYfW

Entry address:
0x34BDA

Entry point:
4D, 5A, 90, 00, 03, 00, 00, 00, 04, 00, 00, 00, FF, FF, 00, 00, B8, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 40, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 80, 00, 00, 00, 0E, 1F, BA, 0E, 00, B4, 09, CD, 21, B8, 01, 4C, CD, 21, 54, 68, 69, 73, 20, 70, 72, 6F, 67, 72, 61, 6D, 20, 63, 61, 6E, 6E, 6F, 74, 20, 62, 65, 20, 72, 75, 6E, 20, 69, 6E, 20, 44, 4F, 53, 20, 6D, 6F, 64, 65, 2E, 0D, 0D, 0A, 24, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00...
 
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Entropy:
6.1248

Code size:
203.5 KB (208,384 bytes)

The file vlc.exe has been seen being distributed by the following 6 URLs.

http://downloads205.com/bin/.../avira-2-0-1-4.exe

http://downloads205.com/bin/.../mkv-player.exe

http://downloads205.com/bin/.../movie-maker-1-6.exe

http://downloads205.com/bin/.../microsoft-office-2013.exe

http://downloads205.com/bin/.../microsoft-powerpoint.exe

http://downloads205.com/bin/.../vlc.exe

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