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Farbar

The application fss.exe, “Farbar Service Scanner” has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 26 anti-malware scanners. This is a setup program which is used to install the application. The file has been seen being downloaded from download.bleepingcomputer.com.
Publisher:
Farbar

Description:
Farbar Service Scanner

Version:
18.7.2014.0

MD5:
39efa92842dd68903ff96b24078b1c1b

SHA-1:
581ebc169d2ed21d66cfc154bfca0acd05e9f36f

SHA-256:
7be5004bf3fa8257c621634a0d5080c6170d3355ab4c019b18a0a9b057acb913

Scanner detections:
26 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Analysis date:
7/29/2026 6:42:09 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Trojan.GenericKD.1602076
930

avast!
Win32:Adware-BLN [Adw]
2014.9-140719

Baidu Antivirus
Adware.Win32.Illyx
4.0.3.14719

Bitdefender
Trojan.GenericKD.1602076
1.0.20.1000

Comodo Security
ApplicUnwnt
18107

Dr.Web
BackDoor.Cybergate.1
9.0.1.0200

Emsisoft Anti-Malware
Trojan.GenericKD.1602076
8.14.07.19.07

ESET NOD32
Win32/GameTool.BB
8.9603

Fortinet FortiGate
W32/FrauDrop.ADJIS!tr
7/19/2014

F-Secure
Trojan.GenericKD.1602076
11.2014-19-07_7

G Data
Trojan.GenericKD.1602076
14.7.24

IKARUS anti.virus
Trojan-Dropper.Win32.FrauDrop
t3scan.2.2.29

K7 AntiVirus
Riskware
13.176.11584

Kaspersky
Trojan-Dropper.Win32.FrauDrop
14.0.0.3536

Malwarebytes
Trojan.Inject.RRE
v2014.07.19.07

McAfee
Artemis!37BD65F12E99
5600.7064

MicroWorld eScan
Trojan.GenericKD.1602076
15.0.0.600

NANO AntiVirus
Trojan.Win32.Autoit.dbiolu
0.28.2.60881

Norman
Suspicious_Gen4.FXLPV
11.20140719

nProtect
Trojan.GenericKD.1602076
14.03.27.01

Qihoo 360 Security
Win32/Trojan.Dropper.0c3
1.0.0.1015

Reason Heuristics
Threat.Win.Reputation.IMP
14.7.19.19

Sophos
Mal/Generic-S
4.98

Trend Micro House Call
TROJ_GEN.R00UH07C914
7.2.200

Vba32 AntiVirus
TrojanPSW.Ruftar
3.12.24.3

VIPRE Antivirus
Trojan.Win32.Generic
27776

File size:
405.5 KB (415,232 bytes)

Product version:
3.3.12.0

Copyright:
©1999-2014 Jonathan Bennett & AutoIt Team

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
English (United Kingdom)

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

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
7/18/2014 5:35:25 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
11.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:UOv5jKhsfoPA+yeVKUCUxP4C902bdRtJJPipk09SxAEh:Uq5TfcdHj4fmbq9e9

Entry address:
0xE8F00

Entry point:
60, BE, 00, 50, 49, 00, 8D, BE, 00, C0, F6, FF, 57, EB, 0B, 90, 8A, 06, 46, 88, 07, 47, 01, DB, 75, 07, 8B, 1E, 83, EE, FC, 11, DB, 72, ED, B8, 01, 00, 00, 00, 01, DB, 75, 07, 8B, 1E, 83, EE, FC, 11, DB, 11, C0, 01, DB, 73, 0B, 75, 28, 8B, 1E, 83, EE, FC, 11, DB, 72, 1F, 48, 01, DB, 75, 07, 8B, 1E, 83, EE, FC, 11, DB, 11, C0, EB, D4, 01, DB, 75, 07, 8B, 1E, 83, EE, FC, 11, DB, 11, C9, EB, 52, 31, C9, 83, E8, 03, 72, 11, C1, E0, 08, 8A, 06, 46, 83, F0, FF, 74, 75, D1, F8, 89, C5, EB, 0B, 01, DB, 75, 07, 8B...
 
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Entropy:
7.8966

Packer / compiler:
UPX v0.89.6 - v1.02 / v1.05 -v1.24

Code size:
340 KB (348,160 bytes)

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

http://download.bleepingcomputer.com/dl/7312834ddef3e1dbb4727da07a6438dd/53caf434/windows/security/security-utilities/f/.../FSS.exe

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