{"id":3751,"date":"2015-01-05T09:31:54","date_gmt":"2015-01-05T09:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/?p=3751"},"modified":"2018-05-29T12:01:08","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T12:01:08","slug":"edward-kosar-39-detection-rate-adware-multiplug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/edward-kosar-39-detection-rate-adware-multiplug\/","title":{"rendered":"Edward Kosar &#8211; 39% Detection Rate &#8211; Adware.MultiPlug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome! Just a quick post on a publisher called <strong>Edward Kosar<\/strong> that I found while running some tests for the upcoming FreeFixer release. The suspicious file is named &#8220;How I Met Your Mother S09E22 HDTV x264-KILLERS[ettv].exe&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Edward-Kosar-UAC.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3753\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Edward-Kosar-UAC.png\" alt=\"Edward Kosar UAC\" width=\"508\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Edward-Kosar-UAC.png 508w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Edward-Kosar-UAC-300x184.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 508px) 100vw, 508px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The certificate is issued by Certum Code Signing CA. According to the cert, Edward Kosar is located in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Edward-Kosar-certificate.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3752\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Edward-Kosar-certificate.png\" alt=\"Edward Kosar certificate\" width=\"469\" height=\"437\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Edward-Kosar-certificate.png 469w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Edward-Kosar-certificate-300x279.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 469px) 100vw, 469px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, why did I put up this blog post? Well, the thing is that the Edward Kosar file is detected by many of the scanners, according to <a title=\"How To Scan a File for Viruses with VirusTotal\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/scan-files-for-viruses-virustotal\/\">VirusTotal<\/a>. F-Prot classifies How I Met Your Mother S09E22 HDTV x264-KILLERS[ettv].exe as <strong>W32\/S-e70371e2!Eldorado<\/strong>, Kaspersky reports <strong>not-a-virus:AdWare.Win32.MultiPlug.oaqy<\/strong>, McAfee detects it as <strong>MultiPlug-FTW<\/strong>, Panda classifies it as <strong>Trj\/Genetic.gen<\/strong> and VBA32 reports <strong>suspected of Heur.Malware-Cryptor.Multiplug.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Edward-Kosar-virustotal.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3754\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Edward-Kosar-virustotal.png\" alt=\"Edward Kosar virustotal\" width=\"740\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Edward-Kosar-virustotal.png 740w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Edward-Kosar-virustotal-300x182.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Did you also run into a file that was digitally signed by Edward Kosar? What kind of download was it and was it detected by the anti-viruses at <a title=\"How To Scan a File for Viruses with VirusTotal\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/scan-files-for-viruses-virustotal\/\">VirusTotal<\/a>? Please share in posting comments below.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome! Just a quick post on a publisher called Edward Kosar that I found while running some tests for the upcoming FreeFixer release. The suspicious file is named &#8220;How I Met Your Mother S09E22 HDTV x264-KILLERS[ettv].exe&#8221;. The certificate is issued by Certum Code Signing CA. According to the cert, Edward Kosar is located in Ukraine. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/edward-kosar-39-detection-rate-adware-multiplug\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Edward Kosar &#8211; 39% Detection Rate &#8211; Adware.MultiPlug<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[97],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3751"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3755,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3751\/revisions\/3755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}