Should I block it?
No, this file is 100% safe to run.
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Relationships
Parent process
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 PE file structure
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Import table
kernel32.dll
SetEndOfFile
Spotify.exe
Spotify by Spotify Ltd (Signed)
| Version: | 0.8.4.93 |
| MD5: | 23cc3aeca2ff14ed0047e84a777716f2 |
| SHA1: | a7d37e785a58dc283b07c1efd4e74f4b563d2013 |
| SHA256: | 95c3f5e230996d7913612cc1b82bc2a147331a4934df2960a1ccbf78d65aa117 |
What is Spotify.exe?
Spotify is a Swedish music streaming service offering digitally restricted streaming of selected music from a range of major and independent record labels. Spotify allows registered users to integrate their account with existing Facebook and Twitter accounts. Once a user integrates their Spotify account with other social media profiles, they are able to access their friends' favorite music and playlists. Users can access applications integrated in the Spotify desktop client, written in HTML5.
About Spotify.exe (from Spotify Ltd)
“Think of Spotify as your new music collection. Your library. Only this time your collection is vast: millions of tracks and counting. Spotify comes in all shapes and sizes, available for your PC, Mac,”
Details
| File name: | spotify.exe |
| Publisher: | Spotify Ltd |
| Product name: | Spotify |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\spotify\spotify.exe |
| File version: | 0.8.4.93 |
| Size: | 7.26 MB (7,609,560 bytes) |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | Spotify Ltd |
| Authority (CA): | The USERTRUST Network |
| Expiration date: | Saturday, September 22, 2012 |
| Digital DNA |
| File packed: | Yes |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Programs
The following programs will install this file
Spotify is a Swedish music streaming service offering digitally restricted streaming of selected music from a range of major and independent record labels, including Sony, EMI, Warner Music Group and Universal. Music can be browsed by artist, album, record label, genre or playlist as well as by direct searches. On desktop clients, a link allows the listener to purchase selected material via partner retailers.
Behaviors
Windows firewall allowed programs
Exceptions allow programs to access to the Internet through an outbound connections
- Firewall exception for 'C:\Documents and Settings\user\Application Data\Spotify\spotify.exe'
- Firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files\Spotify\spotify.exe'
Startup files (user) run
Runs under the registry key 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run'
- 'Spotify' → "C:\users\user\appdata\Roaming\Spotify\Spotify.exe" /uri spotifC:autostart
Network connections
Access through an approved Windows firewall exception
[UDP] listens on port 21328
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00004111% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00002710% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00001401% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 43,321 ms/min | |
| CPU cycles: | 25,882,951/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 160.8 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 86.84 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 86.84 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 160.8 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 722.04 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 758.2 MB | |
| Working set: | 86.84 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 111.31 MB | |
| Page faults: | 147,529/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 1.1 MB/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 86/sec | |
| I/O write transfer: | 92.99 KB/sec | |
| I/O write operations: | 20/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 4.15 KB/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 358/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 45 | |
| Handles: | 705 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 365 | |
| GUI GDI peak: | 377 | |
| GUI USER count: | 51 | |
| GUI USER peak: | 61 | |
Process properties
Threads
Averages
| spotify.exe (main module) |
| Total CPU: | 0.05589188% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00235172% | |
| User CPU: | 0.05354016% | |
| CPU cycles: | 4,054,248/sec | |
| Context switches: | 19/sec | |
| Memory: | 13.02 MB | |
| libcef.dll (Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF) Dynamic Link Library) |
| Total CPU: | 0.00008164% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00003160% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00005004% | |
| CPU cycles: | 21,836/sec | |
| Memory: | 19.47 MB | |
| ntdll.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00002985% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00002107% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00000878% | |
| CPU cycles: | 26,670/sec | |
| Memory: | 1.23 MB | |
Common loaded modules
These are modules that are typiclaly loaded within the context of this process.
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows 7 Ultimate |
56.25% |
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| Microsoft Windows XP |
37.50% |
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| Windows 7 Professional |
6.25% |
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Distribution by country
United States installs about 92.31% of Spotify.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Dell |
50.00% |
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| Toshiba |
25.00% |
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| Lenovo |
25.00% |
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