[0101editor.vm] Extremely Slow Download Speed for the 010Editor Installer

[Ana06]

Details

What's the problem?

The download speed for 010 Editor installers from https://download.sweetscape.com is (at least some times) significantly slow. As reported by @aftwro in https://github.com/mandiant/flare-vm/issues/657, this impacts the installation of FLARE-VM as installing 010Editor (via the 010editor.vm package which uses https://download.sweetscape.com/010EditorWin64Installer15.0.1.exe) dramatically increases installation time.

Steps to Reproduce

Using curl (Direct Download)

• Open a terminal or command prompt.
• Execute the following command:

  curl -L -v --noproxy '*' https://download.sweetscape.com/010EditorWin64Installer15.0.1.exe --output /dev/null
  

• Observe the download speed in the curl output, which will be significantly slower than desired.

Using Chocolatey

• Install FLARE-VM selecting 010editor.vm as only installed package.

Possible solutions:

1. Ask 010Editor if they are able to fix the download speed issue on download.sweetscape.com (preferred).
2. Use an alternative download URL if someone is able to provide one.
3. If we are not able to fix the download issue we will have to remove 010Editor from FLARE-VM default configuration. 010 Editor is a very valuable tool for reverse engineering and malware analysis, so this is not desirable.

I'll try to reach out to 010Editor to see if they are able to help.

[Ana06]

The SweetScape team is investigating the issue.

[Ana06]

The issue still persists 😞

[emtuls]

I have not run into this issue yet, but I can continue to keep an eye on it. Let me know if we should keep the issue open or not @Ana06 ?

[Ana06]

I haven't encountered the issue lately, so I think it is fixed. If this is the case, we should remove the Takes long to install. from the description of 010editor.vm