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acesetup.exe

Amazing Software Products

The application acesetup.exe by Amazing Software Products has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. This is a setup and installation application and has been known to bundle potentially unwanted software. The setup program uses the InstallCore engine which may bundle additional software offers including toolbars and browser extensions.
Publisher:
Amazing Software Products  (signed and verified)

MD5:
ecd95019100601fa708303784eef0d4e

SHA-1:
08ed2082d90d90a1319fc7ddb571849c92c514f2

SHA-256:
9af0ef223d69e216335c0c5c78c6a7c9953cc38359bcb6829b25759a29b094c2

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Explanation:
Uses the InstallCore download manager to install additional potentially unwanted software which may include extensions such as DealPly and various toolbars.

Analysis date:
1/13/2025 2:40:08 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.InstallCore.AmazingS.Installer (M)
16.5.7.19

File size:
1.2 MB (1,226,960 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Amazing Software Products

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
11/4/2004 8:00:00 PM

Valid to:
11/5/2005 7:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Amazing Software Products, OU=Amazing Software Products, OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O=Amazing Software Products, L=Wilmington, S=Delaware, C=US

Issuer:
CN=VeriSign Class 3 Code Signing 2004 CA, OU=Terms of use at https://www.verisign.com/rpa (c)04, OU=VeriSign Trust Network, O="VeriSign, Inc.", C=US

Serial number:
516687062D755A0A7A1294F79BE062DA

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
12/27/2003 1:57:00 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:/txv46rllN/xqTfJDch+AXFVtTMhGBvXfpTxUxhDVCHJzAACH499+6w:/txv46DzqThDch/LJMABvXJSfDVCeANm

Entry address:
0x3FDA

Entry point:
83, EC, 10, 53, 55, 56, 57, C7, 44, 24, 14, 70, 92, 40, 00, 33, ED, C6, 44, 24, 13, 20, FF, 15, 2C, 70, 40, 00, 55, FF, 15, 88, 72, 40, 00, BE, 00, 54, 43, 00, BF, 00, 04, 00, 00, 56, 57, A3, 88, ED, 42, 00, FF, 15, C4, 70, 40, 00, E8, 8D, FF, FF, FF, 8B, 1D, 90, 70, 40, 00, 85, C0, 75, 21, 68, FB, 03, 00, 00, 56, FF, 15, 60, 71, 40, 00, 68, 68, 92, 40, 00, 56, FF, D3, E8, 6A, FF, FF, FF, 85, C0, 0F, 84, 59, 01, 00, 00, BE, 00, E5, 42, 00, 56, FF, 15, 68, 70, 40, 00, 68, 5C, 92, 40, 00, 56, E8, 80, 28, 00...
 
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Entropy:
7.9843  (probably packed)

Code size:
23 KB (23,552 bytes)

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