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asus k43s driver provided through johnsondrivers.com.exe

Optimized Installer

SIEN Internet Products Ltd

This is the SIEN AppScion Installer which bundles applications with offers for additional 3rd party software, mostly unwanted adware, and may be installed with minimal consent. The application asus k43s driver provided through johnsondrivers.com.exe by SIEN Internet Products has been detected as adware by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. The program is a setup application that uses the SIEN SuperInstall installer. The file has been seen being downloaded from stapi.maxrevinstaller.com.
Publisher:
LIVE__SofT__ACTION  (signed by SIEN Internet Products Ltd)

Product:
Optimized Installer

Version:
9.7.5.1

MD5:
a400f51c68dacf19a54b14af2eacac94

SHA-1:
d70ebc46dd22629bd7a7579f5240accb9c237c53

SHA-256:
d1d4222106203575f4529e41cf29393387a2b3706a1dc5a14d7a413da719bd40

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Adware

Note:
Our current pool of anti-malware engines have not currently detected this file, however based on our own detection heuristics we feel that this file is unwanted.

Description:
This is also known as bundleware, or downloadware, which is an downloader designed to simply deliver ad-supported offers in the setup routine of an otherwise legitimate software.

Analysis date:
11/30/2024 10:33:59 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Sien (M)
17.3.13.14

File size:
743.4 KB (761,224 bytes)

Product version:
9.7.5.1

Copyright:
(c) LIVE__SofT__ACTION. All rights reserved.

Original file name:
OptaSet.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
SIEN SuperInstall

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\asus k43s driver provided through johnsondrivers.com.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
SIEN Internet Products Ltd

Authority:
GlobalSign nv-sa

Valid from:
7/2/2014 3:16:26 PM

Valid to:
7/3/2015 3:16:26 PM

Subject:
CN=SIEN Internet Products Ltd, O=SIEN Internet Products Ltd, L=London, C=GB

Issuer:
CN=GlobalSign CodeSigning CA - SHA256 - G2, O=GlobalSign nv-sa, C=BE

Serial number:
1121B65276582BE3F0926659AF0E1E5D895A

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
2/13/2015 6:31:22 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
11.0

Entry address:
0x1DF670

Entry point:
60, BE, 00, E0, 53, 00, 8D, BE, 00, 30, EC, FF, 57, 83, CD, FF, EB, 10, 90, 90, 90, 90, 90, 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...
 
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Entropy:
7.9020

Packer / compiler:
UPX 2.90LZMA

Code size:
648 KB (663,552 bytes)

The file asus k43s driver provided through johnsondrivers.com.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

http://stapi.maxrevinstaller.com/api/.../setup.exe

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