candy crush soda.exe

Contumar Empresarial s.l.

This belongs to a Solimba product that may be bundled with additional PUPs or may be part of an ad-supported software program. The application candy crush soda.exe by Contumar Empresarial s.l 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 Solimba DownloadMR installer. It uses the Solimba download manager to push adware offers during the download and setup process. Bundled adware includes search and shopping web browser toolbars.
Publisher:
Contumar Empresarial s.l.  (signed and verified)

MD5:
d37c78e737ee11b2e6fd583acd8d0e46

SHA-1:
34062981fe236a5d76de8a99cc147e3eeb4be2c0

SHA-256:
e357ea19e4feea8162897bf354ddb7fd9eb6a5652d1f79c90e66c373d2306d08

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Adware

Explanation:
Uses the Solimba installer to bundle adware offers.

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:
1/12/2025 8:53:36 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Solimba (M)
16.7.23.11

File size:
644.6 KB (660,064 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
Solimba DownloadMR

Language:
Language Neutral

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\candy crush soda.exe

Digital Signature
Authority:
GlobalSign nv-sa

Valid from:
2/2/2015 5:00:38 PM

Valid to:
9/24/2016 6:00:25 PM

Subject:
CN=Contumar Empresarial s.l., O=Contumar Empresarial s.l., L=Barcelona, S=Barcelona, C=ES

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

Serial number:
112119FE6AFB4FA7129F4F594CD3E07D5B21

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
5/28/2015 5:22:04 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
12.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:HEV/eHpTEQcwJ0m0NGBf9YxW1R7G39mssMet/bVDscyQ5Fa0WXi:0eHPXTYxWf7G39mssJpAY5Fa0WXi

Entry address:
0x10FEC

Entry point:
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Code size:
139 KB (142,336 bytes)

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