canon ir 2020 user guide provided through pdfretriever.com.exe

Interactive Install

LiveSoftAction SRL

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 canon ir 2020 user guide provided through pdfretriever.com.exe by LiveSoftAction SRL 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 S. R. L.   (signed by LiveSoftAction SRL)

Product:
Interactive Install

Version:
8.28.4.1

MD5:
7554c676f84f7acd419bda4eef73f6e3

SHA-1:
cb20228a715487f275f170bdd0c6597cf529a119

SHA-256:
823b97a621f2b7e78ce6d29c563f92a8c9061c65070d435042a8155f328f1955

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 an installer which may bundle legitimate applications with offers for additional 3rd-party applications that may be unwanted by the user. While the installer contains an 'opt-out' feature this is not set be defult and is usually overlooked.

Analysis date:
11/5/2024 7:29:37 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Sien (M)
17.3.11.11

File size:
718.5 KB (735,744 bytes)

Product version:
8.28.4.1

Copyright:
(c) Live Soft Action S .R .L . All rights reserved.

Original file name:
Setup.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
SIEN SuperInstall

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\canon ir 2020 user guide provided through pdfretriever.com.exe

Digital Signature
Authority:
GlobalSign nv-sa

Valid from:
4/18/2014 8:50:37 AM

Valid to:
5/29/2015 9:34:53 AM

Subject:
CN=LiveSoftAction SRL, OU=LiveSoftAction SRL, O=LiveSoftAction SRL, L=Bucharest, S=ROMANIA, C=RO

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

Serial number:
1121FC42685A77DFEC574BF9851EA55E2ADB

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
7/10/2014 4:26:11 AM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
11.0

Entry address:
0x1AA0C0

Entry point:
60, BE, 00, F0, 50, 00, 8D, BE, 00, 20, EF, FF, 57, EB, 0B, 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, C5, EB, 0B, 01, DB, 75, 07, 8B...
 
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Entropy:
7.8994

Packer / compiler:
UPX v0.89.6 - v1.02 / v1.05 -v1.24

Code size:
624 KB (638,976 bytes)

The file canon ir 2020 user guide provided through pdfretriever.com.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

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