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ClickOnceSetup.exe

UpdateStar Downloader

UpdateStar GmbH

The installer utilizes the installCore download manager which may bundle additional offers for various ad-supported toolbars, extensions and utilities. The application ClickOnceSetup.exe by UpdateStar GmbH has been detected as a potentially unwanted program 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 installCore installer.
Publisher:
UpdateStar GmbH  (signed and verified)

Product:
UpdateStar Downloader

Version:
1.0.5.43735

MD5:
e500d76d6cb00cb8b48b1a0a5366088c

SHA-1:
368c52aa28cf915b3256ff9f44195065a14d9c21

SHA-256:
a04b5d7eb63d8b69dce7e30ca17901333591b9779bcd7b6ab5523b175c38bba9

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

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:
12/23/2024 2:46:51 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.installCore (M)
17.3.7.12

File size:
1006.4 KB (1,030,560 bytes)

Product version:
1.0.5.43735

Original file name:
ClickOnceSetup.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
installCore

Language:
Language Neutral

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\apps\2.0\5j7zgryx.lg6\kqdk46qp.hdk\clic..tion_0000000000000000_0001.0000_713d51191246ff7b\clickoncesetup.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
UpdateStar GmbH

Authority:
GlobalSign nv-sa

Valid from:
2/3/2015 4:10:42 AM

Valid to:
2/4/2016 4:10:42 AM

Subject:
CN=UpdateStar GmbH, O=UpdateStar GmbH, L=Berlin, S=Berlin, C=DE

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

Serial number:
112124922D3C2654755777EEC500C21F7151

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
8/19/2015 6:01:17 AM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
11.0

.NET CLR dependent:
Yes

Entry address:
0xF3BFE

Entry point:
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Entropy:
7.8266

Developed / compiled with:
Microsoft Visual C# / Basic .NET

Code size:
967.5 KB (990,720 bytes)

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