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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:
aa176616679352613f9e36fe0c878dd7

SHA-1:
a89aeb3d766ff1bc0355aa1d92b2b0a134bc19a4

SHA-256:
0a7b78693cf71cf048c5d31f0c4789257a76e56a1979ac6b2edce846a3e011c8

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:
11/24/2024 7:11:36 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.installCore (M)
17.3.5.14

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

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\apps\2.0\b4r7krcb.9xp\r1gebtok.wzq\clic..tion_0000000000000000_0001.0000_770ae34b8045bfcd\clickoncesetup.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
UpdateStar GmbH

Authority:
GlobalSign nv-sa

Valid from:
2/4/2015 12:10:42 AM

Valid to:
2/5/2016 12:10:42 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:
8/20/2015 1:01:17 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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Developed / compiled with:
Microsoft Visual C# / Basic .NET

Code size:
967.5 KB (990,720 bytes)

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