secure.8-pn-installer.com

Adknowledge  (via a Proxy Registrant)

Domain Information

This is a distribution host for a number of Adknowledge installers including (Fusion Installer, Wrap Installer, Premium Instal, Optimum Installer and many others). The installers are bundled download managers that include adware/ad-supported offers. The domain secure.8-pn-installer.com is registered by proxy through TUCOWS DOMAINS INC. and was originally registered in January of 2014. This domain has been known to host and distribute potentially unwanted software. The hosted servers are located in Belfast, Northern Ireland within United Kingdom which resides on the RIPE Network Coordination Centre network. The domain is associated with the publisher Adknowledge.
Registrar:
TUCOWS DOMAINS INC.

Server location:
Northern Ireland, United Kingdom (GB)

Create date:
Monday, January 20, 2014

Expires date:
Friday, January 20, 2017

Updated date:
Tuesday, January 19, 2016

Root domain:

Scanner detections:
Detections  (100% detected)

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Details
Detections

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Adknowledge.Fileprotected.Installer (M), PUP.Adknowledge.Fileprot.Installer (M), PUP.Adknowledge.Fileange.Bundler (M), PUP.Adknowledge.SafeDown.Bundler (M), PUP.Adknowledge.ShefaMed.Installer (M), PUP.Adknowledge.TigerDow.Bundler (M), PUP.Adknowledge.OverallM.Installer (M), PUP.Adknowledge.Fileprot.Bundler (M), PUP.Adknowledge.FileMona.Bundler (M), PUP.Adknowledge.Fileadve.Installer (M), PUP.Adknowledge.Windfunc.Bundler (M), PUP.Adknowledge (M)
100.00%

The domain secure.8-pn-installer.com has been seen to resolve to the following 3 IP addresses.

unallocated.barefruit.co.uk
May 5, 2015

ec2-54-243-186-169.compute-1.amazonaws.com
October 20, 2014

ec2-54-243-183-125.compute-1.amazonaws.com
October 20, 2014

File downloads found at URLs served by secure.8-pn-installer.com.

1 / 68      (Adware)
http://secure.8-pn-installer.com/o/.../mpcsetup.exe  (c8aa2717762580ab82713e3d2b6a44a9)

1 / 68      (Adware)
http://secure.8-pn-installer.com/o/.../mpcsetup.exe  (560ee0853f480983fe30d323ef2ec4ca)

1 / 68      (Adware)

1 / 68      (Adware)

1 / 68      (Adware)
http://secure.8-pn-installer.com/o/.../mpcsetup.exe  (e80112753c43951a7c808d6cc0c4187b)

1 / 68      (Adware)
http://secure.8-pn-installer.com/o/.../Setup.exe  (c28a839113aed509fbc69894c287afeb)

The following 235 files have been seen to comunicate with secure.8-pn-installer.com in live environments.

 
Latest 20 of 235 files

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