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emule050a.exe

Meta Installer LLC

This is the Vittalia Filewon Installer which bundles applications with offers for additional 3rd party software, mostly unwanted adware, and may be installed with minimal consent. The application emule050a.exe by Meta Installer has been detected as adware by 7 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the Vittalia DM installer. According to Microsoft Security Essentials, the software bundles and installs the Lolliport adware program (in many cases without a user's knowledge). It usually gets on your PC as an installer for a free game or application. This software bundler installs other potentially unwanted software, including Adware:Win32/Lollipop, at the same time as other software.
Publisher:
Meta Installer LLC  (signed and verified)

MD5:
0768236048855848cd0b7f0c434e57aa

SHA-1:
a730a8efaec1e08e51d9f120c7508ab53033d60a

SHA-256:
6ead174e0cb4421970b883815f2b096b5dd7d68f5dc727ac99360dc8f10b2e49

Scanner detections:
7 / 68

Status:
Adware

Explanation:
This software bundler installs other potentially unwanted software, including Adware:Win32/Lollipop during isntallation without a user's consent.

Description:
This 'download manager' is also considered bundleware, a utility designed to download software (possibly legitimate or opensource) and bundle it with a number of optional offers including ad-supported utilities, toolbars, shopping comparison tools and browser extensions.

Analysis date:
11/15/2024 8:42:27 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Baidu Antivirus
Toolbar.Win32.Babylon potentially unwanted
4.0.3.14516

Dr.Web
Adware.Downware.441
9.0.1.0136

ESET NOD32
Win32/Adware.Lollipop
8.8844

Fortinet FortiGate
W32/Toolbar.BABYLON
5/16/2014

Microsoft Security Essentials
SoftwareBundler:Win32/Lolliport
1.163.1557.0

Reason Heuristics
PUP.MetaInstaller.J
14.8.7.21

VIPRE Antivirus
Lollipop
21834

File size:
280.3 KB (287,040 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
Vittalia DM (using Nullsoft Install System)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\emule050a.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Meta Installer LLC

Authority:
GoDaddy.com, Inc.

Valid from:
3/6/2012 6:17:45 AM

Valid to:
2/16/2013 7:59:09 PM

Subject:
CN=Meta Installer LLC, O=Meta Installer LLC, L=Wilmington, S=DE, C=US

Issuer:
SERIALNUMBER=07969287, CN=Go Daddy Secure Certification Authority, OU=http://certificates.godaddy.com/repository, O="GoDaddy.com, Inc.", L=Scottsdale, S=Arizona, C=US

Serial number:
043DEA1F43D249

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
12/5/2009 11:50:52 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
6144:Be34fbKsPxLZ3yXYTNU+ktvgz4vd8BUcVOkc4Wc40yUf:ff3yXYTpsW4vd8jVOkcEf

Entry address:
0x30FA

Entry point:
81, EC, 80, 01, 00, 00, 53, 55, 56, 33, DB, 57, 89, 5C, 24, 18, C7, 44, 24, 10, 60, 91, 40, 00, 33, F6, C6, 44, 24, 14, 20, FF, 15, 30, 70, 40, 00, 68, 01, 80, 00, 00, FF, 15, B0, 70, 40, 00, 53, FF, 15, 7C, 72, 40, 00, 6A, 08, A3, 18, EC, 42, 00, E8, F1, 2B, 00, 00, A3, 64, EB, 42, 00, 53, 8D, 44, 24, 34, 68, 60, 01, 00, 00, 50, 53, 68, 98, 8F, 42, 00, FF, 15, 58, 71, 40, 00, 68, 54, 91, 40, 00, 68, 60, E3, 42, 00, E8, A4, 28, 00, 00, FF, 15, AC, 70, 40, 00, BF, 00, 40, 43, 00, 50, 57, E8, 92, 28, 00, 00...
 
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Packer / compiler:
Nullsoft install system v2.x

Code size:
23.5 KB (24,064 bytes)

The file emule050a.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

http://www.emule.com/down/.../emule050a.exe

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