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excel recovery.exe

Thawte manager

Eilio Developments s.l.

This belongs to a Solimba product that may be bundled with additional PUPs or may be part of an ad-supported software program. The application excel recovery.exe by Eilio Developments s.l has been detected as adware by 33 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the Solimba DownloadMR installer. It uses the Solimba download manager to push adware offers during the download and setup process. Bundled adware includes search and shopping web browser toolbars. The file has been seen being downloaded from dl.fasterdownloadthisfile.com.
Publisher:
Thawte.Installer_S.L.  (signed by Eilio Developments s.l.)

Product:
Thawte manager

Description:
Installer

Version:
3.1.22.18.4

MD5:
fca9ef424adad344cfd71732937887bb

SHA-1:
c15000ae5160b2b8610e65d9ddc945db5c168a37

SHA-256:
c838159a869b13c961178f4b5560a03ed565ff8c7e7c29fb2f4ae6747d3ebd0d

Scanner detections:
33 / 68

Status:
Adware

Explanation:
Uses the Solimba installer to bundle adware offers.

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:
12/25/2024 12:07:00 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler.Kazy.132995
833

Agnitum Outpost
PUA.Solimba
7.1.1

AhnLab V3 Security
PUP/Win32.Solimba
2014.09.25

Avira AntiVirus
APPL/Firseria.Gen8
7.11.173.38

avast!
Win32:GenMalicious-AEY [PUP]
141025-0

AVG
Adware BundleApp.HC
2014.0.4040

Baidu Antivirus
Adware.MSIL.Solimba
4.0.3.141025

Bitdefender
Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler.Kazy.132995
1.0.20.1490

Clam AntiVirus
Win.Trojan.Morstar-21
0.98/19418

Comodo Security
Application.Win32.Solimba.LSW
19607

Dr.Web
Trojan.DownLoader11.24441
9.0.1.05190

Emsisoft Anti-Malware
Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler.Kazy.132995
14.10.25

ESET NOD32
MSIL/Solimba.AH potentially unwanted application
7.0.302.0

Fortinet FortiGate
Riskware/Morstar
10/25/2014

F-Prot
W32/A-a79dd9a7
v6.4.7.1.166

F-Secure
Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler
11.2014-25-10_7

G Data
Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler.Kazy.132995
14.10.24

IKARUS anti.virus
AdWare.BundleApp
t3scan.1.7.8.0

K7 AntiVirus
Unwanted-Program
13.183.13463

Kaspersky
not-a-virus:Downloader.Win32.Morstar
15.0.0.494

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.Solimba
v2014.10.25.05

McAfee
Artemis!324D7EA2AF93
5600.6967

MicroWorld eScan
Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler.Kazy.132995
15.0.0.894

NANO AntiVirus
Trojan.Win32.Morstar.dfgpsr
0.28.2.62151

nProtect
Trojan.Generic.11823520
14.09.28.01

Panda Antivirus
Trj/CI.A
14.10.25.05

Qihoo 360 Security
Win32/Application.73f
1.0.0.1015

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Installer.EilioDevelopmentssl.O
14.10.25.5

Sophos
Solimba Installer
4.98

Trend Micro House Call
TROJ_GEN.F0C2H00IM14
7.2.298

Vba32 AntiVirus
Downware.Morstar
3.12.26.3

VIPRE Antivirus
Threat.4150696
33120

Zillya! Antivirus
Downloader.Morstar.Win32.84
2.0.0.1929

File size:
517.7 KB (530,136 bytes)

Product version:
3.1.22

Copyright:
copyright © 2014

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
Solimba DownloadMR

Language:
Language Neutral

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Eilio Developments s.l.

Authority:
Thawte, Inc.

Valid from:
7/25/2014 5:30:00 AM

Valid to:
7/25/2016 5:29:59 AM

Subject:
CN=Eilio Developments s.l., O=Eilio Developments s.l., L=Barcelona, S=Barcelona, C=ES

Issuer:
CN=Thawte Code Signing CA - G2, O="Thawte, Inc.", C=US

Serial number:
62A9979715091C35A10D5CC1298205DA

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
9/18/2014 1:41:59 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
12.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:rmvQlk6OnF+T6zgSZQKxKFKAdK3QFvEqZ0YHw4GiYJBDhrCVi/:rmvQC5+TlSZQkENdK3QyqZ0YHNGlZsi/

Entry address:
0xDFEC

Entry point:
E8, AE, 6C, 00, 00, E9, 00, 00, 00, 00, 6A, 14, 68, 48, 70, 42, 00, E8, FE, 15, 00, 00, E8, 7F, 6E, 00, 00, 0F, B7, F0, 6A, 02, E8, 41, 6C, 00, 00, 59, B8, 4D, 5A, 00, 00, 66, 39, 05, 00, 00, 40, 00, 74, 04, 33, DB, EB, 33, A1, 3C, 00, 40, 00, 81, B8, 00, 00, 40, 00, 50, 45, 00, 00, 75, EB, B9, 0B, 01, 00, 00, 66, 39, 88, 18, 00, 40, 00, 75, DD, 33, DB, 83, B8, 74, 00, 40, 00, 0E, 76, 09, 39, 98, E8, 00, 40, 00, 0F, 95, C3, 89, 5D, E4, E8, 0A, 65, 00, 00, 85, C0, 75, 08, 6A, 1C, E8, DC, 00, 00, 00, 59, E8...
 
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Entropy:
7.6844

Code size:
114 KB (116,736 bytes)

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

http://dl.fasterdownloadthisfile.com/n/3.1.22.18.4/.../Excel Recovery.exe

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