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App Setup (New Media Holdings Ltd.)

The installer utilizes the installCore download manager which may bundle additional offers for various ad-supported toolbars, extensions and utilities. The application fileextractorsetup.exe by App Setup (New Media Holdings) has been detected as adware by 4 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the installCore installer. The setup program uses the InstallCore engine which may bundle additional software offers including toolbars and browser extensions. The file has been seen being downloaded from cdn.appsdownloadportdemo.com.
Publisher:
App Setup (New Media Holdings Ltd.)  (signed and verified)

MD5:
b33baf472244a494e7223f27ce763a0f

SHA-1:
e2fed12726e2f728d6c5e7702d1d65fbf69ae060

SHA-256:
6015c0bbbcfbe7bc89198b25021087d7d09a6b8b2f08a7077c87c64cb5c337e9

Scanner detections:
4 / 68

Status:
Adware

Explanation:
Uses the InstallCore download manager to install additional potentially unwanted software which may include extensions such as DealPly and various toolbars.

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:
11/16/2024 6:20:51 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Avira AntiVirus
ADWARE/InstallCore.Gen9
7.11.189.28

ESET NOD32
Win32/InstallCore.QW potentially unwanted application
7.0.302.0

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Installer.New Media Holdings
15.2.14.11

VIPRE Antivirus
Threat.4786018
35088

File size:
900.9 KB (922,472 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
installCore (using Inno Setup)

Language:
Language Neutral

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
App Setup (New Media Holdings Ltd.)

Authority:
COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:
8/12/2014 3:00:00 AM

Valid to:
8/13/2015 2:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=App Setup (New Media Holdings Ltd.), O=App Setup (New Media Holdings Ltd.), STREET=28 Lilinblum St., L=Tel-Aviv, S=Israel, PostalCode=6513307, C=IL

Issuer:
CN=COMODO Code Signing CA 2, O=COMODO CA Limited, L=Salford, S=Greater Manchester, C=GB

Serial number:
008BC1F190247761BE80C4C143ACE2BCD1

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
6/20/1992 1:22:17 AM

OS version:
1.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.25

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:/cFsI2z37s7oVJprGnm1L0r69haH8JszIio2VuT:/2iz37s0V7rrFhaHxz3O

Entry address:
0x9C40

Entry point:
55, 8B, EC, 83, C4, C4, 53, 56, 57, 33, C0, 89, 45, F0, 89, 45, DC, E8, 86, 94, FF, FF, E8, 8D, A6, FF, FF, E8, 1C, A9, FF, FF, E8, BF, A9, FF, FF, E8, 5E, C9, FF, FF, E8, C9, F2, FF, FF, E8, 30, F4, FF, FF, 33, C0, 55, 68, FC, A2, 40, 00, 64, FF, 30, 64, 89, 20, 33, D2, 55, 68, C5, A2, 40, 00, 64, FF, 32, 64, 89, 22, A1, 14, C0, 40, 00, E8, 96, FE, FF, FF, E8, C9, FA, FF, FF, 8D, 55, F0, 33, C0, E8, 83, CF, FF, FF, 8B, 55, F0, B8, 24, CE, 40, 00, E8, 32, 95, FF, FF, 6A, 02, 6A, 00, 6A, 01, 8B, 0D, 24, CE...
 
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Entropy:
7.8605

Packer / compiler:
Inno Setup v5.x - Installer Maker

Code size:
37 KB (37,888 bytes)

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

http://cdn.appsdownloadportdemo.com/?ic_user_id=100

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