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firefox setup.exe

Hoto

Darwen Marketing Inc.

The installer utilizes the installCore download manager which may bundle additional offers for various ad-supported toolbars, extensions and utilities. The application firefox setup.exe, “Hoto Setup ” by Darwen Marketing has been detected as adware 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. With this installer, users are expecting to download the free Mozilla Firefox web browser but before that occurs they may be presented with additional offers, mostly potentially unwanted software or adware.

File name:

firefox setup.exe

Publisher:

Dadebo (signed by Darwen Marketing Inc.)

Product:

Hoto

Description:

Hoto Setup

Version:

2.8.4.7

MD5:

0f1aa7b60b6ce23facbbbe21d1972dc9

SHA-1:

5bd57842c5cee73e10cd2e2990a162f0753728ce

SHA-256:

9b80b9c681026bd7fea49aae1cde8b080c760411ec1aa7661830f279dac8cbfe

Scanner detections:

1 / 68

Status:

Adware

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:

11/27/2024 2:09:55 AM UTC (today)

Scan engine

Detection

Engine version

Reason Heuristics

PUP.installCore.DarwenMa.Installer (M)

16.4.4.13

File size:

1019.6 KB (1,044,080 bytes)

Product version:

5.3.3

File type:

Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:

installCore (using Inno Setup)

Language:

Language Neutral

Common path:

C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\microsoft\windows\inetcache\ie\{random}\firefox setup.exe

Digital Signature

Signed by:

Darwen Marketing Inc.

Authority:

thawte, Inc.

Valid from:

2/16/2016 8:00:00 AM

Valid to:

5/18/2017 7:59:59 AM

Subject:

CN=Darwen Marketing Inc., OU=IT, O=Darwen Marketing Inc., L=Victoria, S=British Columbia, C=CA

Issuer:

CN=thawte SHA256 Code Signing CA, O="thawte, Inc.", C=US

Serial number:

1F1F22B813CDB509DAAD9139C753C40F

File PE Metadata

Compilation timestamp:

6/20/1992 6:22:17 AM

OS version:

1.0

OS bitness:

Win32

Subsystem:

Windows GUI

Linker version:

2.25

CTPH (ssdeep):

24576:4kBsNRYFVgYLNg7wMVwjy76tYrf4E5PeJaU14WrrwvmO:4HrQgYeVNgQ4CW1420B

Entry address:

0xA5F8

Entry point:

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Entropy:

7.9115

Packer / compiler:

Inno Setup v5.x - Installer Maker

Code size:

39.5 KB (40,448 bytes)

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