flashplayer.exe

Payments Interactive SL

This is the Tuguu DomaIQ download manager which bundles applications with offers for additional 3rd party software, mostly unwanted adware, and may be installed with minimal consent. The application flashplayer.exe by Payments Interactive SL 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 TUGUU DomaIQ Setup installer. With this installer, users are expecting to download the free Adobe Flash Player but before that occurs they may be presented with additional offers, mostly potentially unwanted software or adware.
Publisher:
Payments Interactive SL  (signed and verified)

MD5:
3e470c33d05a44d7c7b166be4245f42c

SHA-1:
e764505e41cf1f88c622c722b274832e5f1d19ad

SHA-256:
922fed2fa353ada998f98bb006d8595b9ae8f02946bb2785e79bd71818a8bb67

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:
11/15/2024 4:53:56 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Tuguu.Payments.Bundler (M)
16.6.3.0

File size:
431.4 KB (441,744 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
TUGUU DomaIQ Setup

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

Digital Signature
Authority:
GoDaddy.com, Inc.

Valid from:
2/7/2014 2:58:55 PM

Valid to:
2/7/2015 2:58:55 PM

Subject:
CN=Payments Interactive SL, O=Payments Interactive SL, L=Adeje, S=Santa cruz de Tenerife, C=ES

Issuer:
CN=Go Daddy Secure Certificate Authority - G2, OU=http://certs.godaddy.com/repository/, O="GoDaddy.com, Inc.", L=Scottsdale, S=Arizona, C=US

Serial number:
2B974AA267457F

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
4/9/2014 6:31:45 PM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
6144:YLkL+jocfjGNouUGCDPJolfCf/EO0ksQyXYf4+UYPskubZmYaQuYu:YwL+ccfjTuUGCDholyb0YHUni

Entry address:
0x2315

Entry point:
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Code size:
108 KB (110,592 bytes)

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

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