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garageband.exe

Delimax Concept

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 garageband.exe by Delimax Concept has been detected as adware by 26 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 get.luckready.com and multiple other hosts.
Publisher:
Delimax Concept  (signed and verified)

MD5:
b5d96f0c99eff160e5799e87c8764b71

SHA-1:
02ad95c0790f898fa2de28474e411ac0950d3cb0

SHA-256:
a1b9b03263b62587c7b8a2a17e6d1af84f001a63805663e759bcfb5c77712ee7

Scanner detections:
26 / 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:
12/26/2024 5:00:28 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Application.Bundler.Morstar.J
6347559

AhnLab V3 Security
PUP/Win32.Morstar
2015.01.09

Avira AntiVirus
APPL/Firseria.Gen
7.11.200.24

AVG
Adware BundleApp_r.AJ
2014.0.4253

Baidu Antivirus
Adware.Win32.Solimba
4.0.3.15114

Bitdefender
Application.Bundler.Morstar.J
1.0.20.70

Comodo Security
Application.Win32.Firseria.GH
20641

Dr.Web
Trojan.DownLoader11.64099
9.0.1.05190

Emsisoft Anti-Malware
Application.Bundler.Morstar
9.0.0.4799

ESET NOD32
MSIL/Solimba.AK.gen potentially unwanted application
7.0.302.0

Fortinet FortiGate
Riskware/Morstars
1/14/2015

F-Prot
W32/S-0d4bbac5
v6.4.7.1.166

F-Secure
Riskware.Application.Bundler.Morstar
5.13.68

G Data
Application.Bundler.Morstar
15.1.24

IKARUS anti.virus
not-a-virus:Downloader.Morstar
t3scan.1.8.6.0

K7 AntiVirus
Unwanted-Program
13.190.14580

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.Solimba
v2015.01.14.03

MicroWorld eScan
Application.Bundler.Morstar.J
16.0.0.42

NANO AntiVirus
Riskware.Win32.Downware.djsrhf
0.30.0.64448

nProtect
Trojan-Clicker/W32.Morstar.580304
15.01.13.01

Panda Antivirus
Trj/Genetic.gen
15.01.14.03

Reason Heuristics
PUP.DelimaxConcept.K
15.1.14.15

Sophos
PUA 'Solimba Installer'
5.09

Vba32 AntiVirus
Downware.Morstar
3.12.26.3

VIPRE Antivirus
DownloadMR
36474

Zillya! Antivirus
Backdoor.PePatch.Win32.58482
2.0.0.2033

File size:
566.7 KB (580,304 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
Solimba DownloadMR

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Delimax Concept

Authority:
Thawte, Inc.

Valid from:
9/24/2014 1:00:00 AM

Valid to:
9/24/2016 12:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=Delimax Concept, O=Delimax Concept, L=Barcelona, S=Barcelona, C=ES

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

Serial number:
069CC4A932F0EBBF4CDE6CBB8C7AAD67

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
12/23/2014 9:29:08 AM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
12.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:87KIY9QLsDTE+n/0yrCY2ygd/55+JOUNeKU1dAe/eqtMf/rxAf3bvuO9dk:87K9/DT3/NrCYuLCOCUQe7MnravuOI

Entry address:
0xD44C

Entry point:
E8, AF, 6C, 00, 00, E9, 00, 00, 00, 00, 6A, 14, 68, 00, 60, 42, 00, E8, FE, 15, 00, 00, E8, 80, 6E, 00, 00, 0F, B7, F0, 6A, 02, E8, 42, 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, 0B, 65, 00, 00, 85, C0, 75, 08, 6A, 1C, E8, DC, 00, 00, 00, 59, E8...
 
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Entropy:
7.7223  (probably packed)

Code size:
111 KB (113,664 bytes)

The file garageband.exe has been seen being distributed by the following 2 URLs.

http://get.luckready.com/n/3.2.53/.../GarageBand.exe

http://bentfolder.com/n/3.2.53/.../GarageBand.exe

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