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giantsavings.exe

Giant Savings

Excellent Apps

This is the installer application for a 50onRed advertising supported software package (displays ads in the browser and may hijack the home and search pages of the web browser). The application giantsavings.exe, “Giant Savings Installer” by Excellent Apps 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 Nullsoft Install System installer.
Publisher:
215 Apps  (signed by Excellent Apps)

Product:
Giant Savings

Description:
Giant Savings Installer

Version:
1.26.152.152

MD5:
cfc46b86f8c94bcd8cf0d674233b585d

SHA-1:
0d7879b790177efdfbd4fef67e4d1647a81de6df

SHA-256:
92206b270392ca68a976540b9599fb6aa39fc653220a1031ae4efb823b4dcfff

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.

Analysis date:
11/5/2024 7:30:05 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.50OnRed (M)
16.12.11.4

File size:
3.2 MB (3,347,288 bytes)

Copyright:
Copyright 215 Apps

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
Nullsoft Install System

Language:
English (United States)

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Excellent Apps

Authority:
Thawte, Inc.

Valid from:
8/29/2012 2:00:00 AM

Valid to:
8/30/2013 1:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=Excellent Apps, O=Excellent Apps, L=Philadelphia, S=Pennsylvania, C=US

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

Serial number:
6D2FB6375D3A8788B735FEDBD060732B

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
1/5/2010 1:09:32 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.56

Entry address:
0x4044

Entry point:
55, 89, E5, 57, 56, 53, 81, EC, AC, 01, 00, 00, E8, 97, 52, 00, 00, C7, 04, 24, 01, 80, 00, 00, E8, 43, 4F, 00, 00, 56, C7, 04, 24, 00, 00, 00, 00, E8, A6, 52, 00, 00, A3, 88, 5C, 42, 00, 53, C7, 04, 24, 08, 00, 00, 00, E8, 26, 32, 00, 00, A3, 38, 5D, 42, 00, 8D, 85, 84, FE, FF, FF, 51, C7, 44, 24, 10, 00, 00, 00, 00, C7, 44, 24, 0C, 60, 01, 00, 00, 89, 44, 24, 08, C7, 44, 24, 04, 00, 00, 00, 00, C7, 04, 24, A4, B2, 40, 00, E8, D0, 51, 00, 00, 83, EC, 14, C7, 44, 24, 04, A5, B2, 40, 00, C7, 04, 24, 68, 5D...
 
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Code size:
33 KB (33,792 bytes)

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