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SimpleFiles Installer

Technology Island, Inc.

This is the Via Advertising bundle installer which bundles applications with offers for additional 3rd party software, mostly unwanted adware, and may be installed with minimal consent. The application installer.exe by Technology Island has been detected as adware by 10 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the YourFile Downloader installer.
Publisher:
Technology Island, Inc.  (signed and verified)

Product:
SimpleFiles Installer

Version:
1, 0, 34, 1

MD5:
8d0566c7e80054f991f60516a81b602f

SHA-1:
e3c72fa314ff59e195a8ccac3d6c6529a9debf50

SHA-256:
b1107af9368758c45ee1ca40061f70a22d838ad92b6a56ce895e4452edc8b369

Scanner detections:
10 / 68

Status:
Adware

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 2:47:59 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

avast!
Win32:Malware-gen
2014.9-140814

AVG
Generic
2015.0.3381

ESET NOD32
Win32/ExpressDownloader.J potentially unwanted application
8.7.0.302.0

herdProtect (fuzzy)
variant of SimpleFilesInstaller.exe (Adware)
2014.10.30.6

IKARUS anti.virus
PUA.Expressdownloader
t3scan.1.7.5.0

Kaspersky
not-a-virus:Downloader.Win32.Agent
14.0.0.3407

McAfee
Trojan.Artemis!8D0566C7E800
5600.7036

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Installer.TechnologyIsland.J
14.8.14.13

Vba32 AntiVirus
Downloader.Agent
3.12.26.3

VIPRE Antivirus
Threat.4925438
32210

File size:
3.1 MB (3,210,896 bytes)

Product version:
1.0.0.1

Copyright:
Copyright http://simple-files.com (C) 2014

Original file name:
SimpleFilesInstaller.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
YourFile Downloader

Language:
English

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Technology Island, Inc.

Authority:
COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:
8/3/2012 2:00:00 AM

Valid to:
8/4/2014 1:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN="Technology Island, Inc.", O="Technology Island, Inc.", STREET="1740 H Dell Range Blvd #281", L=Cheyenne, S=Wyoming, PostalCode=82009, C=US

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

Serial number:
00C4B79CE2BFD68D5C070C51E7F2C237C5

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
7/7/2014 5:07:49 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
11.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
98304:hSuRtGx6q8HBBoeqRHpT3tlC0GMdnKiF6GcY80zqwmxyX404e43CiIk+5bbX2QEc:hVoGBoPZGOKiFDhq9D+LDb6sqs

Entry address:
0x35D240

Entry point:
60, BE, 00, C0, 46, 00, 8D, BE, 00, 50, F9, FF, 57, EB, 0B, 90, 8A, 06, 46, 88, 07, 47, 01, DB, 75, 07, 8B, 1E, 83, EE, FC, 11, DB, 72, ED, B8, 01, 00, 00, 00, 01, DB, 75, 07, 8B, 1E, 83, EE, FC, 11, DB, 11, C0, 01, DB, 73, 0B, 75, 28, 8B, 1E, 83, EE, FC, 11, DB, 72, 1F, 48, 01, DB, 75, 07, 8B, 1E, 83, EE, FC, 11, DB, 11, C0, EB, D4, 01, DB, 75, 07, 8B, 1E, 83, EE, FC, 11, DB, 11, C9, EB, 52, 31, C9, 83, E8, 03, 72, 11, C1, E0, 08, 8A, 06, 46, 83, F0, FF, 74, 75, D1, F8, 89, C5, EB, 0B, 01, DB, 75, 07, 8B...
 
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Packer / compiler:
UPX v0.89.6 - v1.02 / v1.05 -v1.24

Code size:
2.9 MB (3,088,384 bytes)

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