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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 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. The program is a setup application that uses the YourFile Downloader installer. The file has been seen being downloaded from www.simple-files.com.
Publisher:
Technology Island, Inc.  (signed and verified)

Product:
SimpleFiles Installer

Version:
1.0.0.1

MD5:
efb8af4446c0545d23409a2e6ccadb9b

SHA-1:
f4c03b4b27923d01421aea4a2a07f4163c80af06

SHA-256:
d600a1f5f99fbd8a21471e17e1cb65b45bb389e19279fc41f1ca7a725255b6cd

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 3:49:25 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Installer.TechnologyIsland.J
14.7.29.12

File size:
3 MB (3,191,728 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

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:
5/26/2014 7:13:29 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
12.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
98304:SBb6Q1gR2Gz8F0k6mL+mPj0qVsKu/yCR85MB+:SBb6QWJz20pJmPPVtu/yu8iB+

Entry address:
0x32D12

Entry point:
E8, DD, A5, 00, 00, E9, 00, 00, 00, 00, 6A, 14, 68, 80, C5, 49, 00, E8, F8, 13, 00, 00, E8, 03, 5F, 00, 00, 0F, B7, F0, 6A, 02, E8, 70, A5, 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, 1B, 6F, 00, 00, 85, C0, 75, 08, 6A, 1C, E8, DC, 00, 00, 00, 59, E8...
 
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Entropy:
7.7621  (probably packed)

Code size:
521 KB (533,504 bytes)

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

http://www.simple-files.com/installer.exe

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