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INSTALL MY SOFTWARE

This adware bundler is distributed through Adknowledge's advertising supported software managers. The application maps.exe, “Software Installer ” by INSTALL MY SOFTWARE 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 Adknowledge Fusion installer. The file has been seen being downloaded from 735322.gosecureinstall.com.
Publisher:
Software Installer   (signed by INSTALL MY SOFTWARE)

Product:
Software Installer

Description:
Software Installer

Version:
2.4.8.1

MD5:
89d9258929f38c0574baeca2cd8d8dac

SHA-1:
58542f5e252baa8927489be63f34d8245cee7c6c

SHA-256:
8ed5ab7557728fb318d0cfd017f4195bbef5e3652d52178822297d0b010f730c

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Adware

Explanation:
This installer bundles various adware prorgams that may include toolbars and web browser advertising injectors/extensions.

Description:
This 'download manager' is also considered bundleware, a utility designed to download software (possibly legitimate or opensource) and bundle it with a number of optional offers including ad-supported utilities, toolbars, shopping comparison tools and browser extensions.

Analysis date:
11/23/2024 9:28:48 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Adknowledge (M)
17.3.14.15

File size:
219.3 KB (224,560 bytes)

Product version:
2.4.8.1

Copyright:
Copyright (C) 2013 Software Installer

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
Adknowledge Fusion

Language:
English (United States)

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
INSTALL MY SOFTWARE

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
10/3/2013 8:00:00 PM

Valid to:
9/20/2014 7:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=INSTALL MY SOFTWARE, OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O=INSTALL MY SOFTWARE, L=Kansas City, S=Missouri, C=US

Issuer:
CN=VeriSign Class 3 Code Signing 2010 CA, OU=Terms of use at https://www.verisign.com/rpa (c)10, OU=VeriSign Trust Network, O="VeriSign, Inc.", C=US

Serial number:
27E76F44FB423CCAF29C43D0034D244D

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
7/5/2014 5:00:20 PM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

Entry address:
0xED47

Entry point:
E8, 40, 36, 00, 00, E9, 78, FE, FF, FF, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 83, EC, 20, 8B, 45, 08, 56, 57, 6A, 08, 59, BE, 48, 72, 42, 00, 8D, 7D, E0, F3, A5, 89, 45, F8, 8B, 45, 0C, 5F, 89, 45, FC, 5E, 85, C0, 74, 0C, F6, 00, 08, 74, 07, C7, 45, F4, 00, 40, 99, 01, 8D, 45, F4, 50, FF, 75, F0, FF, 75, E4, FF, 75, E0, FF, 15, 30, 70, 42, 00, C9, C2, 08, 00, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 51, 53, 8B, 45, 0C, 83, C0, 0C, 89, 45, FC, 64, 8B, 1D, 00, 00, 00, 00, 8B, 03, 64, A3, 00, 00, 00, 00, 8B, 45, 08, 8B, 5D, 0C, 8B, 6D, FC, 8B, 63...
 
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Entropy:
6.3609

Code size:
152 KB (155,648 bytes)

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

http://735322.gosecureinstall.com/o/.../Maps.exe

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