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office_setup.exe

LoadIt

Premium Installer

This adware bundler is distributed through Adknowledge's advertising supported software managers. The application office_setup.exe, “OpenOffice ” by Premium Installer 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.
Publisher:
Premium Installer  (signed and verified)

Product:
LoadIt

Description:
OpenOffice

Version:
2, 0, 0, 0

MD5:
154e7329c1feed81e5191fd90d629fb4

SHA-1:
4dd3de78aa5c979cae76b17f7472140a52495ef9

SHA-256:
a485a2ef678fc89488fa1e27e4467bab10806c44e6f7e082bfc20a4c1139b032

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Adware

Explanation:
This setup/installer bundles various adware components.

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:
11/23/2024 10:48:58 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Adknowledge (M)
17.3.13.2

File size:
75.8 KB (77,608 bytes)

Product version:
2, 0, 0, 0

Copyright:
Copyright (C) 2013

Original file name:
LoadIt.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
Adknowledge Fusion

Language:
English (United States)

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Premium Installer

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
7/12/2012 2:00:00 AM

Valid to:
7/13/2013 1:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=Premium Installer, OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O=Premium Installer, L=Wilmington, S=Delaware, 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:
706520EBEF7703A74B71E96735FFEA17

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
6/12/2013 8:49:34 PM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

Entry address:
0x3605

Entry point:
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Code size:
37.5 KB (38,400 bytes)

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