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openofficesetup.exe

Application

Top Scale (New Media Holdings Ltd.)

The application openofficesetup.exe, “Application Setup ” by Top Scale (New Media Holdings) 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 installCore installer. With this installer, users are expecting to download the free Apache OpenOffice but before that occurs they may be presented with additional offers, mostly potentially unwanted software or adware.
Publisher:
Installer software   (signed by Top Scale (New Media Holdings Ltd.))

Product:
Application

Description:
Application Setup

MD5:
5a1950b407f65a079e1a22c5df526743

SHA-1:
2c0eca314dda9963644f8d023e0ad7bb2ac59c18

SHA-256:
c5f1d8851f8d7cdf9f9fc7644051a41bc2323f3e9d9de9fa7ae42fa9e3f0a7f2

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:
11/25/2024 2:43:27 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.NewMedia.NMH.Bundler (M)
16.4.10.8

File size:
760.9 KB (779,120 bytes)

Product version:
5.5

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
installCore (using Inno Setup)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\microsoft\windows\temporary internet files\content.ie5\{random}\openofficesetup.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Top Scale (New Media Holdings Ltd.)

Authority:
GlobalSign nv-sa

Valid from:
2/11/2015 6:01:05 PM

Valid to:
2/12/2016 6:01:05 PM

Subject:
CN=Top Scale (New Media Holdings Ltd.), O=Top Scale (New Media Holdings Ltd.), L=Tel Aviv, C=IL

Issuer:
CN=GlobalSign CodeSigning CA - G2, O=GlobalSign nv-sa, C=BE

Serial number:
1121FF0C79830A7B12BE4E698038C29DAF9A

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
6/20/1992 12:22:17 AM

OS version:
1.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.25

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:sDSGfADVFpbzFNH8N+yT+pR/Z/cWhKY/X/xFGkvLMYbmpR52ooEoLj/Gn3+sQ8MN:sDSCkn8Qs+DZ/cU/xFlMYypRcOh8/Tis

Entry address:
0xA5F8

Entry point:
55, 8B, EC, 83, C4, C4, 53, 56, 57, 33, C0, 89, 45, F0, 89, 45, DC, E8, CE, 8A, FF, FF, E8, D5, 9C, FF, FF, E8, 64, 9F, FF, FF, E8, 07, A0, FF, FF, E8, A6, BF, FF, FF, E8, 11, E9, FF, FF, E8, 78, EA, FF, FF, 33, C0, 55, 68, C9, AC, 40, 00, 64, FF, 30, 64, 89, 20, 33, D2, 55, 68, 92, AC, 40, 00, 64, FF, 32, 64, 89, 22, A1, 14, C0, 40, 00, E8, 26, F5, FF, FF, E8, 11, F1, FF, FF, 80, 3D, 34, B2, 40, 00, 00, 74, 0C, E8, 23, F6, FF, FF, 33, C0, E8, C4, 97, FF, FF, 8D, 55, F0, 33, C0, E8, B6, C5, FF, FF, 8B, 55...
 
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Packer / compiler:
Inno Setup v5.x - Installer Maker

Code size:
39.5 KB (40,448 bytes)

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

http://cdn.app-pc.org//c?x=4OATzztafcjLg Icm9MciMS99UBmPL3Jb5 Xz/VShn0=&c=Z87dYkmrML3nYP0jm85Vv/6ocGTRGjXnhtSD7WUfz0LNwKlnIz4J5iHiocOH0FNSqypGjADGr3e4i GFxMp6fJCvy7cJjTq4BcqxYgFKy1scK1xlc/yXip3/2r9SVJbs&downloadAs=OpenOfficeSetup.exe&fallback_url=http://allmyapps.com/binary/562/.../direct-download?token=90c4f1d505d730885cc98010575156fddefdb54b

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