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MicroSmarts LLC

The application pacventure.exe, “Setup Factory 6.0 Setup Launcher” by MicroSmarts has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. This is a setup and installation application and has been known to bundle potentially unwanted software. The file has been seen being downloaded from files.downloadnow.com and multiple other hosts.
Publisher:
Indigo Rose Corporation http://www.indigorose.com  (signed by MicroSmarts LLC)

Product:
setup

Description:
Setup Factory 6.0 Setup Launcher

Version:
6.0.1.2

MD5:
8f9c0f045b623dbd5c649804818e866a

SHA-1:
ceed5c62f9043e9810185360fa95da27a032c8a7

SHA-256:
ec6cf8f9a28e7d5380ac131c1861f6a8dd7512a8208b9990f1813b3d7bd6c97b

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

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.

Analysis date:
12/24/2024 12:27:34 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.MicroSmarts.Installer (M)
16.2.15.3

File size:
6.2 MB (6,506,792 bytes)

Product version:
6.0.1.2

Copyright:
Copyright © 2001 - 2002 Indigo Rose Corporation

Trademarks:
Setup Factory is a trademark of Indigo Rose Corporation.

Original file name:
setup.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
English (United States)

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
MicroSmarts LLC

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
1/10/2006 10:00:00 PM

Valid to:
2/8/2007 9:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=MicroSmarts LLC, OU=Software Division, OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O=MicroSmarts LLC, L=Olympia Fields, S=Illinois, C=US

Issuer:
CN=VeriSign Class 3 Code Signing 2004 CA, OU=Terms of use at https://www.verisign.com/rpa (c)04, OU=VeriSign Trust Network, O="VeriSign, Inc.", C=US

Serial number:
0A05FB8C4594C38F227619F664EEE6

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
9/23/2002 4:04:02 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
98304:OJh+PBaoCFKCzJN/fOp98bLlqTG8lJJhUr/4xR+Ug53buCS4eOow/cTiy3EdcD9k:Or+wkCVxuMpq9lJJU4uFlS4ejiy3EdQk

Entry address:
0x28B1

Entry point:
55, 8B, EC, 6A, FF, 68, 90, 61, 40, 00, 68, B0, 3B, 40, 00, 64, A1, 00, 00, 00, 00, 50, 64, 89, 25, 00, 00, 00, 00, 83, EC, 58, 53, 56, 57, 89, 65, E8, FF, 15, 14, 61, 40, 00, 33, D2, 8A, D4, 89, 15, 5C, 89, 40, 00, 8B, C8, 81, E1, FF, 00, 00, 00, 89, 0D, 58, 89, 40, 00, C1, E1, 08, 03, CA, 89, 0D, 54, 89, 40, 00, C1, E8, 10, A3, 50, 89, 40, 00, 33, F6, 56, E8, E0, 00, 00, 00, 59, 85, C0, 75, 08, 6A, 1C, E8, B0, 00, 00, 00, 59, 89, 75, FC, E8, E6, 0F, 00, 00, FF, 15, 10, 61, 40, 00, A3, 40, 8E, 40, 00, E8...
 
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Developed / compiled with:
Microsoft Visual C++ v6.0

Code size:
20 KB (20,480 bytes)

The file pacventure.exe has been seen being distributed by the following 2 URLs.

http://files.downloadnow.com/s/software/10/58/22/.../pacventure.exe

temp:pacventure.exe

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