parallax.exe

CONTUMAR EMPRESARIAL S.L.

This belongs to a Solimba product that may be bundled with additional PUPs or may be part of an ad-supported software program. The application parallax.exe by CONTUMAR EMPRESARIAL S.L 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 Solimba DownloadMR installer. It uses the Solimba download manager to push adware offers during the download and setup process. Bundled adware includes search and shopping web browser toolbars.
Publisher:
CONTUMAR EMPRESARIAL S.L.  (signed and verified)

MD5:
486847d1433f2721cbabb83c4dd89f34

SHA-1:
74fd86da29b9acf3541a78b2f1e48eb0c8ca167a

SHA-256:
4a9ba612b38d5931569892a9db89d8335474e536e75a81dbae7957b294a2b6b4

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Adware

Explanation:
Uses the Solimba installer to bundle adware offers.

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:
11/2/2024 7:29:00 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Solimba (M)
16.7.24.8

File size:
614.1 KB (628,840 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
Solimba DownloadMR

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

Digital Signature
Authority:
Unizeto Technologies S.A.

Valid from:
3/10/2015 12:03:50 PM

Valid to:
3/9/2017 12:03:50 PM

Subject:
E=support@contumar.com, CN=CONTUMAR EMPRESARIAL S.L., O=CONTUMAR EMPRESARIAL S.L., C=ES

Issuer:
CN=Certum Code Signing CA, OU=Certum Certification Authority, O=Unizeto Technologies S.A., C=PL

Serial number:
2190367D35CCCBC5D3520A1AF30C9575

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
5/14/2015 11:39:24 AM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
12.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:SrsQGcDvF97B+MqdFcJpP6d2+2mzidu95fALnmY+W:4GcDXYMqIvP6E+2b5jmY+W

Entry address:
0x10F3C

Entry point:
E8, 87, 96, 00, 00, E9, 00, 00, 00, 00, 6A, 14, 68, 50, CC, 42, 00, E8, 4E, 57, 00, 00, E8, 2C, 1D, 00, 00, 0F, B7, F0, 6A, 02, E8, 1A, 96, 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, 44, 4D, 00, 00, 85, C0, 75, 08, 6A, 1C, E8, DC, 00, 00, 00, 59, E8...
 
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Code size:
139 KB (142,336 bytes)

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