player.exe

Payments Interactive SL

This is the Tuguu DomaIQ download manager which bundles applications with offers for additional 3rd party software, mostly unwanted adware, and may be installed with minimal consent. The application player.exe by Payments Interactive SL 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 TUGUU DomaIQ Setup installer. It is also typically executed from an Internet Explorer cache folder. The file has been seen being downloaded from dlp.cloudfile002.com.
Publisher:
Payments Interactive SL  (signed and verified)

MD5:
1a8ae36cbb4aa6cabbb62b012f7c2605

SHA-1:
045a69e2e0072daded769db8819ed0fc8b11f6d2

SHA-256:
914c1b3d6174eed64552a521e475c19292a442b70cd9ca1ba415f2ca76bbaa5d

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:
12/29/2024 9:43:01 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Tuguu.PaymentsInteractive.Bundler (M)
16.1.8.1

File size:
454.6 KB (465,504 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
TUGUU DomaIQ Setup

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

Digital Signature
Authority:
DigiCert Inc

Valid from:
10/15/2013 2:00:00 AM

Valid to:
12/19/2014 1:00:00 PM

Subject:
CN=Payments Interactive SL, O=Payments Interactive SL, L=Puntagorda, S=Santa Cruz de Tenerife / Canarias, C=ES

Issuer:
CN=DigiCert Assured ID Code Signing CA-1, OU=www.digicert.com, O=DigiCert Inc, C=US

Serial number:
060CE3456FDDB3F98DA9EDA1B876842F

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
1/17/2014 6:50:27 PM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
6144:5vaqS4IR/kviXzd45seH6zdi69hxMwjPVl0x55TurrU41APIJgU6Xozwdab0BXl4:0/kviXzdcH6N9h/Vl45aPU4EEkdBb4

Entry address:
0xC4D7

Entry point:
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Code size:
110.5 KB (113,152 bytes)

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

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