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salus.exe

IMedia Holdings Ltd.

The application salus.exe by IMedia 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 NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) installer. It is also typically executed from the user's temporary directory. The file has been seen being downloaded from cached.dataurls.com.
Publisher:
IMedia Holdings Ltd.  (signed and verified)

Description:
Install

Version:
2.05.27.0

MD5:
75c299b4c5979d7442f68acbe06de06d

SHA-1:
4325663ad7da3bb83b7381e75470856c709ba054

SHA-256:
08ec2af1c6731742c3d08a94a2c855ee0417242f1ba7cba88ea50ef78d0257f9

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.

Analysis date:
12/26/2024 12:56:37 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.iMedia.IMediaHoldings.Installer (M)
16.1.12.11

File size:
3.9 MB (4,067,464 bytes)

Copyright:
© 2015

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\temp\{random}.tmp\salus.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
IMedia Holdings Ltd.

Authority:
COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:
5/18/2015 5:00:00 PM

Valid to:
12/25/2015 3:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=IMedia Holdings Ltd., OU=IMedia Holdings Ltd., O=IMedia Holdings Ltd., STREET=63 Hoi Yuen Road Kwun Tong, L="Kwun Tong, Kowloon", S=Kowloon, PostalCode=000000, C=HK

Issuer:
CN=COMODO Code Signing CA 2, O=COMODO CA Limited, L=Salford, S=Greater Manchester, C=GB

Serial number:
4CCDC952B43D5F4E4C9E99C70634ACF1

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
12/24/2013 9:01:35 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
98304:GpVzPrKbYFEnG7N8MH5G1cyfQ3RbBGetejkO:GT9N/5GTQ3RoesV

Entry address:
0x3219

Entry point:
81, EC, 84, 01, 00, 00, 53, 55, 56, 33, DB, 57, 89, 5C, 24, 18, C7, 44, 24, 10, 30, 91, 40, 00, 89, 5C, 24, 20, C6, 44, 24, 14, 20, FF, 15, 34, 70, 40, 00, 68, 01, 80, 00, 00, FF, 15, B4, 70, 40, 00, 53, FF, 15, 8C, 72, 40, 00, 6A, 08, A3, 98, 37, 42, 00, E8, AD, 2D, 00, 00, A3, E4, 36, 42, 00, 53, 8D, 44, 24, 38, 68, 60, 01, 00, 00, 50, 53, 68, A0, EC, 41, 00, FF, 15, 64, 71, 40, 00, 68, E4, 91, 40, 00, 68, E0, 2E, 42, 00, E8, 57, 2A, 00, 00, FF, 15, B0, 70, 40, 00, BD, 00, 90, 42, 00, 50, 55, E8, 45, 2A...
 
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Entropy:
7.9994

Packer / compiler:
Nullsoft install system v2.x

Code size:
23 KB (23,552 bytes)

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

http://cached.dataurls.com/si6vt20dfg25.exe

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