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santa-claus-in-trouble-1.1f-downloader.exe

Covus Freemium GmbH

The application santa-claus-in-trouble-1.1f-downloader.exe by Covus Freemium GmbH has been detected as a potentially unwanted program 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 Covus installer. The file has been seen being downloaded from downloader.chip.de.
Publisher:
Covus Freemium GmbH  (signed and verified)

MD5:
9ce718e43b0f8dff37acad2c1bdde4de

SHA-1:
3543cb994b581c16a6fde20af1431d6193e3b3a9

SHA-256:
21625ab0647ed92c98e9fdf20ee826cc19b8cf49d24c5eaa192ec5acc8b3adeb

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Explanation:
Includes bundled offers in the installer/download manager that include adware components such as Best-markit, and Search Protect (ClientConnect).

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:
12/25/2024 1:56:31 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Covus (M)
16.8.8.10

File size:
455.9 KB (466,872 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
Covus

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\santa-claus-in-trouble-1.1f-downloader.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Covus Freemium GmbH

Authority:
GlobalSign nv-sa

Valid from:
1/28/2013 11:21:57 AM

Valid to:
1/29/2015 11:21:57 AM

Subject:
CN=Covus Freemium GmbH, O=Covus Freemium GmbH, L=Berlin, S=Berlin, C=DE

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

Serial number:
11211DBCB8A07ED407612FC406EFD259BE29

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
5/7/2014 10:09:26 AM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
10.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
6144:/tOYqmmc1v95+3nK5Q2Zf04kNDjE16suePoF6GH8VPflPrbZ3Mz7VvU+T4reQjt4:/t1qivM3/0c4k0cuVX1a5XELp4

Entry address:
0x1B376

Entry point:
E8, 9E, 48, 00, 00, E9, 89, FE, FF, FF, 8B, 44, 24, 08, 8B, 4C, 24, 10, 0B, C8, 8B, 4C, 24, 0C, 75, 09, 8B, 44, 24, 04, F7, E1, C2, 10, 00, 53, F7, E1, 8B, D8, 8B, 44, 24, 08, F7, 64, 24, 14, 03, D8, 8B, 44, 24, 08, F7, E1, 03, D3, 5B, C2, 10, 00, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 83, EC, 20, 8B, 45, 08, 56, 57, 6A, 08, 59, BE, EC, 8D, 42, 00, 8D, 7D, E0, F3, A5, 89, 45, F8, 8B, 45, 0C, 5F, 89, 45, FC, 5E, 85, C0, 74, 0C, F6, 00, 08, 74, 07, C7, 45, F4, 00, 40, 99, 01, 8D, 45, F4, 50, FF, 75, F0, FF, 75, E4, FF, 75, E0...
 
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Code size:
152 KB (155,648 bytes)

The file santa-claus-in-trouble-1.1f-downloader.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

http://downloader.chip.de/thirdpartyproxy/.../downloader-covus_create.php?cid=91239

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