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setup-openoffice.exe

Secure Installer

The installer utilizes the installCore download manager which may bundle additional offers for various ad-supported toolbars, extensions and utilities. The application setup-openoffice.exe by Secure Installer has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 8 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the installCore installer. The setup program uses the InstallCore engine which may bundle additional software offers including toolbars and browser extensions. The installer is marketed through download protals and search ads as the free Apache OpenOffice but will also install additional software offers which include adware, PUPs and browser toolbars.
Publisher:
Secure Installer  (signed and verified)

MD5:
33d3f4f17a23adb4f3bff5c25906f0a8

SHA-1:
5b2725d966afa701aae04eede877794c78d6997f

SHA-256:
840df5294c7459ed90ceea85fb788913a3bf83effad3942a72e789206672726e

Scanner detections:
8 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Explanation:
Uses the InstallCore download manager to install additional potentially unwanted software which may include extensions such as DealPly and various toolbars.

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:
12/26/2024 3:31:18 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Avira AntiVirus
ADWARE/InstallCore.Gen
7.11.83.146

Comodo Security
UnclassifiedMalware
16392

ESET NOD32
Win32/InstallCore.AY (variant)
9.8424

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Installer.SecureInstaller
15.4.25.19

Sophos
Install Core
4.89

Trend Micro House Call
TROJ_GEN.F47V1005
7.2.115

Vba32 AntiVirus
Malware-Cryptor.InstallCore.9
3.12.22.2

VIPRE Antivirus
InstallCore
18516

File size:
1 MB (1,097,640 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
installCore

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\setup-openoffice.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Secure Installer

Authority:
COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:
9/25/2012 2:00:00 AM

Valid to:
9/26/2013 1:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=Secure Installer, O=Secure Installer, STREET=720 Market Street, STREET=5th floor, L=San Francisco, S=CA, PostalCode=94102, C=US

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

Serial number:
00C3507C1ADDE6B4C52E5426990F85CA2B

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
6/20/1992 12:22:17 AM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.25

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:mJBHTzW/Yk/OmG6RP5gw1xLOUrcSBy0sZFVkew1eb/2XlJP:mzHTzQLTZOwjOUrcSBn7V1U/2b

Entry address:
0xCA9A0

Entry point:
55, 8B, EC, 83, C4, F0, B8, 68, DB, 41, 00, E8, 66, E0, FF, FF, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, E8, 10, 40, 00, 04, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, D4, 36, 40, 00, E0, 36, 40, 00, E4, 36, 40, 00, E8, 36, 40, 00, DC, 36, 40, 00, 3C, 34, 40, 00, 58, 34, 40, 00, 94, 34, 40, 00, 07, 54, 4F, 62, 6A, 65, 63, 74, F4, 10, 40, 00, 07, 07, 54, 4F, 62, 6A, 65, 63, 74, E8, 10, 40, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 06, 53, 79, 73, 74, 65, 6D, 00, 00, 14, 11, 40, 00, 0F, 0A, 49, 49, 6E, 74, 65, 72, 66, 61, 63, 65, 00, 00, 00, 00...
 
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Developed / compiled with:
Microsoft Visual C++

Code size:
828 KB (847,872 bytes)

The file setup-openoffice.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

http://media.downloadster.net/setup-OpenOffice.exe

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