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Superior Installer

Forwarddevelop

This adware bundler is distributed through Adknowledge's advertising supported software managers. The application setup.exe by Forwarddevelop has been detected as adware by 4 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the Adknowledge Fusion installer.
Publisher:
Forwarddevelop  (signed and verified)

Product:
Superior Installer

MD5:
81471a3d28041de4ec68a13dab3ab741

SHA-1:
12a297624757e272a690c6a8279493c8ae0101af

SHA-256:
51358203e668212aa7dc4c31b51de00b4b3efe2fa15ab977073da34f5eb94e1c

Scanner detections:
4 / 68

Status:
Adware

Explanation:
This installer bundles various adware prorgams that may include toolbars and web browser advertising injectors/extensions.

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:
12/26/2024 12:55:34 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

AVG
AdPlugin
2016.0.3215

ESET NOD32
Win32/Adware.iBryte.BY application
7.0.302.0

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Installer.Adknowledge
15.2.14.11

VIPRE Antivirus
Threat.4798837
36694

File size:
492 KB (503,776 bytes)

Product version:
2.4.8.1

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
Adknowledge Fusion (using Inno Setup)

Language:
Language Neutral

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Forwarddevelop

Authority:
COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:
7/15/2014 7:00:00 PM

Valid to:
7/16/2015 6:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Forwarddevelop, O=Forwarddevelop, STREET=4600 Madison Ave FL 10, L=Kansas City, S=Missouri, PostalCode=64112, C=US

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

Serial number:
00CF4A52E31F78F1DB78086EF3AFEDBB55

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
6/19/1992 5:22:17 PM

OS version:
1.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.25

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:mQiGqaCZgrLLFFLvZVy9+MBTlPadSfXioRcpMXVJoC:mQiDQLxFbqUMBTlP0QjcpMXVJoC

Entry address:
0xA5F8

Entry point:
55, 8B, EC, 83, C4, C4, 53, 56, 57, 33, C0, 89, 45, F0, 89, 45, DC, E8, CE, 8A, FF, FF, E8, D5, 9C, FF, FF, E8, 64, 9F, FF, FF, E8, 07, A0, FF, FF, E8, A6, BF, FF, FF, E8, 11, E9, FF, FF, E8, 78, EA, FF, FF, 33, C0, 55, 68, C9, AC, 40, 00, 64, FF, 30, 64, 89, 20, 33, D2, 55, 68, 92, AC, 40, 00, 64, FF, 32, 64, 89, 22, A1, 14, C0, 40, 00, E8, 26, F5, FF, FF, E8, 11, F1, FF, FF, 80, 3D, 34, B2, 40, 00, 00, 74, 0C, E8, 23, F6, FF, FF, 33, C0, E8, C4, 97, FF, FF, 8D, 55, F0, 33, C0, E8, B6, C5, FF, FF, 8B, 55...
 
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Entropy:
7.4245

Packer / compiler:
Inno Setup v5.x - Installer Maker

Code size:
39.5 KB (40,448 bytes)

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