setup.exe

Interesting Solutions

The software will display additional offers (such as adware) during installation including a browser toolbar/extension as well as advertising injection software (part of the Injekt brand). The application setup.exe by Interesting Solutions has been detected as adware by 19 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) installer. The file has been seen being downloaded from cdn.airdlr1.com.
Publisher:
Interesting Solutions  (signed and verified)

MD5:
12c23a2548871e7dd2dadd40c3374fff

SHA-1:
2d89b452236e36455c82098728cef5f58fd65e19

SHA-256:
63ce5cccfc8d62fbab071090dfe5a50f56ec9c466b54739a7386d5c5c3b67a98

Scanner detections:
19 / 68

Status:
Adware

Explanation:
Injects display ads (banner ads), in-text ads, interstitial ads, or other types of ads in the web browser as well as alters the browsers settings (home page, search, DNS, and security protocols).

Analysis date:
1/24/2025 10:24:01 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Gen:Variant.Adware.Jatif.98
5710306

Avira AntiVirus
ADWARE/Adware.Gen7
7.11.205.68

AVG
Interesting
2016.0.2984

Baidu Antivirus
Adware.MSIL.PullUpdate
4.0.3.15916

Bkav FE
W32.HfsAdware
1.3.0.6379

Comodo Security
ApplicUnwnt
20854

Dr.Web
Adware.Yontoo.68
9.0.1.05190

Emsisoft Anti-Malware
Gen:Variant.Adware.Jatif.98
10.0.0.5366

ESET NOD32
MSIL/Adware.PullUpdate.F application
7.0.302.0

Fortinet FortiGate
Adware/PullUpdate
9/16/2015

F-Secure
Adware.Linkury.BD
5.14.151

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.WebGuard.A
v2015.09.16.08

McAfee
Artemis!12C23A254887
5600.6640

Norman
Gen:Variant.Adware.Jatif.98
03.12.2014 13:20:04

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Installer.InterestingSolutions.F
15.1.14.8

Sophos
Generic PUA GA
4.98

Trend Micro House Call
Suspicious_GEN.F47V0114
7.2.259

VIPRE Antivirus
Threat.4872425
43798

File size:
4.5 MB (4,742,048 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)

Language:
Language Neutral

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\microsoft\windows\inetcache\content.ie5\ha0uir7d\setup.exe

Digital Signature
Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
4/1/2014 8:00:00 PM

Valid to:
4/2/2015 7:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Interesting Solutions, OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O=Interesting Solutions, L=St. James, S=St. James, C=BB

Issuer:
CN=VeriSign Class 3 Code Signing 2010 CA, OU=Terms of use at https://www.verisign.com/rpa (c)10, OU=VeriSign Trust Network, O="VeriSign, Inc.", C=US

Serial number:
7AA52A387DFF197F28163BDDC97B61EA

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
6/6/2009 5:41:59 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
98304:XAjvEtMYtoHXNWlQ1kIXyF0BeReXTf/9izSP+AfwB2EsGhgNMxtI:XGMtMQoHXNW4i4L9i8JE3gNMxq

Entry address:
0x30FA

Entry point:
81, EC, 80, 01, 00, 00, 53, 55, 56, 33, DB, 57, 89, 5C, 24, 18, C7, 44, 24, 10, 60, 91, 40, 00, 33, F6, C6, 44, 24, 14, 20, FF, 15, 30, 70, 40, 00, 68, 01, 80, 00, 00, FF, 15, B0, 70, 40, 00, 53, FF, 15, 7C, 72, 40, 00, 6A, 08, A3, 18, EC, 42, 00, E8, F1, 2B, 00, 00, A3, 64, EB, 42, 00, 53, 8D, 44, 24, 34, 68, 60, 01, 00, 00, 50, 53, 68, 98, 8F, 42, 00, FF, 15, 58, 71, 40, 00, 68, 54, 91, 40, 00, 68, 60, E3, 42, 00, E8, A4, 28, 00, 00, FF, 15, AC, 70, 40, 00, BF, 00, 40, 43, 00, 50, 57, E8, 92, 28, 00, 00...
 
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Entropy:
7.9827

Packer / compiler:
Nullsoft install system v2.x

Code size:
23.5 KB (24,064 bytes)

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

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