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Desktop Recipe

Exciting Technology

The application setup.exe by Exciting Technology has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 17 anti-malware scanners. This is a self-extracting archive and installer and has been known to bundle potentially unwanted software. The file has been seen being downloaded from heroic.vanosystem.com.
Publisher:
Exciting Technology  (signed and verified)

Product:
Desktop Recipe

Version:
3.0.85.2

MD5:
f3067dbecafd2dd69a389322d23f9be1

SHA-1:
2e125b713e4b455710cddfc75b011d931260f7d3

SHA-256:
970c06e0907a7494345ec51e3e5df59b715ac901a12de47d53acc744a1633f23

Scanner detections:
17 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Analysis date:
4/22/2025 12:14:09 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Gen:Variant.Adware.Kazy.722038
488

Avira AntiVirus
ADWARE/PullUpdate.Gen7
8.3.2.2

Arcabit
Trojan.Adware.Kazy.DB0476
1.0.0.568

AVG
Generic
2016.0.2966

Bitdefender
Gen:Variant.Adware.Kazy.722038
1.0.20.1385

Emsisoft Anti-Malware
Gen:Variant.Adware.Kazy.722038
8.15.10.04.07

ESET NOD32
MSIL/Adware.PullUpdate.J.gen (variant)
9.12354

F-Secure
Gen:Variant.Adware.Kazy
11.2015-04-10_1

G Data
Gen:Variant.Adware.Kazy.722038
15.10.25

IKARUS anti.virus
Trojan.Win32.SelfDel
t3scan.1.9.5.0

K7 AntiVirus
Adware
13.210.17418

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.PullUpdate
v2015.10.04.07

MicroWorld eScan
Gen:Variant.Adware.Kazy.722038
16.0.0.831

Reason Heuristics
Threat.Win.Reputation.IMP
15.10.4.19

Rising Antivirus
PE:Malware.RDM.09!5.F[F1]
23.00.65.151002

Vba32 AntiVirus
Trojan.SelfDel
3.12.26.4

Zillya! Antivirus
Adware.PullUpdate.Win32.31366
2.0.0.2427

File size:
5.1 MB (5,364,200 bytes)

Product version:
3.0.85.2

Copyright:
Copyright (C) 2015 Exciting Technology

Original file name:
setup.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\microsoft\windows\temporary internet files\content.ie5\{random}\setup.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Exciting Technology

Authority:
Symantec Corporation

Valid from:
1/21/2015 4:00:00 PM

Valid to:
1/22/2016 3:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Exciting Technology, O=Exciting Technology, L=St. Michael, S=St. Michael, C=BB

Issuer:
CN=Symantec Class 3 SHA256 Code Signing CA, OU=Symantec Trust Network, O=Symantec Corporation, C=US

Serial number:
78090672DF6104656959D799BD62B471

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
10/3/2015 10:29:09 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
11.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
98304:h2V1IOmQpLa1TlEjTrYx8zF9jbdq+ijrUmjvgsJM2XNHeDfKFRRRRVQIRDRR5qgk:hopLiTGzYxAUJFvZNeDfKFRRRRVQIRD4

Entry address:
0x6EA7

Entry point:
E8, CF, 7D, 00, 00, E9, 00, 00, 00, 00, 6A, 14, 68, F0, 35, 42, 00, E8, D3, 55, 00, 00, E8, 54, 2A, 00, 00, 0F, B7, F0, 6A, 02, E8, 62, 7D, 00, 00, 59, B8, 4D, 5A, 00, 00, 66, 39, 05, 00, 00, 40, 00, 74, 04, 33, DB, EB, 33, A1, 3C, 00, 40, 00, 81, B8, 00, 00, 40, 00, 50, 45, 00, 00, 75, EB, B9, 0B, 01, 00, 00, 66, 39, 88, 18, 00, 40, 00, 75, DD, 33, DB, 83, B8, 74, 00, 40, 00, 0E, 76, 09, 39, 98, E8, 00, 40, 00, 0F, 95, C3, 89, 5D, E4, E8, 74, 53, 00, 00, 85, C0, 75, 08, 6A, 1C, E8, DC, 00, 00, 00, 59, E8...
 
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Entropy:
7.8408  (probably packed)

Code size:
106.5 KB (109,056 bytes)

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

http://heroic.vanosystem.com/dtr/.../Setup.exe

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