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setup.exe

Pinball Corporation.

This is a component for the Pinball ad-supported platform which may deliver advertisemenst to the web browser in the form of banner and text ads. The application setup.exe by Pinball has been detected as adware by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. This is a setup and installation application and has been known to bundle potentially unwanted software. It is also typically executed from an Internet Explorer cache folder. The file has been seen being downloaded from origin-ics.hotbar.com.
Publisher:
Pinball Corporation.  (signed and verified)

Description:
Installer

Version:
2.0.185.0

MD5:
84b602d838ebef4db5a8a4b8fef60f17

SHA-1:
3142de45919cc9003ce56bf789c6c650a3c2f3fd

SHA-256:
67a563d45ae58e3049987a7cf796a3fad39edbc749a2c2bd9114701c274a498d

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Adware

Note:
Our current pool of anti-malware engines have not currently detected this file, however based on our own detection heuristics we feel that this file is unwanted.

Analysis date:
12/27/2024 10:27:38 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Pinball.PinballCorporation.Installer (M)
15.12.28.7

File size:
185.6 KB (190,032 bytes)

Product version:
2.0.185.0

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:
Pinball Corporation.

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
5/18/2009 6:00:00 PM

Valid to:
5/19/2011 5:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Pinball Corporation., OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O=Pinball Corporation., L=Bellevue, S=Washington, C=US

Issuer:
CN=VeriSign Class 3 Code Signing 2004 CA, OU=Terms of use at https://www.verisign.com/rpa (c)04, OU=VeriSign Trust Network, O="VeriSign, Inc.", C=US

Serial number:
4FEAB55730A755A456FE6C18A4791C1A

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
11/9/2010 4:27:22 PM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
3072:HoiC41VwhoqWB+Ai104Af5Lprr+xxkGqdYzvtkSh8ZtajBk592M+MwVaPwWR:Ii51VwhoqDA95drGAd1ShgtaS592M+MF

Entry address:
0x6C630

Entry point:
60, BE, 00, 10, 44, 00, 8D, BE, 00, 00, FC, FF, 57, EB, 0B, 90, 8A, 06, 46, 88, 07, 47, 01, DB, 75, 07, 8B, 1E, 83, EE, FC, 11, DB, 72, ED, B8, 01, 00, 00, 00, 01, DB, 75, 07, 8B, 1E, 83, EE, FC, 11, DB, 11, C0, 01, DB, 73, 0B, 75, 28, 8B, 1E, 83, EE, FC, 11, DB, 72, 1F, 48, 01, DB, 75, 07, 8B, 1E, 83, EE, FC, 11, DB, 11, C0, EB, D4, 01, DB, 75, 07, 8B, 1E, 83, EE, FC, 11, DB, 11, C9, EB, 52, 31, C9, 83, E8, 03, 72, 11, C1, E0, 08, 8A, 06, 46, 83, F0, FF, 74, 75, D1, F8, 89, C5, EB, 0B, 01, DB, 75, 07, 8B...
 
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Entropy:
7.8872

Packer / compiler:
UPX v0.89.6 - v1.02 / v1.05 -v1.24

Code size:
176 KB (180,224 bytes)

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

http://origin-ics.hotbar.com/NCIC/.../Setup.exe

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