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Fileangels

This adware bundler is distributed through Adknowledge's advertising supported software managers. The application setup.exe, “Premium Installer ” by Fileangels has been detected as adware by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. The program is a setup application that uses the Adknowledge Fusion installer. The file has been seen being downloaded from a.cloudfiftyfive.com.
Publisher:
Premium Installer   (signed by Fileangels)

Product:
Premium Installer

Description:
Premium Installer

Version:
4.0.0.1

MD5:
3855b5ce901da82e2dfeae2e6330d9e9

SHA-1:
39b87e9dd5350e102dca100561f68762e593821e

SHA-256:
22c7f595c1713e89a5e595ed4f494563503f9a34aeff7707a3c81877bfa8f104

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Adware

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

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:
11/25/2024 9:55:01 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Adknowledge.Fileange.Bundler (M)
16.6.17.7

File size:
69.9 KB (71,536 bytes)

Product version:
4.0.0.1

Copyright:
Copyright (C) Premium Installer

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
Adknowledge Fusion

Language:
English (United States)

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Fileangels

Authority:
COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:
7/13/2014 8:00:00 PM

Valid to:
7/14/2015 7:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Fileangels, O=Fileangels, 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:
1D54F646CB5A85211464AF0FDAB3D591

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
10/17/2014 3:58:34 PM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
768:9bQ7dVnlR5zzGEYM+rQ/5TcO6zPZU9pAdQjBDwOo8D:9bQx3GNvr9O6zPEAdQaED

Entry address:
0x449B

Entry point:
E8, 48, 05, 00, 00, E9, 36, FD, FF, FF, CC, FF, 25, 20, 61, 40, 00, FF, 25, 24, 61, 40, 00, CC, CC, 68, 0D, 45, 40, 00, 64, FF, 35, 00, 00, 00, 00, 8B, 44, 24, 10, 89, 6C, 24, 10, 8D, 6C, 24, 10, 2B, E0, 53, 56, 57, A1, 1C, B0, 40, 00, 31, 45, FC, 33, C5, 50, 89, 65, E8, FF, 75, F8, 8B, 45, FC, C7, 45, FC, FE, FF, FF, FF, 89, 45, F8, 8D, 45, F0, 64, A3, 00, 00, 00, 00, C3, 8B, 4D, F0, 64, 89, 0D, 00, 00, 00, 00, 59, 5F, 5F, 5E, 5B, 8B, E5, 5D, 51, C3, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, FF, 75, 14, FF, 75, 10, FF, 75, 0C...
 
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Entropy:
5.6876

Code size:
16.5 KB (16,896 bytes)

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

http://a.cloudfiftyfive.com/NCIC/20130302142253494E434647493031_9b17331e-1a47-49b3-87b9-b850bead36e1/.../Setup.exe

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