setup.exe

Small Island Development

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 Small Island Development has been detected as adware by 24 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) installer. According to AVG, this software downloads additional adware offers during setup. It is also typically executed from the user's temporary directory. The file has been seen being downloaded from gp387a.sazzip.com.
Publisher:
Small Island Development  (signed and verified)

MD5:
beeaebffdcb2c73c47628ab01f0655a7

SHA-1:
5453e038b7194ffbd2efc73a0ebeef907d96cb7e

SHA-256:
cfa716c584c664b5e47bf318c912aa4d27c96137bd98fe29afeb12d91c43fa6f

Scanner detections:
24 / 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:
12/27/2024 2:39:31 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Application.Generic.947691
6206876

Agnitum Outpost
PUA.PullUpdate
7.1.1

AhnLab V3 Security
PUP/Win32.TVWizard
2014.12.20

Avira AntiVirus
Adware/PullUpdate.AP
7.11.196.234

AVG
Potentially harmful program Downloader.CBD
2014.0.4235

Baidu Antivirus
Adware.MSIL.PullUpdate
4.0.3.141220

Bitdefender
Application.Generic.947691
1.0.20.1770

Dr.Web
Threat.Undefined
9.0.1.05190

Emsisoft Anti-Malware
Application.Generic.947691
9.0.0.4668

ESET NOD32
multiple threats
7.0.302.0

Fortinet FortiGate
Adware/PullUpdate
12/20/2014

F-Secure
Application.Generic.947691
11.2014-20-12_7

G Data
Application.Generic.947691
14.12.24

K7 AntiVirus
Adware
13.188.14395

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.TVWizard.A
v2014.12.20.02

McAfee
Trojan.Artemis!AF40A5A70580
16.8.708.2

MicroWorld eScan
Application.Generic.947691
15.0.0.1062

Norman
Application.Generic.947691
04.12.2014 14:30:06

Panda Antivirus
Adware/TVWizard
14.12.20.02

Qihoo 360 Security
Win32/Virus.Adware.d4e
1.0.0.1015

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Installer.SmallIslandDevelopment.F
14.12.20.13

Sophos
Generic PUA LC
4.98

Trend Micro House Call
Suspici.7B6A9C43
7.2.354

VIPRE Antivirus
Threat.4784449
35418

File size:
4.4 MB (4,637,896 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)

Language:
Language Neutral

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\temp\{random}.tmp\setup.exe

Digital Signature
Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
2/6/2014 12:00:00 AM

Valid to:
2/6/2015 11:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Small Island Development, OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O=Small Island Development, 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:
31A84249503E31798E91715167A83481

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
6/6/2009 10:41:48 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
98304:uZBlBlRySHWc5PboATG7EC1Pts5AYbT4GUdlPdyD3vXuBUXlnF:uZ3vBHRkL7FtskbPda3vXuBU1F

Entry address:
0x30CB

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, 38, 3F, 42, 00, E8, F1, 2B, 00, 00, A3, 84, 3E, 42, 00, 53, 8D, 44, 24, 34, 68, 60, 01, 00, 00, 50, 53, 68, 30, F4, 41, 00, FF, 15, 58, 71, 40, 00, 68, 54, 91, 40, 00, 68, 80, 36, 42, 00, E8, A4, 28, 00, 00, FF, 15, AC, 70, 40, 00, BF, 00, 90, 42, 00, 50, 57, E8, 92, 28, 00, 00...
 
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Entropy:
7.9826

Packer / compiler:
Nullsoft install system v2.x

Code size:
22.5 KB (23,040 bytes)

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

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