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setup.exe

Savings Apps

This is the installer application for a 50onRed advertising supported software package (displays ads in the browser and may hijack the home and search pages of the web browser). The application setup.exe by Savings Apps 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 NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) installer. The file has been seen being downloaded from download.theappsrvr.com.
Publisher:
Savings Apps  (signed and verified)

MD5:
52a5a578c70ff60f8686669c2c4b90cf

SHA-1:
5dc78e5967c35972eee00677b84cd0a9e0a57ae7

SHA-256:
b0dae381819f18abb9103f1076d97958315bc7afd4184216bd2fe90acebbeb31

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:
11/24/2024 10:40:46 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.50OnRed.SavingsA.Installer (M)
16.6.20.10

File size:
167.9 KB (171,928 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Savings Apps

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
10/17/2012 8:00:00 PM

Valid to:
10/18/2013 7:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Savings Apps, OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O=Savings Apps, L=New Castle, S=Delaware, C=US

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:
309F1A00318C3937D71BEA69C92A0738

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
12/5/2009 5:50:52 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
3072:xgXdZt9P6D3XJl8rB2MBx2fp4AEJ4Yt2NO32YV6PGpt4fq0Z:xe34D8rB2MBk+LZoOmOwG/4fF

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:
7.5085

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.

http://download.theappsrvr.com/?nm=01sgavb2krx7at&s=Chrome&SessionToken=6b7560b6594e49d9b7ba654c385d4c03

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