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setup.exe

Surf Island Solutions

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 Surf Island Solutions has been detected as adware by 10 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) installer. The file has been seen being downloaded from lp.freevideoconverterapp.com.
Publisher:
Surf Island Solutions  (signed and verified)

MD5:
50c69c7ed74735c346b28f4b46ffb3a0

SHA-1:
6ef99ed1d1323e5f5a4d9ad2b8ca587e64c81287

SHA-256:
8d4942f4da3c65207048464096b2d995e03eb65d2b4379939f4f18d7cbd63dc3

Scanner detections:
10 / 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:
1/13/2025 7:49:33 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Avira AntiVirus
ADWARE/Adware.Gen7
7.11.203.144

Comodo Security
ApplicUnwnt
20783

ESET NOD32
MSIL/Adware.PullUpdate.J.gen (variant)
9.11046

Fortinet FortiGate
Adware/PullUpdate
1/31/2015

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.VideoConverter.A
v2015.01.31.01

McAfee
Artemis!50C69C7ED747
5600.6869

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Installer.Injekt
15.1.31.1

Sophos
Generic PUA AL
4.98

Trend Micro House Call
Suspicious_GEN.F47V0109
7.2.31

VIPRE Antivirus
Trojan.Win32.Generic
36828

File size:
4.5 MB (4,728,832 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)

Language:
Language Neutral

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Surf Island Solutions

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
3/2/2014 4:00:00 PM

Valid to:
3/3/2015 3:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Surf Island Solutions, OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O=Surf Island Solutions, 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:
6FB79DDB9BE296B956A7181848AE7E71

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
6/6/2009 2:41:59 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
98304:k9iiJhoMzMtaKTzJnc4xmtzk20GWHM96/v+u6IV/p69NMxt/:k9ZoMzHuzRc4xmZkTHUKv+uXNk9NMxF

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:
7.9847

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://lp.freevideoconverterapp.com/start/clkg/http/d.freevideoconverterapp.com/VideoConverter/208101/.../Setup.exe

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