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 19 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) installer. 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:
e7ae456eb3e82319ca6712c00c53bd22

SHA-1:
7337896ac0092584a9ffd6ebbed0155f756d8123

SHA-256:
cbbe13b2acbb3743b9788e0a1f9e429edc7302c7ca89acc3d547a5401b4b9f42

Scanner detections:
19 / 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:
1/14/2025 2:01:11 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Application.Generic.951531
787

Avira AntiVirus
Adware/PullUpdate.AP
7.11.193.163

AVG
Smallis
2015.0.3265

Baidu Antivirus
Adware.MSIL.PullUpdate
4.0.3.14129

Bitdefender
Application.Generic.951531
1.0.20.1715

ESET NOD32
MSIL/Adware.PullUpdate
8.10843

Fortinet FortiGate
Adware/PullUpdate
12/9/2014

F-Secure
Application.Generic.951531
11.2014-09-12_3

G Data
Application.Generic.951531
14.12.24

K7 AntiVirus
Adware
13.186.14270

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.MovieWizard.A
v2014.12.09.01

McAfee
Artemis!E7AE456EB3E8
5600.6921

MicroWorld eScan
Application.Generic.951531
15.0.0.1029

Panda Antivirus
Adware/TVWizard
14.12.09.01

Qihoo 360 Security
Win32/Virus.Adware.d4e
1.0.0.1015

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Installer.SmallIslandDevelopment.F
14.12.9.13

Sophos
Generic PUA OI
4.98

Trend Micro House Call
Suspici.9564FD6F
7.2.343

VIPRE Antivirus
Injekt
35532

File size:
4.3 MB (4,548,488 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)

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

Digital Signature
Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
2/6/2014 1:00:00 AM

Valid to:
2/7/2015 12:59:59 AM

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 11:41:48 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
98304:7ARqvKf6Q9tFpTz59w1Hgm+FnbSdJIywCxq5DWRMdQ1xu1bEA9bqvKf6Q92o:kRoKfBhx5G1R+F+jId5Wl1c1R9boKfBp

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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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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