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 21 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:
724391a60f5d04f48839cacd44715d48

SHA-1:
8c7e32e0e37f036814494af16a9ce8e3f28de6e9

SHA-256:
1b48b75f71d2eca8dcf95d5a80280f6f02e71fa5b747f2f6b326daddb96542bb

Scanner detections:
21 / 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 2:21:48 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Application.Generic.1013534
765

Avira AntiVirus
Adware/PullUpdate.AP
7.11.198.40

AVG
Smallis
2015.0.3243

Baidu Antivirus
Adware.MSIL.PullUpdate
4.0.3.141231

Bitdefender
Application.Generic.1013534
1.0.20.1825

Dr.Web
Adware.Yontoo.55
9.0.1.0365

ESET NOD32
MSIL/Adware.PullUpdate
8.10931

Fortinet FortiGate
Adware/PullUpdate
12/31/2014

F-Secure
Application.Generic.1013534
11.2014-31-12_4

G Data
Application.Generic.1013534
14.12.24

IKARUS anti.virus
AdWare.Agent
t3scan.1.8.5.0

K7 AntiVirus
Adware
13.188.14468

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.MovieWizard.A
v2014.12.31.01

McAfee
Artemis!724391A60F5D
5600.6899

MicroWorld eScan
Application.Generic.1013534
15.0.0.1095

Panda Antivirus
Adware/TVWizard
14.12.31.01

Qihoo 360 Security
Win32/Virus.Adware.d4e
1.0.0.1015

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Installer.SmallIslandDevelopment.F
14.12.31.13

Sophos
Generic PUA KD
4.98

Trend Micro House Call
Suspicious_GEN.F47V1225
7.2.365

VIPRE Antivirus
Injekt
36108

File size:
4.3 MB (4,554,848 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 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:FmUNxtz+J+rVC+DJT57UD1nCruHKTI52wuAYVZKYiqTEZAqNxtz+J+r/:kUNxda+VdYkrFkYjyBrSqNxdh

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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