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setup.exe

Trusted Download LLC

This is the Softpulse installer which bundles applications with offers for additional 3rd party software, mostly unwanted adware, and may be installed with minimal consent. The application setup.exe by Trusted Download 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 Softpulse SoftwareBundler installer.
Publisher:
Trusted Download LLC  (signed and verified)

MD5:
dafb65f289314df610c9b2d7d3cb2ca5

SHA-1:
a9eba7229eb36dda437ec94e1328ae55631b6505

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.

Description:
This is also known as bundleware, or downloadware, which is an downloader designed to simply deliver ad-supported offers in the setup routine of an otherwise legitimate software.

Analysis date:
12/25/2024 12:07:08 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Softpulse (M)
17.3.14.18

File size:
496.1 KB (508,056 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
Softpulse SoftwareBundler

Common path:
C:\documents and settings\dina\documenti\downloads\setup.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Trusted Download LLC

Authority:
Symantec Corporation

Valid from:
12/16/2014 1:00:00 AM

Valid to:
12/17/2015 12:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=Trusted Download LLC, O=Trusted Download LLC, L=Wilmington, S=Delaware, C=US

Issuer:
CN=Symantec Class 3 SHA256 Code Signing CA, OU=Symantec Trust Network, O=Symantec Corporation, C=US

Serial number:
03A6A1DB7BF79D28B29DE1440C475F11

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
3/6/2015 12:55:25 PM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

Entry address:
0x1000

Entry point:
B8, 1C, 4D, 59, 00, 50, 64, FF, 35, 00, 00, 00, 00, 64, 89, 25, 00, 00, 00, 00, 33, C0, 89, 08, 50, 45, 43, 6F, 6D, 70, 61, 63, 74, 32, 00, 88, B6, 69, C4, 2B, 0C, FD, 10, 21, B8, BE, BF, 26, D1, D3, 70, 97, 25, CA, 1D, 4C, B0, C0, DF, 86, 2B, DD, 4A, 89, 5B, 1C, 4E, 6A, FE, ED, 74, B5, DC, 08, 5E, 98, B6, DB, DD, B1, B8, 4C, FC, 3E, 4A, 3A, AE, A7, B1, D3, 71, CB, AA, 16, 0E, 0D, DF, 28, 35, EA, B8, 18, 15, DF, 56, AA, FF, 8E, D7, 7C, AF, F9, F2, 31, 2F, 18, E1, FC, B2, 5A, B6, 52, EE, B3, AD, D0, 61, 20...
 
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Packer / compiler:
PECompact v2

Code size:
988 KB (1,011,712 bytes)

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