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:
aadbc8dab4e377099fc495094f08dbab

SHA-1:
bd15963972221f148807f91f433739e7edc86f5a

SHA-256:
74d747a4df9c0bf38a98c37168619376d1838176471e6c00c408415dfaa8a44c

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 2:48:48 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Application.Generic.997827
767

AhnLab V3 Security
PUP/Win32.TVWizard
2014.12.22

Avira AntiVirus
Adware/PullUpdate.AP
7.11.197.30

AVG
Smallis
2015.0.3245

Bitdefender
Application.Generic.997827
1.0.20.1820

Comodo Security
ApplicUnwnt
20438

Dr.Web
Adware.Yontoo.55
9.0.1.0364

ESET NOD32
MSIL/Adware.PullUpdate
8.10913

Fortinet FortiGate
Adware/PullUpdate
12/30/2014

F-Secure
Application.Generic.997827
11.2014-30-12_3

G Data
Application.Generic.997827
14.12.24

K7 AntiVirus
Adware
13.188.14410

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.TVWizard.A
v2014.12.30.10

McAfee
Artemis!AADBC8DAB4E3
5600.6901

MicroWorld eScan
Application.Generic.997827
15.0.0.1092

Panda Antivirus
Generic Malware
14.12.30.10

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Installer.SmallIslandDevelopment.F
14.12.30.10

Sophos
Generic PUA DH
4.98

Trend Micro House Call
Suspici.1CC0D1BF
7.2.364

Trend Micro
TROJ_GE.AF984AD1
10.465.30

VIPRE Antivirus
Injekt
35978

File size:
4.4 MB (4,638,080 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):
98304:1ZBdwVN8H5FyGyayOqZlSTm89jwv5HjcXNe/POe/NRBayVN8H5+q:1ZXwV2ka3qaNwBoKt/NRBayV2+q

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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