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setup.exe

Premium Installer

This adware bundler is distributed through Adknowledge's advertising supported software managers. The application setup.exe by Premium Installer 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 Adknowledge Fusion installer. The file has been seen being downloaded from download.notepaddownload.info.

File name:

setup.exe

Publisher:

InstallManager (signed by Premium Installer)

Description:

InstallManager

Version:

2, 1, 0, 0

MD5:

3b6976d49889a20d86c6929fce59dcf9

SHA-1:

c91d342302e7cac65d05b66c3a412fcc4bbd5896

SHA-256:

83231b2e1044bfae921940bc8d6cec2b0c3e4f221f3899ca34914194d9fafe31

Scanner detections:

1 / 68

Status:

Adware

Explanation:

This setup/installer bundles various adware components.

Description:

This 'download manager' is also considered bundleware, a utility designed to download software (possibly legitimate or opensource) and bundle it with a number of optional offers including ad-supported utilities, toolbars, shopping comparison tools and browser extensions.

Analysis date:

12/28/2024 9:59:05 AM UTC (today)

Scan engine

Detection

Engine version

Reason Heuristics

PUP.Adknowledge (M)

16.7.26.7

File size:

1 MB (1,069,208 bytes)

Product version:

2, 1, 0, 0

File type:

Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:

Adknowledge Fusion

Language:

English (United States)

Common path:

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

Digital Signature

Signed by:

Premium Installer

Authority:

VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:

7/12/2013 8:00:00 PM

Valid to:

8/2/2014 7:59:59 PM

Subject:

CN=Premium Installer, OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O=Premium Installer, L=Wilmington, S=Delaware, C=US

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:

35BB74B905C01CE61DA131BA49337F33

File PE Metadata

Compilation timestamp:

8/28/2013 12:32:22 PM

OS version:

5.0

OS bitness:

Win32

Subsystem:

Windows GUI

Linker version:

9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):

24576:TqqwKO2JhwtnKqRnrgcCzCUPfJsb3hNmXJ16zLcuqYzq:u7KfrwtnKEnrgrzCU3Jsb3hEXv6/qx

Entry address:

0x3BFC

Entry point:

E8, 7B, 2F, 00, 00, E9, 78, FE, FF, FF, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 83, EC, 20, 8B, 45, 08, 56, 57, 6A, 08, 59, BE, 54, B2, 41, 00, 8D, 7D, E0, F3, A5, 89, 45, F8, 8B, 45, 0C, 5F, 89, 45, FC, 5E, 85, C0, 74, 0C, F6, 00, 08, 74, 07, C7, 45, F4, 00, 40, 99, 01, 8D, 45, F4, 50, FF, 75, F0, FF, 75, E4, FF, 75, E0, FF, 15, 44, B0, 41, 00, C9, C2, 08, 00, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 51, 53, 8B, 45, 0C, 83, C0, 0C, 89, 45, FC, 64, 8B, 1D, 00, 00, 00, 00, 8B, 03, 64, A3, 00, 00, 00, 00, 8B, 45, 08, 8B, 5D, 0C, 8B, 6D, FC, 8B, 63... 
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Entropy:

6.9121

Code size:

103.5 KB (105,984 bytes)

The file setup.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

http://download.notepaddownload.info/dwload.php?z=6

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