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AdGazelle

The application setup.exe by AdGazelle 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 NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) installer. The file has been seen being downloaded from newsoftwareupdates104.com.
Publisher:
AdGazelle  (signed and verified)

MD5:
020f674330855c2203e56a416b6dc1a8

SHA-1:
e4507f8a1cfc01f08683668714e3a93909014a55

SHA-256:
35a9443913d0d77fe7ce06a4da5384a5e6629239ce6520909f50c0d023d74cd7

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.

Analysis date:
11/25/2024 5:50:51 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.AdGazelle (M)
17.3.10.1

File size:
734.5 KB (752,128 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
AdGazelle

Authority:
COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:
2/3/2014 4:00:00 AM

Valid to:
2/3/2017 3:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=AdGazelle, O=AdGazelle, STREET=12902 Dorathea Ter, L=Poway, S=CA, PostalCode=92064, C=US

Issuer:
CN=COMODO Code Signing CA 2, O=COMODO CA Limited, L=Salford, S=Greater Manchester, C=GB

Serial number:
00AA27EA84F0CFE8B2E570A8C4955E2A00

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
7/27/2014 1:58:31 AM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
10.0

Entry address:
0x35B7

Entry point:
81, EC, D4, 02, 00, 00, 53, 55, 56, 57, 6A, 20, 33, ED, 5E, 89, 6C, 24, 18, C7, 44, 24, 10, E0, 84, 40, 00, 89, 6C, 24, 14, FF, 15, 30, 80, 40, 00, 68, 01, 80, 00, 00, FF, 15, B8, 80, 40, 00, 55, FF, 15, B4, 82, 40, 00, 6A, 08, A3, F8, 05, 47, 00, E8, 62, 27, 00, 00, 55, 68, B4, 02, 00, 00, A3, 00, 05, 47, 00, 8D, 44, 24, 38, 50, 55, 68, 24, 86, 40, 00, FF, 15, 84, 81, 40, 00, 68, 0C, 86, 40, 00, 68, 00, 85, 46, 00, E8, 32, 26, 00, 00, FF, 15, B4, 80, 40, 00, 50, BF, 00, 10, 4C, 00, 57, E8, 20, 26, 00, 00...
 
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Entropy:
7.8594

Packer / compiler:
Nullsoft install system v2.x

Code size:
26 KB (26,624 bytes)

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

http://newsoftwareupdates104.com/Download?lpm_id=9

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