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setup.exe

HD Player

Install Helper

This is the Vittalia Filewon 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 Install Helper 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 Vittalia DM installer. The file has been seen being downloaded from software.softwaare.net.
Publisher:
Install Helper Apr8  (signed by Install Helper)

Product:
HD Player

Version:
3.0.0.95

MD5:
cd66a779aed4d3636ff14b064235b900

SHA-1:
e7f86855a000e2c03de06cba33f92c893105701b

SHA-256:
719f17ad0d5da5debaadb0c95a8dd853b6e2a9e5b3add4017432292bf845e442

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Adware

Explanation:
Bundles additional software, mostly toolbars and other potentially unwanted applications using the Vittalia monitization installer.

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:
11/25/2024 11:54:16 PM UTC  (a few moments ago)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Vittalia (M)
16.8.5.6

File size:
1.1 MB (1,103,072 bytes)

Product version:
3.0.0.95

Copyright:
(c) Install Helper Apr8

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
Vittalia DM

Language:
Language Neutral

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Install Helper

Authority:
Symantec Corporation

Valid from:
4/7/2015 8:00:00 PM

Valid to:
4/7/2016 7:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Install Helper, O=Install Helper, L=Vancouver, S=British Columbia, C=CA

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

Serial number:
12BD7CFFA8EBCF8A714AC3D6E068484C

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
1/30/2013 9:21:56 AM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.25

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:IxG9TzdtUn1lqh4uGXknkyCUnH9hmi1KVCcWVA4ZizyqaZ:tVd+S4UVmj4vZ

Entry address:
0x113BC

Entry point:
55, 8B, EC, 83, C4, A4, 53, 56, 57, 33, C0, 89, 45, C4, 89, 45, C0, 89, 45, A4, 89, 45, D0, 89, 45, C8, 89, 45, CC, 89, 45, D4, 89, 45, D8, 89, 45, EC, B8, 2C, 00, 41, 00, E8, E8, 51, FF, FF, 33, C0, 55, 68, 9E, 1A, 41, 00, 64, FF, 30, 64, 89, 20, 33, D2, 55, 68, 5A, 1A, 41, 00, 64, FF, 32, 64, 89, 22, A1, 48, 5B, 41, 00, E8, 16, D8, FF, FF, E8, 65, D3, FF, FF, 80, 3D, DC, 2A, 41, 00, 00, 74, 0C, E8, 2B, D9, FF, FF, 33, C0, E8, 80, 32, FF, FF, 8D, 55, EC, 33, C0, E8, E2, A3, FF, FF, 8B, 55, EC, B8, 50, 86...
 
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Entropy:
6.9517

Developed / compiled with:
Microsoft Visual C++

Code size:
65.5 KB (67,038 bytes)

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

http://software.softwaare.net/d/click/.../?uid=15241074845049593&sid=sid&filename=Setup

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