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setup.exe

Microsoft Security Essentials

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 aback-structurec37c4d.com.
Publisher:
Install Helper  (signed and verified)

Product:
Microsoft Security Essentials

Version:
3.0.0.76

MD5:
3353cebbc51df4be5defdea9471d0d63

SHA-1:
f585e7aeb3583c2ea68133acfdb2308232f6ea12

SHA-256:
753b3c99f09e09e90d322bdabf1c6aeb8d05ccc340a95acb16fb19c9c9c05d6a

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:
11/14/2024 8:56:12 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Vittalia.InstallH.Installer (M)
16.4.25.19

File size:
860.7 KB (881,352 bytes)

Product version:
3.0.0.76

Copyright:
(c) Install Helper

Original file name:
setup.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
Vittalia DM

Language:
English (United States)

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Install Helper

Authority:
Symantec Corporation

Valid from:
1/29/2015 10:00:00 AM

Valid to:
1/30/2016 9:59:59 AM

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:
7CC3624C218D0B5B8DB87F5E4E3521B0

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
2/24/2015 6:55:35 AM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
10.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:4+KXmW+URCVtA1RYnS85mcu64+Bd/HiyQbeTAufPTfM:5URv1RYnpru64+HaNgDfM

Entry address:
0x1282

Entry point:
55, 8B, EC, 83, EC, 4C, 53, 56, 57, BE, 00, 00, 80, 07, 33, DB, 56, 53, FF, 15, 10, 80, 47, 00, 85, C0, 74, 6B, 8B, D6, 8B, C8, 88, 19, 41, 4A, 75, FA, 50, FF, 15, 1C, 80, 47, 00, 89, 5D, FC, 8B, C3, 39, 75, FC, 73, 50, 40, FF, 45, FC, 39, 75, FC, 72, F7, 3B, C6, 75, 43, 6A, F9, 5B, C7, 45, F0, 96, 9F, 9F, 9F, 33, D2, 66, C7, 45, F4, 90, 95, C6, 45, F6, 8D, 88, 5D, F7, 8A, 4C, 15, F0, 8A, C1, 0A, CB, 22, C3, F6, D0, 22, C1, 88, 44, 15, F0, 42, 83, FA, 08, 72, E8, 8B, 3D, 0C, 80, 47, 00, 8D, 45, F0, 50, FF...
 
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Entropy:
7.0100

Developed / compiled with:
Microsoft Visual C++

Code size:
475.5 KB (486,912 bytes)

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

http://aback-structurec37c4d.com/track/install?gluid=gyaEYiQh4MIGp2G7RjjTs4RxsKsYgBkVQNHuKI5mVKI0uQjm8cOlE9nj6fYv2d U86G1AyFw9QrISg xuZPRQGs12qrOQxpn2TE7TAcqVOg70Vg1BA0c 7ehGasqTRam3 0GSe5k4gZTZeCJAAaxKx6qMjzln/z6eyUmK 1i7EidSIM5liZTqSTOnOyPbYB4/dYYJMPSxK8MtqTwgJgDLkgfLNFzXtOobaao1Bc3FXYPlYwRZBqewJOze9EXk72aScWfYlUUevTMmhc3Azimtysi1jXqVpPx3aQHFG spK7noPmTDNNGTyLQYxhorkQI yLyzks1RJbQICusui5yqEJAfbuBmhL190AF0YPb4bMHHiXOdJ8HkJF7DtDQ6qS1N4j KsmDHTzTf/0Yq36Fedvv6YEjlJKBRjJHGlMvq0H397QU6cfb9j/rk9aNu6K8Lw3NqEY9sQclvhBEn8fZukNR DEuZjvqCGDpWDh1VFhyERITke9WqvMbjW8n87vDcpz6Td0E68MRrtdqeX/ZVZ1AXhQk5U9aybVhnPbHVGGWzM2a1 cgSnw3aDZ5GLBq&_sd=1&alc=1&dl=1&dlink=http://installationproxy361.com/o/.../Setup.exe

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