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setup.exe

HD Player

Installer Setup

This is part of the Air Installer, a download manager 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 Installer Setup has been detected as adware by 13 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the AirInstaller Download Manager installer. According to AVG, this software downloads additional adware offers during setup. The file has been seen being downloaded from www.beautifuldo.com.
Publisher:
Installer Setup  (signed and verified)

Product:
HD Player

Version:
3.0.0.92

MD5:
b9d171d546d7afc4cd26b5eda2d8138a

SHA-1:
feea296d2b2be6848cacb21e21fb382e02a117d2

SHA-256:
72b23b1cf7d02872d0654ad5edcedc6b62c081f574bfa0c0b1c2f0cb567d091f

Scanner detections:
13 / 68

Status:
Adware

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

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:
11/24/2024 10:51:15 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

AhnLab V3 Security
PUP/Win32.InstallCore
2015.04.14

avast!
PUP-gen [PUP]
2014.9-150506

AVG
Potentially harmful program Downloader.EQH
2014.0.4311

Bkav FE
W32.HfsAdware
1.3.0.6379

Dr.Web
Adware.Downware.10709
9.0.1.05190

ESET NOD32
Win32/DownloadAssistant.A potentially unwanted application
7.0.302.0

F-Secure
Gen:Variant.Adware.Strictor
11.2015-06-05_4

IKARUS anti.virus
PUA.DownloadAssistant
t3scan.1.8.9.0

K7 AntiVirus
Unwanted-Program
13.203.15755

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.Bundle
v2015.05.06.12

NANO AntiVirus
Trojan.Win32.Vittalia.dqfrig
0.30.10.952

Reason Heuristics
Threat.Air Software.Bundler
15.5.5.20

Vba32 AntiVirus
suspected of Malware-Cryptor.FSP.gen
3.12.26.3

File size:
1.1 MB (1,102,056 bytes)

Product version:
3.0.0.92

Copyright:
(c) Installer Setup

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
AirInstaller Download Manager

Language:
Language Neutral

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Installer Setup

Authority:
Symantec Corporation

Valid from:
3/23/2015 5:00:00 PM

Valid to:
3/23/2016 4:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Installer Setup, O=Installer Setup, 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:
188C75106A329415713A40BD52985D5C

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
1/30/2013 6:21:56 AM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.25

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:fxGWuf7cxIHq4vNVfq0QcCoV17H16ji+7Jbp73j7DiC2:olYxIXvNVfnQhor7H16RJbpD12

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:
6.9428

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://www.beautifuldo.com/f/us/.../index.php?sid=584&dv1=ad577-us&kw1=ad577-us-lm&uuid=e4ea61eb-c3a9-4ade-661e-1e09c9c3cf48&dv3=e4ea61eb-c3a9-4ade-661e-1e09c9c3cf48

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