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setupa.exe

White Sea Media

The application setupa.exe by White Sea Media has been detected as adware by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. This is a setup program which is used to install the application. It is also typically executed from an Internet Explorer cache folder. The file has been seen being downloaded from shoppingsuggestion.com.
Publisher:
White Sea Media  (signed and verified)

MD5:
caf242c51465a9f39e6a265109e477c1

SHA-1:
5452d655beed62a98198746d83ee32c8f2184191

SHA-256:
3987e6dbcf04a6b1eae68e63763931bc75444e13a790febfd1bff20d15f13d5d

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:
11/5/2024 11:28:49 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.WhiteSeaMedia.Installer (M)
16.1.27.19

File size:
821.7 KB (841,440 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\microsoft\windows\temporary internet files\content.ie5\{random}\setupa.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
White Sea Media

Authority:
COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:
7/7/2013 9:00:00 PM

Valid to:
7/8/2014 8:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=White Sea Media, O=White Sea Media, STREET=4142 Mariner Blvd, L=Spring Hill, S=FL, PostalCode=34609, C=US

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

Serial number:
1FB235ACA7565BA27ADC702B2BD05C7F

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
10/24/2013 1:03:14 AM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
10.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:QKvB7zcArEU1YvYjjMgsFoV4oitijmHWXHAje0VO4ynbHMkP28QMgVcfNDP15luw:QKBLgHpe+t0mHW8t3qePqfND95EJdI

Entry address:
0x1CA000

Entry point:
83, EC, 04, 50, 53, E8, 01, 00, 00, 00, CC, 58, 89, C3, 40, 2D, 00, 50, 0C, 00, 2D, 7F, CF, 09, 10, 05, 74, CF, 09, 10, 80, 3B, CC, 75, 19, C6, 03, 00, BB, 00, 10, 00, 00, 68, E1, 20, 57, 67, 68, 72, 58, 72, 6E, 53, 50, E8, 0A, 00, 00, 00, 83, C0, 00, 89, 44, 24, 08, 5B, 58, C3, 55, 89, E5, 50, 53, 51, 56, 8B, 75, 08, 8B, 4D, 0C, C1, E9, 02, 8B, 45, 10, 8B, 5D, 14, 85, C9, 74, 0A, 31, 06, 01, 1E, 83, C6, 04, 49, EB, F2, 5E, 59, 5B, 58, C9, C2, 10, 00, 3A, E4, 7E, 6B, 31, C3, 0A, FD, 86, 47, 4B, BD, B6, E3...
 
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Code size:
28.5 KB (29,184 bytes)

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

http://shoppingsuggestion.com/.../setupa.exe

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