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setupnow.exe

Your Updater

Hudson Exchange Group, LLC

The application setupnow.exe by Hudson Exchange Group has been detected as a potentially unwanted program 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 softwareservices.azurewebsites.net and multiple other hosts.

File name:

setupnow.exe

Publisher:

Hudson Exchange Group, LLC (signed and verified)

Product:

Your Updater

Version:

2.2.0.0

MD5:

a1cd8d608795f0617a2f95c29a5ea0ac

SHA-1:

fa75399b30f2d2d62d8a649c16d27ee35660dea8

SHA-256:

b2785c408ff53ebd21f7780d6cb5141b3cc8fe5c680f9f7109bc40581f5048f4

Scanner detections:

1 / 68

Status:

Potentially unwanted

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:

12/25/2024 5:15:46 PM UTC (today)

Scan engine

Detection

Engine version

Reason Heuristics

PUP.HudsonExchangeGroup.Installer (M)

16.1.18.4

File size:

238.4 KB (244,088 bytes)

File type:

Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:

NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)

Language:

Language Neutral

Common path:

C:\users\{user}\downloads\setupnow.exe

Digital Signature

Signed by:

Hudson Exchange Group, LLC

Authority:

Symantec Corporation

Valid from:

2/10/2015 7:00:00 PM

Valid to:

10/31/2016 7:59:59 PM

Subject:

CN="Hudson Exchange Group, LLC", O="Hudson Exchange Group, LLC", L=Woodcliff Lake, S=New Jersey, C=US

Issuer:

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

Serial number:

5B78F4208F4D587B6FA9A6AF8EC8FD12

File PE Metadata

Compilation timestamp:

12/27/2015 12:38:52 AM

OS version:

4.0

OS bitness:

Win32

Subsystem:

Windows GUI

Linker version:

6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):

3072:SEhKzShSycu9R5TYP/ooCVfQ6JHrNDMeU66y9OYWtOLo4QEIcxnm6gqVZwj8aXH:SBnQ9PxoCu6/MhqkYsipbtYwCoaX

Entry address:

0x324F

Entry point:

81, EC, 80, 01, 00, 00, 53, 55, 56, 57, 33, DB, 68, 01, 80, 00, 00, 89, 5C, 24, 1C, C7, 44, 24, 14, 30, 91, 40, 00, 33, F6, C6, 44, 24, 18, 20, FF, 15, B8, 70, 40, 00, FF, 15, B4, 70, 40, 00, 66, 3D, 06, 00, 74, 11, 53, E8, FC, 2D, 00, 00, 3B, C3, 74, 07, 68, 00, 0C, 00, 00, FF, D0, 68, E0, 91, 40, 00, E8, 7D, 2D, 00, 00, 68, D8, 91, 40, 00, E8, 73, 2D, 00, 00, 68, CC, 91, 40, 00, E8, 69, 2D, 00, 00, 6A, 0D, E8, CC, 2D, 00, 00, 6A, 0B, E8, C5, 2D, 00, 00, A3, 84, 3F, 42, 00, FF, 15, 34, 70, 40, 00, 53, FF... 
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Entropy:

7.6025

Packer / compiler:

Nullsoft install system v2.x

Code size:

23.5 KB (24,064 bytes)

The file setupnow.exe has been seen being distributed by the following 25 URLs.

https://softwareservices.azurewebsites.net/setup.php

https://windowssoftwaresite.com/campaign/.../rdr.php

http://windowssoftwaresite.com/campaign/.../rdr.php

https://windowssoftwaresite.com/campaign/.../rdr.php

https://opendownloadmanager.com/ssetup.php

https://windowssoftwaresite.com/campaign/.../rdr.php

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