skil 2230 user guide provided through pdfretriever.com.exe

RapidInstaller

SIEN Internet Products Ltd

This is the SIEN AppScion Installer which bundles applications with offers for additional 3rd party software, mostly unwanted adware, and may be installed with minimal consent. The application skil 2230 user guide provided through pdfretriever.com.exe by SIEN Internet Products 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 SIEN SuperInstall installer. The file has been seen being downloaded from stapi.maxrevinstaller.com.
Publisher:
LIVE SOFT ACTION  (signed by SIEN Internet Products Ltd)

Product:
RapidInstaller

Version:
9.3.5.2

MD5:
c8bb38fee7c757884964f6dc5ae813c5

SHA-1:
cae2af32da28bf505f8fecc491250bba7d8f0595

SHA-256:
04c876bae6efc989e654755068951f638f7215159c75517e1bcb588505d8fa9a

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.

Description:
This is an installer which may bundle legitimate applications with offers for additional 3rd-party applications that may be unwanted by the user. While the installer contains an 'opt-out' feature this is not set be defult and is usually overlooked.

Analysis date:
11/30/2024 10:43:40 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Sien (M)
17.3.11.20

File size:
1.6 MB (1,641,408 bytes)

Product version:
9.3.5.2

Copyright:
(c) LIVE SOFT ACTION. All rights reserved.

Original file name:
Setup.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
SIEN SuperInstall

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\skil 2230 user guide provided through pdfretriever.com.exe

Digital Signature
Authority:
GlobalSign nv-sa

Valid from:
7/2/2014 8:16:26 PM

Valid to:
7/3/2015 8:16:26 PM

Subject:
CN=SIEN Internet Products Ltd, O=SIEN Internet Products Ltd, L=London, C=GB

Issuer:
CN=GlobalSign CodeSigning CA - SHA256 - G2, O=GlobalSign nv-sa, C=BE

Serial number:
1121B65276582BE3F0926659AF0E1E5D895A

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
1/16/2015 8:46:11 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
11.0

Entry address:
0xD94D5

Entry point:
E8, 54, 92, 00, 00, E9, 7F, FE, FF, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 56, 8B, 75, 14, 85, F6, 75, 04, 33, C0, EB, 6D, 8B, 45, 08, 85, C0, 75, 13, E8, E8, 5D, 00, 00, 6A, 16, 5E, 89, 30, E8, A5, 98, 00, 00, 8B, C6, EB, 53, 57, 8B, 7D, 10, 85, FF, 74, 14, 39, 75, 0C, 72, 0F, 56, 57, 50, E8, D3, 0F, 00, 00, 83, C4, 0C, 33, C0, EB, 36, FF, 75, 0C, 6A, 00, 50, E8, 61, 05, 00, 00, 83, C4, 0C, 85, FF, 75, 09, E8, A7, 5D, 00, 00, 6A, 16, EB, 0C, 39, 75, 0C, 73, 13, E8, 99, 5D, 00, 00, 6A, 22, 5E, 89, 30, E8, 56, 98, 00, 00, 8B, C6...
 
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Entropy:
6.4193

Code size:
1 MB (1,093,120 bytes)

The file skil 2230 user guide provided through pdfretriever.com.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

http://stapi.maxrevinstaller.com/api/.../setup.exe