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skype_rus_full_setup.exe

Interactive Install

LiveSoftAction

The program utilizes the Appscion Download and Install manager, an adware distribution bundler from SIEN SA. The setup program includes ad-supported toolbars and utilities. The application skype_rus_full_setup.exe by LiveSoftAction 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 ap.ic-cdn.net.
Publisher:
Live Soft Action S.R.L.  (signed by LiveSoftAction)

Product:
Interactive Install

Version:
1.0.11.0

MD5:
e8ff58d3d6aaf54a26f4292deea24482

SHA-1:
48f3641f073cd6d6ed3cd44b91fd3bf9e7f03f75

SHA-256:
3248f9c9dfb7cc0b850fd2d1193f3422694ed0f9d9e106d57e30ef2acb18b931

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Adware

Explanation:
This is a modified installer that uses the Appscion to bundle adware.

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:
12/25/2024 3:28:55 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Sien.LiveSoft.Bundler (M)
16.4.3.14

File size:
688.3 KB (704,840 bytes)

Product version:
1.0.11.0

Copyright:
(c) Live Soft Action S.R.L. All rights reserved.

Original file name:
Setup.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
SIEN SuperInstall

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
LiveSoftAction

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
6/5/2012 4:00:00 AM

Valid to:
6/6/2014 3:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=LiveSoftAction, OU=SienAppNetwork, OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O=LiveSoftAction, L=Bucharest, S=functiune, C=RO

Issuer:
CN=VeriSign Class 3 Code Signing 2010 CA, OU=Terms of use at https://www.verisign.com/rpa (c)10, OU=VeriSign Trust Network, O="VeriSign, Inc.", C=US

Serial number:
17E4CA22DB0D2CFD73BAACB9BD605BF7

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
4/17/2014 4:52:56 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
11.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:bSw/SZnFL6uIcjQ5ObQTQyr9nzZVvEiR5SY8ybqo1QQYH49Y/y90JT:F2Qc8EQEslzvEcSod1QVN/yKT

Entry address:
0x197830

Entry point:
60, BE, 00, 40, 50, 00, 8D, BE, 00, D0, EF, FF, 57, EB, 0B, 90, 8A, 06, 46, 88, 07, 47, 01, DB, 75, 07, 8B, 1E, 83, EE, FC, 11, DB, 72, ED, B8, 01, 00, 00, 00, 01, DB, 75, 07, 8B, 1E, 83, EE, FC, 11, DB, 11, C0, 01, DB, 73, 0B, 75, 28, 8B, 1E, 83, EE, FC, 11, DB, 72, 1F, 48, 01, DB, 75, 07, 8B, 1E, 83, EE, FC, 11, DB, 11, C0, EB, D4, 01, DB, 75, 07, 8B, 1E, 83, EE, FC, 11, DB, 11, C9, EB, 52, 31, C9, 83, E8, 03, 72, 11, C1, E0, 08, 8A, 06, 46, 83, F0, FF, 74, 75, D1, F8, 89, C5, EB, 0B, 01, DB, 75, 07, 8B...
 
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Entropy:
7.8980

Packer / compiler:
UPX v0.89.6 - v1.02 / v1.05 -v1.24

Code size:
592 KB (606,208 bytes)

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

http://ap.ic-cdn.net/.../Skype_Rus_Full_Setup.exe

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