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softwareupdater.exe

OSU

Traffic Space, LLC

The application softwareupdater.exe by Traffic Space 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 NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) installer. The file has been seen being downloaded from opensoftwareupdate.com and multiple other hosts.
Publisher:
Traffic Space, LLC  (signed and verified)

Product:
OSU

Version:
3.1.0.0

MD5:
0337a3f58d8639711da1bc790d58737d

SHA-1:
ad9993da1a81f0ee1294121a838bc103423ff6ad

SHA-256:
a5b57d9472d1295a4671bd8001b18713eddad0cf5ea94cfe2ba1056ce12acbfe

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:
12/26/2024 6:27:04 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.TrafficSpace.Installer (M)
15.12.10.3

File size:
208.3 KB (213,304 bytes)

Copyright:
Copyright 2015

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)

Language:
Language Neutral

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\microsoft\windows\inetcache\ie\{random}\softwareupdater.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Traffic Space, LLC

Authority:
Symantec Corporation

Valid from:
3/16/2015 7:00:00 PM

Valid to:
4/15/2016 6:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN="Traffic Space, LLC", O="Traffic Space, 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:
6C4417841FFCEC12D6EFE825A6723A4E

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
12/5/2009 4:50:46 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
3072:IQIURTXJN4SuEdMIg+cTgZLaPTk/I0AKxSVLXv07IfpSdwHsuk0Z10gDb7fLAFvi:IsLbFgK2U5QLfsUNrL7jQv2BF

Entry address:
0x323C

Entry point:
81, EC, 80, 01, 00, 00, 53, 55, 56, 33, DB, 57, 89, 5C, 24, 18, C7, 44, 24, 10, 30, 91, 40, 00, 33, F6, C6, 44, 24, 14, 20, FF, 15, 30, 70, 40, 00, 68, 01, 80, 00, 00, FF, 15, B4, 70, 40, 00, 53, FF, 15, 7C, 72, 40, 00, 6A, 08, A3, 58, 3F, 42, 00, E8, 09, 2C, 00, 00, A3, A4, 3E, 42, 00, 53, 8D, 44, 24, 34, 68, 60, 01, 00, 00, 50, 53, 68, 58, F4, 41, 00, FF, 15, 58, 71, 40, 00, 68, B8, 91, 40, 00, 68, A0, 36, 42, 00, E8, BC, 28, 00, 00, FF, 15, B0, 70, 40, 00, BF, 00, 90, 42, 00, 50, 57, E8, AA, 28, 00, 00...
 
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Entropy:
7.6646

Packer / compiler:
Nullsoft install system v2.x

Code size:
23 KB (23,552 bytes)

The file softwareupdater.exe has been seen being distributed by the following 2 URLs.

https://opensoftwareupdate.com/idownloader.php

https://appdownloading.com/startdle.php

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