spotify.exe

Contumar Empresarial SL

This belongs to a Solimba product that may be bundled with additional PUPs or may be part of an ad-supported software program. The application spotify.exe by Contumar Empresarial SL 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 Solimba DownloadMR installer. It uses the Solimba download manager to push adware offers during the download and setup process. Bundled adware includes search and shopping web browser toolbars.
Publisher:
Contumar Empresarial SL  (signed and verified)

MD5:
555928e747e5ad8013289764aa7c08ef

SHA-1:
af6acc5359a1d166269325417589f338dc32fc92

SHA-256:
bfa8301cf74573fa0a319bbc60835b87484079f3c3ffdde1a342cc7d6eedfc0e

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Adware

Explanation:
Uses the Solimba installer to bundle adware offers.

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:
12/26/2024 5:25:13 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Solimba.ContumarEmpresarial (M)
16.2.22.1

File size:
580.3 KB (594,184 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
Solimba DownloadMR

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

Digital Signature
Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
11/8/2014 1:00:00 AM

Valid to:
11/8/2017 12:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=Contumar Empresarial SL, O=Contumar Empresarial SL, L=Barcelona, S=Barcelona, C=ES

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:
5379FD229D65B9C16E52201B20D1F0FD

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
12/19/2014 10:28:34 AM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
12.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:GjKHCjsJTCgJzIgLQjN0/7L9qUcVwD8kZvLe/6Er4AMus0:GjKHlJTHkgcB0P9CWdB3A/

Entry address:
0xD44C

Entry point:
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Code size:
111 KB (113,664 bytes)

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