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ten-years-after-change-the-world_downloader.exe

SimpleFiles Installer

Technology Island, Inc.

This is the Via Advertising bundle installer which bundles applications with offers for additional 3rd party software, mostly unwanted adware, and may be installed with minimal consent. The application ten-years-after-change-the-world_downloader.exe by Technology Island 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 YourFile Downloader installer. The file has been seen being downloaded from dd.simple-files.com.
Publisher:
Technology Island, Inc.  (signed and verified)

Product:
SimpleFiles Installer

Version:
1.0.0.1

MD5:
33eef91da928d73c7e88201f0c088080

SHA-1:
a29f970fd707b814dc2c277e2dca394c42301069

SHA-256:
512e02e5f569fddabbea6ff87c4a9b32f2cc5badc2b806c138fc071aa8b1a641

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 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:
11/30/2024 8:25:59 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Via Advertising (M)
16.7.20.13

File size:
3 MB (3,099,448 bytes)

Product version:
1.0.0.1

Copyright:
Copyright http://simple-files.com (C) 2014

Original file name:
SimpleFilesInstaller.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
YourFile Downloader

Language:
English

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\ten-years-after-change-the-world_downloader.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Technology Island, Inc.

Authority:
COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:
8/3/2012 2:00:00 AM

Valid to:
8/4/2014 1:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN="Technology Island, Inc.", O="Technology Island, Inc.", STREET="1740 H Dell Range Blvd #281", L=Cheyenne, S=Wyoming, PostalCode=82009, C=US

Issuer:
CN=COMODO Code Signing CA 2, O=COMODO CA Limited, L=Salford, S=Greater Manchester, C=GB

Serial number:
00C4B79CE2BFD68D5C070C51E7F2C237C5

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
6/20/2014 1:13:38 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
12.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
49152:4F22ghsoSMNBq0yGXe5gOEzVQqi6WTwHevM4Ow+D/aX9z8bx2y:4A2joSMNuRh0VQqi6qwHeUVnDaa12y

Entry address:
0x52C3C

Entry point:
E8, 33, 0B, 01, 00, E9, 00, 00, 00, 00, 6A, 14, 68, A8, 63, 4A, 00, E8, 2E, 99, 00, 00, E8, 87, 46, 00, 00, 0F, B7, F0, 6A, 02, E8, C6, 0A, 01, 00, 59, B8, 4D, 5A, 00, 00, 66, 39, 05, 00, 00, 40, 00, 74, 04, 33, DB, EB, 33, A1, 3C, 00, 40, 00, 81, B8, 00, 00, 40, 00, 50, 45, 00, 00, 75, EB, B9, 0B, 01, 00, 00, 66, 39, 88, 18, 00, 40, 00, 75, DD, 33, DB, 83, B8, 74, 00, 40, 00, 0E, 76, 09, 39, 98, E8, 00, 40, 00, 0F, 95, C3, 89, 5D, E4, E8, E6, C5, 00, 00, 85, C0, 75, 08, 6A, 1C, E8, DC, 00, 00, 00, 59, E8...
 
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Code size:
552 KB (565,248 bytes)

The file ten-years-after-change-the-world_downloader.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

http://dd.simple-files.com/j5GxUmydsF5nxr4Sa96lJnyRti9zrr4uO7C1Kje/jiFyqMMjUe3Ybxbn1G8f6MhTCK ABUWNkA8L3cReDdonAEuObBN/yTBKccYrDyuKZe0rjkruNj0qrSFpdOtnMRGqeHhc5wctRu8OcV 5HmpQxQh1VvgGWUnOSxwbzBZBIthDH2PC4w0K86BYKoLvVne171A8o800MKbzeWz7qntZ6q5/XOeEJAC2w2lc65prSdqeb0zXlBALhNIRHpvlAeXOj1mjg/.../nTHsqVjB3ElIUb

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