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the weather channel desktop.exe

Contumar Empresarial s.l.

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 the weather channel desktop.exe by Contumar Empresarial s.l has been detected as adware by 23 anti-malware scanners. 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. The file has been seen being downloaded from get.dialgoing.com.
Publisher:
Contumar Empresarial s.l.  (signed and verified)

MD5:
132ca4ff1a22e81c5dec45ed487de945

SHA-1:
0374fcffcb7f88d4883475b8a7e5424d3b26a242

SHA-256:
775e3502e046fb91c98f675f9a9788657354cc4c44129d240c0e139d3b2680e6

Scanner detections:
23 / 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:
1/12/2025 6:25:08 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Gen:Variant.Adware.Graftor.190520
5727669

Agnitum Outpost
Trojan.DR.Addrop
7.1.1

Avira AntiVirus
PUA/Firseria.psdd
8.3.1.6

Arcabit
Trojan.Adware.Graftor.D2E838
1.0.0.425

AVG
Generic
2016.0.3083

Bitdefender
Gen:Variant.Adware.Graftor.190520
1.0.20.805

Clam AntiVirus
Win.Trojan.Agent-882857
0.98/20559

Dr.Web
Adware.Downware.11521
9.0.1.05190

Emsisoft Anti-Malware
Gen:Variant.Adware.Graftor.190520
10.0.0.5366

ESET NOD32
Win32/TrojanDropper.Addrop.J trojan
7.0.302.0

F-Secure
Gen:Variant.Adware.Graftor
5.14.151

G Data
Gen:Variant.Adware.Graftor.190520
15.6.25

IKARUS anti.virus
AdWare.Agent
t3scan.1.9.5.0

K7 AntiVirus
Riskware
13.204.16191

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.Bundle
v2015.06.10.01

MicroWorld eScan
Gen:Variant.Adware.Graftor.190520
16.0.0.483

NANO AntiVirus
Riskware.Win32.Downware.dsnqhl
0.30.24.2086

Norman
Gen:Variant.Adware.Graftor.190520
02.06.2015 14:23:46

Panda Antivirus
Trj/Genetic.gen
15.06.10.01

Reason Heuristics
PUP.ContumarEmpresarial
15.6.10.0

Sophos
PUA 'Solimba Installer'
5.15

VIPRE Antivirus
Threat.4150696
40828

Zillya! Antivirus
Dropper.Addrop.Win32.242
2.0.0.2215

File size:
644.6 KB (660,064 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
Solimba DownloadMR

Language:
Language Neutral

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\the weather channel desktop.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Contumar Empresarial s.l.

Authority:
GlobalSign nv-sa

Valid from:
2/2/2015 9:00:38 AM

Valid to:
9/24/2016 11:00:25 AM

Subject:
CN=Contumar Empresarial s.l., O=Contumar Empresarial s.l., L=Barcelona, S=Barcelona, C=ES

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

Serial number:
112119FE6AFB4FA7129F4F594CD3E07D5B21

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
5/28/2015 10:22:04 AM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
12.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:HEV/eHpTEQcwJ0m0NGBf9YxW1R7G39mssMet/bVDscyQ5Fa0WX0:0eHPXTYxWf7G39mssJpAY5Fa0WX0

Entry address:
0x10FEC

Entry point:
E8, 7E, 96, 00, 00, E9, 00, 00, 00, 00, 6A, 14, 68, F0, CB, 42, 00, E8, BE, 57, 00, 00, E8, 2C, 1D, 00, 00, 0F, B7, F0, 6A, 02, E8, 11, 96, 00, 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, BD, 4D, 00, 00, 85, C0, 75, 08, 6A, 1C, E8, DC, 00, 00, 00, 59, E8...
 
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Entropy:
7.5432

Code size:
139 KB (142,336 bytes)

The file the weather channel desktop.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

http://get.dialgoing.com/n/.../The Weather Channel Desktop.exe

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