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Soft Installer Program

Media Theory (New Media Holdings Ltd)

The application utorrent.exe, “Soft Installer Program Setup ” by Media Theory (New Media Holdings) 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 installCore installer. It is also typically executed from an Internet Explorer cache folder. The file has been seen being downloaded from www.megatourapplications.com and multiple other hosts.
Publisher:
Software Installer Web   (signed by Media Theory (New Media Holdings Ltd))

Product:
Soft Installer Program

Description:
Soft Installer Program Setup

Version:
2.6.5.3

MD5:
88cb0cd26c1e87bcdb6c11b282a8e5d4

SHA-1:
4a5b04f00ed2e80708ec049f0aade55a73a55314

SHA-256:
9011a8422ae125f7d11e057ecca4f0637079b3ce23638deb6f0789c7a421a4fc

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 'download manager' is also considered bundleware, a utility designed to download software (possibly legitimate or opensource) and bundle it with a number of optional offers including ad-supported utilities, toolbars, shopping comparison tools and browser extensions.

Analysis date:
11/6/2024 10:36:32 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.NewMedia.Installer.Installer (M)
16.2.15.9

File size:
959.7 KB (982,776 bytes)

Product version:
2.6.1

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
installCore (using Inno Setup)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\microsoft\windows\temporary internet files\content.ie5\{random}\utorrent.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Media Theory (New Media Holdings Ltd)

Authority:
GlobalSign nv-sa

Valid from:
5/25/2015 1:37:49 PM

Valid to:
5/25/2016 1:37:49 PM

Subject:
CN=Media Theory (New Media Holdings Ltd), O=Media Theory (New Media Holdings Ltd), L=Tel Aviv, C=IL

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

Serial number:
1121BA944A31E4793A274CC4ADECFF1E7349

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
6/20/1992 12:22:17 AM

OS version:
1.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.25

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:ezUYA+88/qxmNIqyIHgVRP0zKfyxHQr98X:ezZANMgmuvIu8w

Entry address:
0x9C40

Entry point:
55, 8B, EC, 83, C4, C4, 53, 56, 57, 33, C0, 89, 45, F0, 89, 45, DC, E8, 86, 94, FF, FF, E8, 8D, A6, FF, FF, E8, 1C, A9, FF, FF, E8, 53, C9, FF, FF, E8, 9A, C9, FF, FF, E8, C9, F2, FF, FF, E8, 30, F4, FF, FF, 33, C0, 55, 68, FC, A2, 40, 00, 64, FF, 30, 64, 89, 20, 33, D2, 55, 68, C5, A2, 40, 00, 64, FF, 32, 64, 89, 22, A1, 14, C0, 40, 00, E8, 96, FE, FF, FF, E8, C9, FA, FF, FF, 8D, 55, F0, 33, C0, E8, 83, CF, FF, FF, 8B, 55, F0, B8, 24, CE, 40, 00, E8, 32, 95, FF, FF, 6A, 02, 6A, 00, 6A, 01, 8B, 0D, 24, CE...
 
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Packer / compiler:
Inno Setup v5.x - Installer Maker

Code size:
37 KB (37,888 bytes)

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

http://www.megatourapplications.com/.../n3Ja47XmSW BrNDeV4DVGtavGTWBGDTMnxpPtJPamxDQYCdIJhAqBq963AEPvGW6wfQ U577Hu4zlk1VharCJErA==&downloadAs=uTorrent.exe

http://www.signcleartowers.com/c?x=s/.../anpGpXFI0ASwc2S6Ql8=&c=IPudcHXO7Mcg7eMJ31Xi8HV9pbf1K4isWuhxm39RsY4ekCDUDpDCDiRueMnn q7XfA7NKLipx4DnzWMb6V Hslchu2qb vZ3kYKcWmdCc1W1c6Eb0Sz4R8n4a1a bqD9AxGssneBaJDaQvCWlB7bhg==&downloadAs=uTorrent.exe

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