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vlc-setup.exe

Secure Installer

The installer utilizes the installCore download manager which may bundle additional offers for various ad-supported toolbars, extensions and utilities. The application vlc-setup.exe by Secure Installer has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 16 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the installCore installer. According to Microsoft Security Essentials, the software includes a bundle of the DealPly adware which is installed on a user's PC during setup using the InstallCore platform.
Publisher:
Secure Installer  (signed and verified)

MD5:
abe3789d427241d2e3d1e19bdf9781d3

SHA-1:
3fdafb3d39c93eed57fbe22ac66f2aff9fff9c66

SHA-256:
c68d8cb4860a697bf736357794b04b1d365b896ca26e4b8a40f6780e013f9fc9

Scanner detections:
16 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Explanation:
This software bundler installs other potentially unwanted software, including DealPly. Which includes offers in a user's web browser which state they are "Powered by DealPly".

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:
1/14/2025 9:35:44 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Avira AntiVirus
APPL/InstallCore.Y.92
7.11.119.234

Bkav FE
W32.Clod819.Trojan
1.3.0.4613

Comodo Security
UnclassifiedMalware
17450

Dr.Web
Adware.InstallCore.122
9.0.1.0352

ESET NOD32
Win32/InstallCore.BL
7.9179

Fortinet FortiGate
W32/InstallCore.BL
12/18/2013

F-Prot
W32/InstallCore.R.gen
v6.4.7.1.166

IKARUS anti.virus
Backdoor.Hupigon
t3scan.2.2.29

K7 AntiVirus
Unwanted-Program
13.174.10530

McAfee
Artemis!ABE3789D4272
5600.7278

Microsoft Security Essentials
SoftwareBundler:Win32/DealPly
1.165.247.01

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Installer.SecureInstaller.J
14.3.1.12

Rising Antivirus
PE:Malware.InstallCore!6.4
23.00.65.131216

Sophos
Install Core
4.96

Trend Micro House Call
TROJ_GEN.F47V0720
7.2.352

VIPRE Antivirus
InstallCore
24426

File size:
1.2 MB (1,226,888 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
installCore (using Inno Setup)

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Secure Installer

Authority:
COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:
9/24/2012 9:00:00 PM

Valid to:
9/25/2013 8:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Secure Installer, O=Secure Installer, STREET=720 Market Street, STREET=5th floor, L=San Francisco, S=CA, PostalCode=94102, C=US

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

Serial number:
00C3507C1ADDE6B4C52E5426990F85CA2B

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
6/19/1992 7:22:17 PM

OS version:
1.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.25

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:mJfsDqNYDaPaDFo7WwFINVvgFe37rzIOrhNyoMuaFXgadEu/enWVSIh:mJfsD+2vj7rsOrhNzoQadEuSW

Entry address:
0x98CC

Entry point:
55, 8B, EC, 83, C4, CC, 53, 56, 57, 33, C0, 89, 45, F0, 89, 45, DC, E8, FA, 97, FF, FF, E8, 01, AA, FF, FF, E8, 2C, CC, FF, FF, E8, 73, CC, FF, FF, E8, 0A, F3, FF, FF, E8, 71, F4, FF, FF, 33, C0, 55, 68, 76, 9F, 40, 00, 64, FF, 30, 64, 89, 20, 33, D2, 55, 68, 2C, 9F, 40, 00, 64, FF, 32, 64, 89, 22, A1, 14, B0, 40, 00, E8, 9B, FE, FF, FF, E8, 26, FA, FF, FF, 8D, 55, F0, 33, C0, E8, E0, D0, FF, FF, 8B, 55, F0, B8, D8, BD, 40, 00, E8, AB, 98, FF, FF, 6A, 02, 6A, 00, 6A, 01, 8B, 0D, D8, BD, 40, 00, B2, 01, B8...
 
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Packer / compiler:
Inno Setup v5.x - Installer Maker

Code size:
36 KB (36,864 bytes)

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