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vlcmediaplayer-setup.exe

Spiral Media

The application vlcmediaplayer-setup.exe by Spiral Media 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 Tomorrow Software Installer installer. With this installer, users are expecting to download the VideoLAN VLC media player but before that occurs they may be presented with additional offers, mostly potentially unwanted software or adware. The file has been seen being downloaded from files4.downloadnet1039.com.
Publisher:
Premier Installer  (signed by Spiral Media)

Product:
Premier Installer

Version:
2.3.4.6

MD5:
7c272f24298c88a1f5b3c56ac3735057

SHA-1:
0622f29d98e63286f333d125fe2cc3d2606fa84a

SHA-256:
c6a962b082f50d0744ad039e8189dc519a33a63677d0e7afd0407e4d8c434356

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:
1/14/2025 10:18:31 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.TomorrowSoftware.SpiralMe.Bundler (M)
16.4.7.21

File size:
874.7 KB (895,704 bytes)

Product version:
2.3.4.6

Copyright:
Copyright (C) 2015

Original file name:
setup.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
Tomorrow Software Installer

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\microsoft\windows\inetcache\ie\{random}\vlcmediaplayer-setup.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Spiral Media

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
6/24/2015 5:30:00 AM

Valid to:
6/24/2016 5:29:59 AM

Subject:
CN=Spiral Media, O=Spiral Media, L=San Francisco, S=California, C=US

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:
6D229836E7034F48BD411B17636E7FEF

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
7/23/2014 3:42:28 PM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:xsMLKmtvPyHu70twEMsKo0nry9pNg4W7HM84cN+2QHCn/:CiKmHyOgtC/p7s8FQa

Entry address:
0xC822

Entry point:
E8, 3C, 05, 00, 00, E9, 57, FD, FF, FF, CC, CC, CC, CC, 51, 8D, 4C, 24, 04, 2B, C8, 1B, C0, F7, D0, 23, C8, 8B, C4, 25, 00, F0, FF, FF, 3B, C8, 72, 0A, 8B, C1, 59, 94, 8B, 00, 89, 04, 24, C3, 2D, 00, 10, 00, 00, 85, 00, EB, E9, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 81, EC, 28, 03, 00, 00, A3, A8, 4B, 41, 00, 89, 0D, A4, 4B, 41, 00, 89, 15, A0, 4B, 41, 00, 89, 1D, 9C, 4B, 41, 00, 89, 35, 98, 4B, 41, 00, 89, 3D, 94, 4B, 41, 00, 66, 8C, 15, C0, 4B, 41, 00, 66, 8C, 0D, B4, 4B, 41, 00, 66, 8C, 1D, 90, 4B, 41, 00, 66, 8C, 05, 8C...
 
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Entropy:
7.9584  (probably packed)

Code size:
51.5 KB (52,736 bytes)

The file vlcmediaplayer-setup.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

http://files4.downloadnet1039.com/download/.../dl?bc=1190275&pid=piratebay&brand=piratebay.com&country=IN&cb=-271648909&osName=Windows&osVersion=8.1&browserName=IE&browserVersion=11&zTmp=1&executable=1188587

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