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ClickOnceSetup.exe

UpdateStar Downloader

UpdateStar GmbH

The installer utilizes the installCore download manager which may bundle additional offers for various ad-supported toolbars, extensions and utilities. The application ClickOnceSetup.exe by UpdateStar GmbH has been detected as a potentially unwanted program 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.
Publisher:
UpdateStar GmbH  (signed and verified)

Product:
UpdateStar Downloader

Version:
1.0.5.43735

MD5:
133d8608c7ec93815fd7f93a43e96ab4

SHA-1:
e1cbb4c4bda1ef25788debc2785c08db42cd55d8

SHA-256:
204346aa457250199596f138c4fe9bf0f22192d4988e0254b6a2e330deea029c

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

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:
5/17/2024 2:51:29 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.installCore (M)
17.3.14.18

File size:
1006.4 KB (1,030,560 bytes)

Product version:
1.0.5.43735

Original file name:
ClickOnceSetup.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
installCore

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\apps\2.0\bkzq1635.3oq\yb63l1xe.8jr\clic..tion_0000000000000000_0001.0000_f513d69bfe3f9663\clickoncesetup.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
UpdateStar GmbH

Authority:
GlobalSign nv-sa

Valid from:
2/3/2015 1:10:42 PM

Valid to:
2/4/2016 1:10:42 PM

Subject:
CN=UpdateStar GmbH, O=UpdateStar GmbH, L=Berlin, S=Berlin, C=DE

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

Serial number:
112124922D3C2654755777EEC500C21F7151

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
8/19/2015 3:01:17 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
11.0

.NET CLR dependent:
Yes

Entry address:
0xF3BFE

Entry point:
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Developed / compiled with:
Microsoft Visual C# / Basic .NET

Code size:
967.5 KB (990,720 bytes)

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