{1cbd5089-56db-4e1f-b197-e16343df0166}.exe

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Mindspark Interactive Network

This is the installer stub for the Mindspark (Mindspark Interactive Network/Ask) browser toolbar which provides the offer to the end user to install the toolbar and set the browser's search, home page and new tab to an Ask.com search destination. The application {1cbd5089-56db-4e1f-b197-e16343df0166}.exe by Mindspark Interactive Network 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 Setup Factory installer.
Publisher:
Mindspark Interactive Network  (signed and verified)

Product:
GoUnzip

Description:
GoUnzip Setup

Version:
1.2.0.429

MD5:
2ada55a89364ed59fb605b08a43b8ae3

SHA-1:
586164ab772aeb4d4278224dea458dd9aa3f19a3

SHA-256:
8071e9a572f8d398ac3745eed1adf4e114685e512bd77b3de40f685e84f44909

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.

Analysis date:
5/17/2025 8:43:56 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Mindspark.MindsparkInteractiveNetwork.Installer (M)
16.3.3.10

File size:
4.3 MB (4,470,056 bytes)

Product version:
1.1.0.429

Copyright:
� 2014 Mindspark Interactive Network, Inc. An IAC Company. All rights reserved.

Trademarks:
� & � Mindspark Interactive Network, Inc. An IAC Company. All rights reserved.

Original file name:
suf_launch.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
Setup Factory

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\Program Files\gounzip_dm\bar\2.bin\{1cbd5089-56db-4e1f-b197-e16343df0166}.exe

Digital Signature
Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
4/20/2015 2:00:00 AM

Valid to:
6/19/2018 1:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=Mindspark Interactive Network, O=Mindspark Interactive Network, L=Yonkers, S=New York, 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:
438D4291E43C2DFFEEAAAEE5B6C070B5

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
8/27/2013 9:10:44 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
10.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
98304:8hIm0gDHMxJ9d6uxctk7rw4x8x1UGomgkUinzEdjqgmtzOC:oImhCL6uGi7rhgev1ktnHgCOC

Entry address:
0x29E1

Entry point:
E8, A6, 1D, 00, 00, E9, 89, FE, FF, FF, 8B, FF, 56, 57, 33, F6, BF, C8, AB, 40, 00, 83, 3C, F5, 54, A0, 40, 00, 01, 75, 1D, 8D, 04, F5, 50, A0, 40, 00, 89, 38, 68, A0, 0F, 00, 00, FF, 30, 83, C7, 18, FF, 15, C0, 70, 40, 00, 85, C0, 74, 0C, 46, 83, FE, 24, 7C, D3, 33, C0, 40, 5F, 5E, C3, 83, 24, F5, 50, A0, 40, 00, 00, 33, C0, EB, F1, 8B, FF, 53, 8B, 1D, C4, 70, 40, 00, 56, BE, 50, A0, 40, 00, 57, 8B, 3E, 85, FF, 74, 13, 83, 7E, 04, 01, 74, 0D, 57, FF, D3, 57, E8, 18, FD, FF, FF, 83, 26, 00, 59, 83, C6, 08...
 
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Entropy:
7.9181  (probably packed)

Code size:
22 KB (22,528 bytes)

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