adwcleaner.exe

Danorel Integral

This belongs to a Solimba product that may be bundled with additional PUPs or may be part of an ad-supported software program. The application adwcleaner.exe by Danorel Integral 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 Solimba DownloadMR installer. It uses the Solimba download manager to push adware offers during the download and setup process. Bundled adware includes search and shopping web browser toolbars.
Publisher:
Danorel Integral  (signed and verified)

MD5:
efd173bc57e9491c414f80b32de1792d

SHA-1:
30c7e75086de0c98910deefdd23d68ba45d2c111

SHA-256:
244e6f5a35d14880581837f9c1e8ed5e047885382325cca7323984e865048012

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Adware

Explanation:
Uses the Solimba installer to bundle adware offers.

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:
4/26/2024 2:57:38 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Solimba (M)
16.7.18.12

File size:
582.7 KB (596,696 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
Solimba DownloadMR

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\adwcleaner.exe

Digital Signature
Authority:
Thawte, Inc.

Valid from:
9/23/2014 9:00:00 PM

Valid to:
9/23/2016 8:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Danorel Integral, O=Danorel Integral, L=Barcelona, S=Barcelona, C=ES

Issuer:
CN=Thawte Code Signing CA - G2, O="Thawte, Inc.", C=US

Serial number:
0C903250E5B6BC8883153FAB99138CD5

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
12/11/2014 1:24:33 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
12.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:z7Dc6CsPTST39zt77X0iXl+KX+yaK8M5FGQrMa/6VGk:z7DcIPT0t1r/1+TyV8M5XDk

Entry address:
0xD44C

Entry point:
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Code size:
111 KB (113,664 bytes)

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