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Solimba Aplicaciones S.L.

This is the Solimba installer program that will bundle additional offers mostly including adware and various unwanted PC utilities. The application ares.exe by Solimba Aplicaciones S.L has been detected as adware by 25 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the Solimba DownloadMR installer. The installer uses the Solimba download manager to push adware offers during the download and setup process. Bundled adware includes search and shopping web browser toolbars. The file has been seen being downloaded from d1w467en2eqqh2.cloudfront.net.
Publisher:
Solimba Aplicaciones S.L.  (signed and verified)

Product:
ares

Version:
2.2.40.0

MD5:
012434d1d9d13c22094be326b149d97d

SHA-1:
0aa80a549f0b7b0776fb41baf0ce76a8b4454ae4

SHA-256:
645687ff573292b13cd9a3f4d55c6640a96a21136b95e50e4fb820dafd8de539

Scanner detections:
25 / 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:
4/25/2024 8:43:06 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

AhnLab V3 Security
Trojan/Win32.Agent
2013.08.22

Avira AntiVirus
APPL/Solimba.Gen5
7.11.150.164

avast!
MSIL:Solimba-S [PUP]
2014.9-160128

AVG
AdInstaller.Q
2017.0.2851

Bitdefender
Gen:Variant.Adware.Solimba.1
1.0.20.140

Clam AntiVirus
WIN.Adware.Solimba-3
0.98/18155

Comodo Security
Application.Win32.Solimba.KX
18306

Dr.Web
Adware.Downware.1021
9.0.1.028

Emsisoft Anti-Malware
Gen:Variant.Adware.Solimba
8.16.01.28.03

ESET NOD32
MSIL/Solimba
10.9823

Fortinet FortiGate
Adware/Solimba
1/28/2016

F-Prot
W32/Solimba.B.gen
v6.4.7.1.166

F-Secure
Gen:Variant.Adware.Solimba.1
11.2016-28-01_5

G Data
Gen:Variant.Adware.Solimba
16.1.22

IKARUS anti.virus
Win32.SuspectCrc
t3scan.1.1.118.0

K7 AntiVirus
Unwanted-Program
13.170.9352

Malwarebytes
Adware.Solimba.Lame
v2016.01.28.03

McAfee
Artemis!73A2FF7FE7A7
5600.6507

MicroWorld eScan
Gen:Variant.Adware.Solimba.1
17.0.0.84

Norman
W32/Solimba.EK
11.20160128

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Solimba.SolimbaAplicaciones.Bundler (M)
16.1.28.3

Rising Antivirus
PE:PUF.FirseriaInstaller@CV!1.5C42
23.00.65.16126

Sophos
DownloadMR
4.98

SUPERAntiSpyware
Adware.Downware
9359

VIPRE Antivirus
DownloadMR
29412

File size:
176.9 KB (181,160 bytes)

Copyright:
(c) 2010 (Build:2012-10-08 15:25)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
Solimba DownloadMR

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Solimba Aplicaciones S.L.

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
5/15/2011 6:00:00 PM

Valid to:
5/15/2013 5:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Solimba Aplicaciones S.L., OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O=Solimba Aplicaciones S.L., L=Badalona, S=Barcelona, C=ES

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:
450EE582E26020D5F7632F2BECC6C5BD

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
8/30/2011 9:46:24 AM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.21

CTPH (ssdeep):
3072:bnOn7t7XpdpCCTg/sxFgJDf5pCTifYFLMIxDhVOfeuz8PVK0B6v93j:bKpdcCrTqfKefihUfeccK0B2

Entry address:
0x4327

Entry point:
55, 89, E5, 57, 56, 53, 81, EC, AC, 01, 00, 00, FF, 15, 74, 83, 42, 00, C7, 04, 24, 01, 80, 00, 00, FF, 15, 58, 84, 42, 00, 53, C7, 04, 24, 00, 00, 00, 00, FF, 15, 98, 84, 42, 00, 56, A3, 40, 6B, 42, 00, C7, 04, 24, 08, 00, 00, 00, E8, 8D, 3B, 00, 00, A3, 9C, 6B, 42, 00, 8D, 85, 84, FE, FF, FF, 57, C7, 44, 24, 10, 00, 00, 00, 00, C7, 44, 24, 0C, 60, 01, 00, 00, 89, 44, 24, 08, C7, 44, 24, 04, 00, 00, 00, 00, C7, 04, 24, 01, B3, 40, 00, FF, 15, AC, 84, 42, 00, 83, EC, 14, C7, 44, 24, 04, 02, B3, 40, 00, C7...
 
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Entropy:
7.4371

Code size:
34.5 KB (35,328 bytes)

The file ares.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

http://d1w467en2eqqh2.cloudfront.net/2.2.40/.../ares.exe

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