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autoruns_inst.exe

Well Known Media Ltd

The application autoruns_inst.exe by Well Known Media has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 9 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the Inno Setup installer. The setup program uses the InstallCore engine which may bundle additional software offers including toolbars and browser extensions.
Publisher:
Well Known Media Ltd  (signed and verified)

MD5:
35e618bad887b0b124123071dacadfdb

SHA-1:
fa1a901ba805cdd55ba900fca3b46ebeaa1ad86f

SHA-256:
b6c0ff313e404c16825ac8570e19191aca644c30ede89594972976dff9f31849

Scanner detections:
9 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Explanation:
Uses the InstallCore download manager to install additional potentially unwanted software which may include extensions such as DealPly and various toolbars.

Analysis date:
4/25/2024 3:54:50 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Avira AntiVirus
ADWARE/InstallCore.Gen9
7.11.171.180

AVG
Generic
2015.0.3346

Dr.Web
Trojan.Packed.28583
9.0.1.0262

ESET NOD32
Win32/InstallCore.QL potentially unwanted application
8.7.0.302.0

herdProtect (fuzzy)
variant of fhsetup_inst.exe
2014.11.14.3

K7 AntiVirus
Unwanted-Program
13.183.13345

Reason Heuristics
PUP.WellKnownMedia.N
14.9.15.8

Sophos
PUA.Install Core Click run software
55

VIPRE Antivirus
Threat.4786018
32938

File size:
748.7 KB (766,640 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
Inno Setup

Language:
Language Neutral

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Well Known Media Ltd

Authority:
COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:
8/20/2014 2:00:00 AM

Valid to:
8/21/2015 1:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=Well Known Media Ltd, O=Well Known Media Ltd, STREET=Kissack Court, STREET=29 Parliament Street, L=Ramsey, S=Isle of Man, PostalCode=IM8 1JA, C=IM

Issuer:
CN=COMODO Code Signing CA 2, O=COMODO CA Limited, L=Salford, S=Greater Manchester, C=GB

Serial number:
73CC925BC7B1EAFC96D9C9F2EAA55030

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
6/20/1992 12:22:17 AM

OS version:
1.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.25

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:3XvpfuZb0iH/En4FbJDmRpy0I6v0/JnQd04QyGIMh8oC6rKTfGeoMQfb2Y:3Xv1uZb02LDmXq6s/CS4mGBGeCjR

Entry address:
0x9C40

Entry point:
55, 8B, EC, 83, C4, C4, 53, 56, 57, 33, C0, 89, 45, F0, 89, 45, DC, E8, 86, 94, FF, FF, E8, 8D, A6, FF, FF, E8, 1C, A9, FF, FF, E8, 53, C9, FF, FF, E8, 9A, C9, FF, FF, E8, C9, F2, FF, FF, E8, 30, F4, FF, FF, 33, C0, 55, 68, FC, A2, 40, 00, 64, FF, 30, 64, 89, 20, 33, D2, 55, 68, C5, A2, 40, 00, 64, FF, 32, 64, 89, 22, A1, 14, C0, 40, 00, E8, 96, FE, FF, FF, E8, C9, FA, FF, FF, 8D, 55, F0, 33, C0, E8, 83, CF, FF, FF, 8B, 55, F0, B8, 24, CE, 40, 00, E8, 32, 95, FF, FF, 6A, 02, 6A, 00, 6A, 01, 8B, 0D, 24, CE...
 
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Entropy:
7.8141

Packer / compiler:
Inno Setup v5.x - Installer Maker

Code size:
37 KB (37,888 bytes)

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