CouponActivator.exe

Coupon Print Activator

Catalina Marketing Corp.

The application CouponActivator.exe, “Coupon Print Activator Application” by Catalina Marketing 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 file has been seen being downloaded from print.coupons.target.com and multiple other hosts.
Publisher:
Catalina Marketing Corp.   (signed by Catalina Marketing Corp.)

Product:
Coupon Print Activator

Description:
Coupon Print Activator Application

Version:
5, 0, 0, 0

MD5:
3250e3de96c1667a45338d8cae7c3372

SHA-1:
ece18c93e403ffeae8b4f10b862eac3eb8d84f14

SHA-256:
092332bfad3d1513d1e5d24c91f8124d2e32ea1ccb48714d8bf1e6b46ea5293a

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:
4/25/2024 6:23:41 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.CatalinaMarketingCorp.P
14.4.13.10

File size:
478.7 KB (490,200 bytes)

Product version:
5, 0, 0, 0

Copyright:
Copyright (C) 2010-2012

Original file name:
CouponActivator.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
English (United States)

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

Digital Signature
Authority:
Thawte, Inc.

Valid from:
6/3/2013 8:00:00 PM

Valid to:
6/23/2015 7:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Catalina Marketing Corp., OU=Catalina Marketing Corp., O=Catalina Marketing Corp., L=Saint Petersburg, S=Florida, C=US

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

Serial number:
0A236906277CCA1D180B2EC92A3F5D7D

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
9/14/2011 7:26:38 AM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
8.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:wk2oZ+Emo6UgmhYr0MyGbSv6SJ6AwbVASFbyQK:oY+2gc80MRI3TKVA+OQK

Entry address:
0x78B3

Entry point:
E8, C9, 71, 00, 00, E9, 17, FE, FF, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 83, EC, 20, 8B, 45, 08, 56, 57, 6A, 08, 59, BE, 54, 54, 41, 00, 8D, 7D, E0, F3, A5, 89, 45, F8, 8B, 45, 0C, 85, C0, 5F, 89, 45, FC, 5E, 74, 0C, F6, 00, 08, 74, 07, C7, 45, F4, 00, 40, 99, 01, 8D, 45, F4, 50, FF, 75, F0, FF, 75, E4, FF, 75, E0, FF, 15, 6C, 50, 41, 00, C9, C2, 08, 00, 55, 8B, EC, 51, 53, 8B, 45, 0C, 83, C0, 0C, 89, 45, FC, 64, 8B, 1D, 00, 00, 00, 00, 8B, 03, 64, A3, 00, 00, 00, 00, 8B, 45, 08, 8B, 5D, 0C, 8B, 6D, FC, 8B, 63, FC, FF, E0, 5B...
 
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Entropy:
7.5498

Code size:
80 KB (81,920 bytes)

The file CouponActivator.exe has been seen being distributed by the following 3 URLs.

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