downshotfreesetup.exe

DownShotFree

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 downshotfreesetup.exe, “DownShotFree Setup” 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:
DownShotFree

Description:
DownShotFree Setup

Version:
1.1.0.240

MD5:
a39861073ba864796a9e13c870c7c948

SHA-1:
a878296d46dc3add0c1d0187f0d170ea2d6de604

SHA-256:
a88b668a2d6328e4d61978875682b2541ef5c9425f4c3c008713a9c5e269cdff

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:
5/4/2024 8:27:07 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Mindspark.Installer (M)
16.4.5.20

File size:
3.6 MB (3,731,424 bytes)

Product version:
1.1.0.240

Copyright:
© 2016 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:\users\{user}\downloads\downshotfreesetup.exe

Digital Signature
Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
4/19/2015 9:00:00 PM

Valid to:
6/18/2018 8:59:59 PM

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 4:10:44 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
10.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
98304:0hIm0gDHMxJjd6uxcOv4VTsW4x8x1UGomgkUinzEdj03iUUK:QImhC56uGOv4Bsvgev1ktnkQ

Entry address:
0x29E1

Entry point:
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Code size:
22 KB (22,528 bytes)

The file downshotfreesetup.exe has been seen being distributed by the following 2 URLs.

https://ssl-webplayer.unity3d.com/.../UnityWebPlayer.exe

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