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getnowupdater.exe

SIEN Internet Products Ltd

This is the SIEN AppScion Installer which bundles applications with offers for additional 3rd party software, mostly unwanted adware, and may be installed with minimal consent. The application getnowupdater.exe by SIEN Internet Products 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 SIEN SuperInstall installer. It is set to automatically start when a user logs into Windows via the current user run registry key under the display name ‘GetNowUpdater’.
Publisher:
SIEN Internet Products Ltd  (signed and verified)

MD5:
a0ce2a88232729315140093affdd5957

SHA-1:
a12bb67ce27afb4cc77233c2c98b9f779a6adc6a

SHA-256:
6c637bedf923615f450ffadd5aa513c8e74e184f626df720d6746e05e206fbb8

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Adware

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.

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:
5/17/2024 6:12:24 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Sien.SIENInte.Bundler (M)
16.7.4.14

File size:
7 MB (7,328,368 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
SIEN SuperInstall

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\roaming\getnowupdater\bin\getnowupdater.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
SIEN Internet Products Ltd

Authority:
GlobalSign nv-sa

Valid from:
2/2/2015 11:13:19 AM

Valid to:
2/3/2016 11:13:19 AM

Subject:
CN=SIEN Internet Products Ltd, O=SIEN Internet Products Ltd, L=London, C=GB

Issuer:
CN=GlobalSign CodeSigning CA - SHA256 - G2, O=GlobalSign nv-sa, C=BE

Serial number:
1121B83795C783CB891BECAAAEEF4B5E1F5B

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
8/10/2015 5:05:10 AM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
10.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
98304:nCvsF/BPMWR8SZl6A8HU0lp1NjsXriPcCBcldcahIJzrffM:nC+/BPM4sTLo75CBGea0k

Entry address:
0x1761AC

Entry point:
E8, DB, 69, 01, 00, E9, 89, FE, FF, FF, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 8B, 45, 08, 33, C9, 3B, 04, CD, 08, 3F, AA, 00, 74, 13, 41, 83, F9, 2D, 72, F1, 8D, 48, ED, 83, F9, 11, 77, 0E, 6A, 0D, 58, 5D, C3, 8B, 04, CD, 0C, 3F, AA, 00, 5D, C3, 05, 44, FF, FF, FF, 6A, 0E, 59, 3B, C8, 1B, C0, 23, C1, 83, C0, 08, 5D, C3, E8, FC, 63, 00, 00, 85, C0, 75, 06, B8, 70, 40, AA, 00, C3, 83, C0, 08, C3, E8, E9, 63, 00, 00, 85, C0, 75, 06, B8, 74, 40, AA, 00, C3, 83, C0, 0C, C3, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 56, E8, E2, FF, FF, FF, 8B, 4D, 08...
 
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Code size:
3.6 MB (3,749,376 bytes)

Startup File (User Run)
Registry location:
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

Name:
GetNowUpdater

Command:
"C:\users\{user}\appdata\roaming\getnowupdater\bin\getnowupdater.exe" \silent_startup


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