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gounzipsetup.exe

GoUnzip

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 gounzipsetup.exe 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 Mindspark Custom Setup installer.

File name:

gounzipsetup.exe

Publisher:

Mindspark Interactive Network (signed and verified)

Product:

GoUnzip

Description:

GoUnzip Setup

Version:

1.2.0.465

MD5:

3fc9a638c3e253a7fe2699f16c2ddc21

SHA-1:

9b3b41a44f3966cba05814a98b2c21ad0ea0a508

SHA-256:

68aeb21f6a3537352c9335e80cfd46e52da493260b78780b4580ec02cc61778e

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.

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:

5/17/2025 6:07:12 PM UTC (today)

Scan engine

Detection

Engine version

Reason Heuristics

PUP.Mindspark.Bundler (M)

16.4.5.17

File size:

4.4 MB (4,585,800 bytes)

Product version:

1.2.0.465

Trademarks:

Original file name:

suf_launch.exe

File type:

Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:

Mindspark Custom Setup

Language:

English (United States)

Common path:

C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\microsoft\windows\inetcache\ie\{random}\gounzipsetup.exe

Digital Signature

Signed by:

Mindspark Interactive Network

Authority:

VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:

4/20/2015 2:00:00 AM

Valid to:

6/19/2018 1:59:59 AM

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 9:10:44 PM

OS version:

5.1

OS bitness:

Win32

Subsystem:

Windows GUI

Linker version:

10.0

CTPH (ssdeep):

98304:thIm0gDHMxJFd6uxce/qC4x8x1UGomgkUinzEdjGJ4Br6/rMbn:fImhCD6uGeugev1ktnBJ4F6/rW

Entry address:

0x29E1

Entry point:

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Code size:

22 KB (22,528 bytes)

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

http://ak.dl.gounzip.com/images/nocache/vicinio/executable-packages/GoUnzip/.../GoUnzipSetup.exe

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