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hitinstall.exe

InstallShield

National Consumer Panel

The program is a setup application that uses the InstallShield Setup installer. The file has been seen being downloaded from www.homescan.com and multiple other hosts.
Publisher:
Acresso Software Inc.   (signed by National Consumer Panel)

Product:
InstallShield

Description:
InstallScript Setup Launcher

Version:
16.0.400

MD5:
946ba6ff33cd559bf56912ae8c68064b

SHA-1:
cafc2ae58645d011abe42cbdc797ea6473eb6730

SHA-256:
8c0b57ac313ab5f1b09601a37dc568c89161ab31efafcbd076106fb26b25f747

Scanner detections:
0 / 68

Status:
Clean (as of last analysis)

Analysis date:
7/4/2025 12:29:41 AM UTC  (today)

File size:
15.8 MB (16,588,984 bytes)

Product version:
16.0

Copyright:
Copyright (C) 2009 Acresso Software Inc. and/or InstallShield Co. Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Original file name:
Setup.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
InstallShield Setup

Language:
English (United States)

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
National Consumer Panel

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
12/2/2012 7:00:00 PM

Valid to:
2/1/2016 6:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=National Consumer Panel, OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O=National Consumer Panel, L=Syosset, 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:
0EE7299213D90BABCC928A8EEC14C1B6

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
9/21/2009 11:59:51 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
393216:qptMIm5fROLkbplYPK3OKTzUZSTbeR6PxMpI:qpWIm5pOA1l/LQebe2X

Entry address:
0x3D484

Entry point:
55, 8B, EC, 6A, FF, 68, 50, 85, 46, 00, 68, A8, F0, 43, 00, 64, A1, 00, 00, 00, 00, 50, 64, 89, 25, 00, 00, 00, 00, 83, EC, 58, 53, 56, 57, 89, 65, E8, FF, 15, 24, 73, 46, 00, 33, D2, 8A, D4, 89, 15, 88, DB, 47, 00, 8B, C8, 81, E1, FF, 00, 00, 00, 89, 0D, 84, DB, 47, 00, C1, E1, 08, 03, CA, 89, 0D, 80, DB, 47, 00, C1, E8, 10, A3, 7C, DB, 47, 00, 6A, 01, E8, 43, 38, 00, 00, 59, 85, C0, 75, 08, 6A, 1C, E8, C3, 00, 00, 00, 59, E8, 28, 15, 00, 00, 85, C0, 75, 08, 6A, 10, E8, B2, 00, 00, 00, 59, 33, F6, 89, 75...
 
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Entropy:
7.7380

Developed / compiled with:
Microsoft Visual C++ v6.0

Code size:
406.5 KB (416,256 bytes)

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

http://www.homescan.com/Homescan/SupportCenter/.../HITinstall.exe

http://www.ncponline.com/Homescan/SupportCenter/.../HITinstall.exe

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