hot! going to the mat.exe

Innovative Media Solutions

The application hot! going to the mat.exe by Innovative Media Solutions 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 Inno Setup installer. The file has been seen being downloaded from www.download-provider.org.
Publisher:
Innovative Media Solutions  (signed and verified)

MD5:
bd98e5899117cc5dad01fd5ccfd086a9

SHA-1:
d06cc3acd54382ee9dd5e6f2e80c56c625d1b4a2

SHA-256:
dd7abac5ccc14a314612cc09558e5c9d464c5e4c2ae33f7682c87dfe6e5bb962

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.

Analysis date:
7/4/2025 2:45:05 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.installCore (M)
16.9.20.1

File size:
578.7 KB (592,552 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
Inno Setup

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\hot! going to the mat.exe

Digital Signature
Authority:
COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:
8/28/2012 3:00:00 AM

Valid to:
8/29/2013 2:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=Innovative Media Solutions, O=Innovative Media Solutions, STREET="604, Tower A, New Trade Plaza, 6 On Ping Street", L=Hong Kong, S=Hong Kong, PostalCode=00852, C=HK

Issuer:
CN=COMODO Code Signing CA 2, O=COMODO CA Limited, L=Salford, S=Greater Manchester, C=GB

Serial number:
008999B0860A6DC61AA130342F5DD96B25

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
6/20/1992 1:22:17 AM

OS version:
1.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.25

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:uyMJfsl6CnjFZh+JUtNnOSujvNSq189JF1XWvxFL9cX0NwpGvZz7g/aTOm:uyMJfskCnhZh+AYuHWv3rwwvZPg/ax

Entry address:
0x98CC

Entry point:
55, 8B, EC, 83, C4, CC, 53, 56, 57, 33, C0, 89, 45, F0, 89, 45, DC, E8, FA, 97, FF, FF, E8, 01, AA, FF, FF, E8, 2C, CC, FF, FF, E8, 73, CC, FF, FF, E8, 0A, F3, FF, FF, E8, 71, F4, FF, FF, 33, C0, 55, 68, 76, 9F, 40, 00, 64, FF, 30, 64, 89, 20, 33, D2, 55, 68, 2C, 9F, 40, 00, 64, FF, 32, 64, 89, 22, A1, 14, B0, 40, 00, E8, 9B, FE, FF, FF, E8, 26, FA, FF, FF, 8D, 55, F0, 33, C0, E8, E0, D0, FF, FF, 8B, 55, F0, B8, D8, BD, 40, 00, E8, AB, 98, FF, FF, 6A, 02, 6A, 00, 6A, 01, 8B, 0D, D8, BD, 40, 00, B2, 01, B8...
 
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Entropy:
7.7963

Packer / compiler:
Inno Setup v5.x - Installer Maker

Code size:
36 KB (36,864 bytes)

The file hot! going to the mat.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

http://www.download-provider.org/.../download-z485424253.html?server=us

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