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hotspot shield 3.42 provided through www.phpnuke.org.exe

RapidInstaller

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 hotspot shield 3.42 provided through www.phpnuke.org.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. The file has been seen being downloaded from www.staticbucket.com.
Publisher:
LIVE SOFT ACTION  (signed by SIEN Internet Products Ltd)

Product:
RapidInstaller

Version:
9.5.1.1

MD5:
f3ba6bb696b8356cb56c40f86d95fa9d

SHA-1:
01fd753affc9e5786505db6ae1c2e027dbe44b28

SHA-256:
d077e9c4884d1df8a8faee37339dda26c2a8f06b9159164a77a3f689434c2c2f

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 'download manager' is also considered bundleware, a utility designed to download software (possibly legitimate or opensource) and bundle it with a number of optional offers including ad-supported utilities, toolbars, shopping comparison tools and browser extensions.

Analysis date:
4/29/2024 9:15:15 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Sien.SIENInte.Bundler (M)
16.6.18.1

File size:
713 KB (730,112 bytes)

Product version:
9.5.1.1

Copyright:
(c) LIVE SOFT ACTION. All rights reserved.

Original file name:
Setup.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
SIEN SuperInstall

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\hotspot shield 3.42 provided through www.phpnuke.org.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
SIEN Internet Products Ltd

Authority:
GlobalSign nv-sa

Valid from:
7/2/2014 8:16:26 PM

Valid to:
7/3/2015 8:16:26 PM

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:
1121B65276582BE3F0926659AF0E1E5D895A

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
1/26/2015 10:08:22 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
11.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:5uwH0EdRhXLxu5BMZ9TtN7gZXwmB6klSyBuuNZDQ64EV+YGETrrkTqy90Ii:5u6ZdRh1MSZtcdwmQ6FBuuNhhxATqyri

Entry address:
0x1B2F10

Entry point:
60, BE, 00, 90, 51, 00, 8D, BE, 00, 80, EE, FF, 57, 83, CD, FF, EB, 10, 90, 90, 90, 90, 90, 90, 8A, 06, 46, 88, 07, 47, 01, DB, 75, 07, 8B, 1E, 83, EE, FC, 11, DB, 72, ED, B8, 01, 00, 00, 00, 01, DB, 75, 07, 8B, 1E, 83, EE, FC, 11, DB, 11, C0, 01, DB, 73, 0B, 75, 28, 8B, 1E, 83, EE, FC, 11, DB, 72, 1F, 48, 01, DB, 75, 07, 8B, 1E, 83, EE, FC, 11, DB, 11, C0, EB, D4, 01, DB, 75, 07, 8B, 1E, 83, EE, FC, 11, DB, 11, C9, EB, 52, 31, C9, 83, E8, 03, 72, 11, C1, E0, 08, 8A, 06, 46, 83, F0, FF, 74, 75, D1, F8, 89...
 
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Entropy:
7.8998

Packer / compiler:
UPX 2.90LZMA

Code size:
620 KB (634,880 bytes)

The file hotspot shield 3.42 provided through www.phpnuke.org.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

https://www.staticbucket.com/astapi/api/.../setup.exe

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