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install-openoffice-2.exe

Goluba

CPC Net adVertising llc

The installer utilizes the installCore download manager which may bundle additional offers for various ad-supported toolbars, extensions and utilities. The application install-openoffice-2.exe, “Goluba Setup ” by CPC Net adVertising llc 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 installCore installer. With this installer, users are expecting to download the free Apache OpenOffice but before that occurs they may be presented with additional offers, mostly potentially unwanted software or adware.
Publisher:
CPC Net adVertising llc  (signed and verified)

Product:
Goluba

Description:
Goluba Setup

Version:
2.0.1.1

MD5:
ff273bbf7e6dc490ae7686c304810dfe

SHA-1:
f38f5140fe93aaa6a0481fbb38a99d8cc84dab27

SHA-256:
bd8667787ab28a6d178c3f506a68ff941042f9d46b73c3712c99657cb70cd7d4

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:
5/19/2024 2:04:18 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.installCore (M)
17.2.21.7

File size:
944.5 KB (967,208 bytes)

Product version:
3.2.3

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
installCore (using Inno Setup)

Language:
Language Neutral

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\install-openoffice-2.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
CPC Net adVertising llc

Authority:
thawte, Inc.

Valid from:
4/14/2016 2:00:00 AM

Valid to:
4/15/2017 1:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=CPC Net adVertising llc, OU=IT, O=CPC Net adVertising llc, L=Wilmington, S=Delaware, C=US

Issuer:
CN=thawte SHA256 Code Signing CA, O="thawte, Inc.", C=US

Serial number:
3A1AFB5694D65DFB7794393E557E5340

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
6/20/1992 12:22:17 AM

OS version:
1.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.25

Entry address:
0xA5F8

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

Code size:
39.5 KB (40,448 bytes)

The file install-openoffice-2.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

http://www.tourapplicationslaboratory.com/WVl6OTRQV2hFSlRKR2NsbERaVm93V0c1TFRHSm1WME16U0NVeVFtWkxkRE5QYWpGUWJYTjVZM2NsTWtZM1lYaFRVRGtsTWtZbE1rSXdKVE5FSm1NOWRURlpNek5DSlRKQ2FuZzVkVU5WTWtRek5GWWxNa0pzZFNVeVJtNXNURk5YVkhjM2RqVlBOelZhWVd4MmJIUlROemQxZDJ0cE5GRTJXbU5TTVdOSWJYWXdOVXBzWjI1eVpGVkpTemRtTTFjMVVUSlhPR1p6V0hKUk1WaEJSM05EUWtzMWNWQmtORVp4U1ZwUU1uTk9WR2s1Y0RZek9HdFpTbHBFZFVoRlZsTjFWMnh6YlVRbVptRnNiR0poWTJ0ZmRYSnNQVVpoYkd4aVlXTnJLMVZTVENaa2IzZHViRzloWkVGelBXbHVjM1JoYkd3dGIzQmxibTltWm1salpTMHlMbVY0WlE9PQ==

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