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installer_ares.exe

Vittalia Limited

This is the Vittalia Filewon Installer which bundles applications with offers for additional 3rd party software, mostly unwanted adware, and may be installed with minimal consent. The application installer_ares.exe by Vittalia Limited 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 Vittalia DM installer. The file has been seen being downloaded from ares.com.es.
Publisher:
Vittalia Limited  (signed and verified)

MD5:
f1b7d61a6210cadab8db261a7db338bd

SHA-1:
f87114c42854e3e4abe90a0f601b0edf3381b288

SHA-256:
e279b82dfda8fb0a4c078d4eb7074b34ebcdc40f1b2a8797df9b16f1d12d261e

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Adware

Explanation:
Bundles additional software, mostly toolbars and other potentially unwanted applications using the Vittalia monitization installer.

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:
4/23/2024 8:01:59 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Vittalia.Bundler (M)
16.6.10.4

File size:
4.5 MB (4,674,616 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
Vittalia DM

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Vittalia Limited

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
5/17/2013 7:00:00 PM

Valid to:
5/17/2016 6:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Vittalia Limited, OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O=Vittalia Limited, L=Dublin, S=Dublin, C=IE

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:
6CC8DB30E67B3DF9E2607EE882D390AC

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
6/12/2014 8:11:34 AM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
11.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
49152:5ZqD+yLZJ4WbPr20RHbY88AP27y6mIBQE4B9K1j:587A

Entry address:
0x1E5FB

Entry point:
E8, C3, B0, 00, 00, E9, 00, 00, 00, 00, 6A, 14, 68, E0, 19, 44, 00, E8, DF, 3F, 00, 00, E8, 52, 36, 00, 00, 0F, B7, F0, 6A, 02, E8, 56, B0, 00, 00, 59, B8, 4D, 5A, 00, 00, 66, 39, 05, 00, 00, 40, 00, 74, 04, 33, DB, EB, 33, A1, 3C, 00, 40, 00, 81, B8, 00, 00, 40, 00, 50, 45, 00, 00, 75, EB, B9, 0B, 01, 00, 00, 66, 39, 88, 18, 00, 40, 00, 75, DD, 33, DB, 83, B8, 74, 00, 40, 00, 0E, 76, 09, 39, 98, E8, 00, 40, 00, 0F, 95, C3, 89, 5D, E4, E8, 8A, 71, 00, 00, 85, C0, 75, 08, 6A, 1C, E8, DC, 00, 00, 00, 59, E8...
 
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Entropy:
6.3724

Code size:
202 KB (206,848 bytes)

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

http://ares.com.es/down_extra.php

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