need-for-speed-underground-2.exe

Tuguu SLU

The Tuguu download and install manager uses the DomalIQ installer to bundle additional adware offers such as toolbars and browser extensions during the setup process. This software distributes modified installers which are not the same as the original distributed by the author. The application need-for-speed-underground-2.exe by Tuguu SLU 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 TUGUU DomaIQ Setup installer.
Publisher:
Tuguu SLU  (signed and verified)

MD5:
b2b8f6875dd1e51a4a8e4f22a674c490

SHA-1:
ce05778d70cf508a0d3906daf729aebe621005e7

SHA-256:
ca16f1c6bb9b6850555075c2765ef00897c88b43979077113d94f134e9e434d9

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Adware

Explanation:
Bundles third-party components such as adware in the 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:
4/26/2024 1:54:00 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Tuguu.TuguuU.Bundler (M)
16.7.3.4

File size:
311.1 KB (318,568 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
TUGUU DomaIQ Setup

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\need-for-speed-underground-2.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:

Authority:
GlobalSign nv-sa

Valid from:
1/27/2014 6:19:17 AM

Valid to:
1/28/2015 6:19:17 AM

Subject:
E=victor.camacho@tuguu.com, CN=Tuguu SLU, OU=Tuguu S.L.U, O=Tuguu SLU, L=Adeje, S=Santa Cruz de Tenerife, C=ES

Issuer:
CN=GlobalSign CodeSigning CA - G2, O=GlobalSign nv-sa, C=BE

Serial number:
11216AFFC1DE70132006AD15B9EFFB99386B

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
1/29/2014 11:47:03 AM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
10.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
3072:Lk6y336SLWmpqVWNwXLXuvfxMmJGUFpTqRau6AKnOA2ys+9e+3c5kzdCMFFV0Dl2:Lxg36PWNw7XuBWmkeVd9wxpbY1

Entry address:
0x1576

Entry point:
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Code size:
30.5 KB (31,232 bytes)

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