openoffice_setup.exe

Advertiso GmbH

The installer utilizes the installCore download manager which may bundle additional offers for various ad-supported toolbars, extensions and utilities. The application openoffice_setup.exe by Advertiso GmbH 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 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:
Advertiso GmbH  (signed and verified)

MD5:
a804f5624d189a0426a4161003ab49e6

SHA-1:
4ef633660d67e6975fd5b9df421ce40aff2a3525

SHA-256:
cd1449044dfd7c4c2419cec7831c625fc00eae926032b4ed76c6bfa27d519cb1

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 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:
4/19/2024 8:23:54 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.installCore.Advertis.Installer (M)
16.7.12.22

File size:
661.9 KB (677,832 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
installCore (using Inno Setup)

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:

Authority:
COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:
10/28/2013 1:00:00 AM

Valid to:
10/29/2014 12:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=Advertiso GmbH, O=Advertiso GmbH, STREET=Kiebitzhof 1a, L=Hamburg, S=Hamburg, PostalCode=22089, C=DE

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

Serial number:
5E967C83796D144C896154F79240904C

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

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:qlFacukBrI/yn5s5+Z0n7y3UW2Co3megw9ijAjINIkMo/ICkhvOps5e:qlFpe6n58Y3OFWe6A0NrnkhvOpue

Entry address:
0x9C40

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

Code size:
37 KB (37,888 bytes)

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