photo sphere.exe

Contumar Empresarial s.l.

This belongs to a Solimba product that may be bundled with additional PUPs or may be part of an ad-supported software program. The application photo sphere.exe by Contumar Empresarial s.l 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 Solimba DownloadMR installer. It uses the Solimba download manager to push adware offers during the download and setup process. Bundled adware includes search and shopping web browser toolbars.
Publisher:
Contumar Empresarial s.l.  (signed and verified)

MD5:
447c6deb006428d72b6adae6b5221853

SHA-1:
815f31ea391601059d98c8a5c99ba76456a437c1

SHA-256:
0971f4f4827be96c59fe4de8eb5d7179c07b6d856f8977ec52210cde954323ee

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Adware

Explanation:
Uses the Solimba installer to bundle adware offers.

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:
5/6/2024 3:05:31 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Solimba.ContumarEmpresarial (M)
16.2.2.0

File size:
675.1 KB (691,296 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
Solimba DownloadMR

Language:
Language Neutral

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

Digital Signature
Authority:
GlobalSign nv-sa

Valid from:
2/2/2015 12:00:38 PM

Valid to:
9/24/2016 12:00:25 PM

Subject:
CN=Contumar Empresarial s.l., O=Contumar Empresarial s.l., L=Barcelona, S=Barcelona, C=ES

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

Serial number:
112119FE6AFB4FA7129F4F594CD3E07D5B21

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
6/18/2015 10:20:10 AM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
12.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:ijTPlGaJY8jGOIf0B4wGPWlnTXSIYWkGiIM6P4IuViSZp+o+GI3TTulejKV3ft:QTPlGoyf0B4Z+dTixJIMV/+9TTu4uV31

Entry address:
0x118B4

Entry point:
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Code size:
141 KB (144,384 bytes)

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