player_setup.exe

Tuguu S.L

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 player_setup.exe by Tuguu 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 TUGUU DomaIQ Setup installer.
Publisher:
Tuguu S.L  (signed and verified)

MD5:
7fdcb2e2362d5ae5233a1114f4bee004

SHA-1:
9f6cff8c3d3b6dc22d388aeb14fab596c8e0462c

SHA-256:
78ddd4e9e2c4f0868e969dfab903f44009db68ba7f591562ef1ab016b1f0a5c9

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 1:22:08 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Tuguu.TuguuSL.Bundler (M)
16.2.14.10

File size:
838.5 KB (858,624 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
TUGUU DomaIQ Setup

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:

Authority:
GlobalSign nv-sa

Valid from:
12/3/2013 9:13:51 AM

Valid to:
12/4/2014 9:13:51 AM

Subject:
E=victor.camacho@tuguu.com, CN=Tuguu S.L, O=Tuguu S.L, L=Adeje, S=Tenerife, C=ES

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

Serial number:
1121111958C6091E136AAD058195A273968F

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
5/12/2014 11:12:15 AM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
11.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:RCXvkXVg8IBjLvl8NLrcgIHMlNCQQUivUqzxmmPCiR/n6YdkxAv:AvQERvWxrctHMlNCQQUi8ohVn6Y+xQ

Entry address:
0x2F85

Entry point:
E8, 4E, 2D, 00, 00, E9, 39, FE, FF, FF, E9, DE, 18, 00, 00, FF, 35, 58, A5, 42, 00, FF, 15, 80, B0, 41, 00, C3, FF, 35, 58, A5, 42, 00, FF, 15, 80, B0, 41, 00, 85, C0, 74, 02, FF, D0, 6A, 19, E8, AB, 24, 00, 00, 6A, 01, 6A, 00, E8, 12, 36, 00, 00, 83, C4, 0C, E9, 29, 36, 00, 00, 55, 8B, EC, 56, FF, 35, 58, A5, 42, 00, FF, 15, 80, B0, 41, 00, FF, 75, 08, 8B, F0, FF, 15, 7C, B0, 41, 00, A3, 58, A5, 42, 00, 8B, C6, 5E, 5D, C3, 55, 8B, EC, 83, EC, 10, EB, 0D, FF, 75, 08, E8, 35, 39, 00, 00, 59, 85, C0, 74, 0F...
 
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Entropy:
6.4903

Code size:
103.5 KB (105,984 bytes)

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