player_setup.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 player_setup.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:
ef7340ecd275782ccc3ae166d9e03e3a

SHA-1:
fc0a919109d080ef9bf2510c4b1b3017a0c53bda

SHA-256:
70bb4f4ae6278ae79bbccce3128a72604782c802d031d262b4a2f44cc4234003

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:
4/29/2024 1:20:22 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Tuguu.TuguuU.Bundler (M)
16.6.12.18

File size:
447.4 KB (458,160 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:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
2/7/2013 10:00:00 PM

Valid to:
2/8/2014 9:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Tuguu SLU, OU=N/A, OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O=Tuguu SLU, L=Adeje, S=Santa Cruz de Tenrife, C=ES

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:
552127982028C352ADDA5CA8F6C0BAE7

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
12/5/2013 4:22:12 PM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:rK7a7KUexh62phxB7wyxGV6Z/4N49cCrP:TBe9tfGV6N4N4SQP

Entry address:
0xD171

Entry point:
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Code size:
112 KB (114,688 bytes)

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