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playpickle-setup.exe

Download Admin

This is the Tightrope WebInstall which bundles applications with offers for additional 3rd party software, mostly unwanted adware, and may be installed with minimal consent. The application playpickle-setup.exe by Download Admin has been detected as adware by 8 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the Tightrope WebInstall installer. The file has been seen being downloaded from files4.mirror1.info and multiple other hosts.
Publisher:
Download Admin  (signed and verified)

MD5:
83f0d9e8a74a78fd9f0bad776c9e59d7

SHA-1:
48e9b70a342f14e23b5b5ecb552271ab5ee38616

SHA-256:
94edfff94303d757067a416d85d3e0b5e8e80580f3c615ab52c65ccfbb72d586

Scanner detections:
8 / 68

Status:
Adware

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 12:46:55 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Avira AntiVirus
ADWARE/Adware.Gen9
7.11.176.238

Dr.Web
Adware.Downware.411
9.0.1.05190

ESET NOD32
Win32/DownloadAdmin.G potentially unwanted application
7.0.302.0

F-Secure
Adware:W32/WebInstallBundle
11.2014-06-10_2

NANO AntiVirus
Riskware.Win32.Downware.crgjbr
0.28.2.62440

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Installer.DownloadAdmin.Q
14.10.6.10

Sophos
Download Admin
4.98

VIPRE Antivirus
Threat.4783369
33706

File size:
736.1 KB (753,720 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
Tightrope WebInstall (using Nullsoft Install System)

Language:
Language Neutral

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\playpickle-setup.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Download Admin

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
4/2/2010 8:00:00 PM

Valid to:
5/29/2013 7:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Download Admin, OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O=Download Admin, L=San Francisco, S=California, C=US

Issuer:
CN=VeriSign Class 3 Code Signing 2009-2 CA, OU=Terms of use at https://www.verisign.com/rpa (c)09, OU=VeriSign Trust Network, O="VeriSign, Inc.", C=US

Serial number:
29529B0D185F8525A92A866D4A38DA3A

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
6/22/2012 2:07:51 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
10.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:ixpJqtO8e2yB8T1UgnrFQAEsEV4kK+ONxY5NaXyNmpShWnUDffhuyANjR:Op0e23T3pMsEVqNxempvnUDHhANjR

Entry address:
0x333B

Entry point:
81, EC, 80, 01, 00, 00, 53, 55, 56, 33, DB, 57, 89, 5C, 24, 18, C7, 44, 24, 10, B0, 73, 40, 00, 33, F6, C6, 44, 24, 14, 20, FF, 15, 30, 70, 40, 00, 68, 01, 80, 00, 00, FF, 15, C0, 70, 40, 00, 53, FF, 15, 88, 72, 40, 00, 6A, 08, A3, B8, 3C, 42, 00, E8, 2C, 25, 00, 00, 53, 68, 60, 01, 00, 00, A3, C0, 3B, 42, 00, 8D, 44, 24, 38, 50, 53, 68, 43, 74, 40, 00, FF, 15, 64, 71, 40, 00, 68, 38, 74, 40, 00, 68, C0, 33, 42, 00, E8, 1D, 24, 00, 00, FF, 15, BC, 70, 40, 00, 50, BF, 00, 90, 42, 00, 57, E8, 0B, 24, 00, 00...
 
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Entropy:
7.4041

Packer / compiler:
Nullsoft install system v2.x

Code size:
23 KB (23,552 bytes)

The file playpickle-setup.exe has been seen being distributed by the following 3 URLs.

http://files4.mirror1.info/download?s=kitara&c=kitara_playpickle&brand=playpickle.com&pid=Kitara&aid=4721ISM&bc=463769&country=US&cb=-2050119

http://files4.mirror1.info/download?s=kitara&c=kitara_playpickle&brand=playpickle.com&pid=Kitara&aid=4721ISM&bc=463769&country=US&cb=926657583

http://files4.mirror1.info/download?s=kitara&c=kitara_playpickle&brand=playpickle.com&pid=Kitara&aid=4721ISM&bc=463769&country=US&cb=1785126336

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