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popsetup.exe

Harzing's Publish or Perish

Tarma Software Research Pty Ltd

The executable popsetup.exe has been detected as malware by 1 anti-virus scanner. The program is a setup application that uses the Tarma Installer installer.
Publisher:
Tarma Software Research Pty Ltd  (signed and verified)

Product:
Harzing's Publish or Perish

Description:
Installer

Version:
2012.8.31.933

MD5:
7b83bccaff23e739dc63d9128072aaee

SHA-1:
959ca30340787bb990ce731563740ee7f5434e33

SHA-256:
f18f81f7aa0b5ac2bb7fa560d0ccd93a30fd3480b2f01083f40a26aa40834c62

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Malware

Explanation:
Uses Web-Pick's 'File Product', an Installer which wraps various products and downloads and installs it silently through the process, hosted on TusFiles.

Analysis date:
4/16/2024 5:12:15 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
Threat.Win.Reputation.IMP
17.1.31.9

File size:
812.7 KB (832,208 bytes)

Product version:
3.7.4626

Copyright:
© 1990-2012 Tarma Software Research Pty Ltd

Original file name:
TSULoader.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
Tarma Installer

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Tarma Software Research Pty Ltd

Authority:
Thawte, Inc.

Valid from:
5/17/2012 2:00:00 AM

Valid to:
8/6/2014 1:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=Tarma Software Research Pty Ltd, OU=DEVELOPMENT, O=Tarma Software Research Pty Ltd, L=Melbourne, S=Victoria, C=AU

Issuer:
CN=Thawte Code Signing CA - G2, O="Thawte, Inc.", C=US

Serial number:
1F88FBE23C3B9E102A5F728D86E7AC12

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
7/28/2012 4:31:25 AM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
8.0

Entry address:
0x14A3

Entry point:
55, 8B, EC, 81, EC, 24, 06, 00, 00, 53, 56, 33, F6, 57, 66, 89, B5, E4, FB, FF, FF, 89, 75, F4, 89, 75, FC, FF, 15, 68, 30, 40, 00, A3, 08, 44, 40, 00, FF, 15, 64, 30, 40, 00, 89, 45, F8, 68, 04, 01, 00, 00, 8D, 85, DC, F9, FF, FF, 50, 56, FF, 15, 60, 30, 40, 00, 85, C0, 75, 41, FF, 15, 5C, 30, 40, 00, 83, F8, 78, 75, 1A, 68, BC, 32, 40, 00, E8, 82, FB, FF, FF, 59, C7, 05, 0C, 44, 40, 00, FD, 00, 00, 00, E9, 13, 02, 00, 00, 50, 68, 98, 32, 40, 00, E8, 67, FB, FF, FF, 59, 59, C7, 05, 0C, 44, 40, 00, FF, 00...
 
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Developed / compiled with:
Microsoft Visual C++

Code size:
7.5 KB (7,680 bytes)

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