samsung pl120 user guide provided through pdfretriever.com.exe

Gamma Installer

LiveSoftAction SRL

This is the SIEN AppScion Installer which bundles applications with offers for additional 3rd party software, mostly unwanted adware, and may be installed with minimal consent. The application samsung pl120 user guide provided through pdfretriever.com.exe by LiveSoftAction SRL 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 SIEN SuperInstall installer. The file has been seen being downloaded from stapi.trustinstaller.com.
Publisher:
Live Soft Action  (signed by LiveSoftAction SRL)

Product:
Gamma Installer

Version:
9.16.5.1

MD5:
a46d2b952b3beb7d3e08a50836603dee

SHA-1:
bbc8b8a21988d21f42c6ae250e02de8e1ee1894b

SHA-256:
74efe665e4352eeb53c8dd46f09caea30dccd3e2a8c0e4fd4a6d6ee33f016d29

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Adware

Note:
Our current pool of anti-malware engines have not currently detected this file, however based on our own detection heuristics we feel that this file is unwanted.

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 6:55:56 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Sien (M)
17.3.15.22

File size:
1.1 MB (1,179,552 bytes)

Product version:
9.16.5.1

Copyright:
(c) Live Soft Action. All rights reserved.

Original file name:
Setup.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
SIEN SuperInstall

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\samsung pl120 user guide provided through pdfretriever.com.exe

Digital Signature
Authority:
GlobalSign nv-sa

Valid from:
3/3/2015 12:24:08 PM

Valid to:
3/3/2016 12:24:08 PM

Subject:
CN=LiveSoftAction SRL, O=LiveSoftAction SRL, L=Bucuresti, C=RO

Issuer:
CN=GlobalSign CodeSigning CA - SHA256 - G2, O=GlobalSign nv-sa, C=BE

Serial number:
112115C730891244FB88071FE814148E0E53

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
4/17/2015 6:44:39 AM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
11.0

Entry address:
0x2DE740

Entry point:
60, BE, 00, 70, 5D, 00, 8D, BE, 00, A0, E2, FF, 57, EB, 0B, 90, 8A, 06, 46, 88, 07, 47, 01, DB, 75, 07, 8B, 1E, 83, EE, FC, 11, DB, 72, ED, B8, 01, 00, 00, 00, 01, DB, 75, 07, 8B, 1E, 83, EE, FC, 11, DB, 11, C0, 01, DB, 73, 0B, 75, 28, 8B, 1E, 83, EE, FC, 11, DB, 72, 1F, 48, 01, DB, 75, 07, 8B, 1E, 83, EE, FC, 11, DB, 11, C0, EB, D4, 01, DB, 75, 07, 8B, 1E, 83, EE, FC, 11, DB, 11, C9, EB, 52, 31, C9, 83, E8, 03, 72, 11, C1, E0, 08, 8A, 06, 46, 83, F0, FF, 74, 75, D1, F8, 89, C5, EB, 0B, 01, DB, 75, 07, 8B...
 
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Packer / compiler:
UPX v0.89.6 - v1.02 / v1.05 -v1.24

Code size:
1 MB (1,081,344 bytes)

The file samsung pl120 user guide provided through pdfretriever.com.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

http://stapi.trustinstaller.com/api/.../setup.exe