setup.exe

Premium Installer

This adware bundler is distributed through Adknowledge's advertising supported software managers. The application setup.exe by Premium Installer has been detected as adware by 25 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the Adknowledge Fusion installer. The file has been seen being downloaded from secure.oinstaller9.com and multiple other hosts.
Publisher:
InstallManager  (signed by Premium Installer)

Description:
InstallManager

Version:
2, 1, 0, 0

MD5:
26e8ae8e81c32219fc80145300e5e2b6

SHA-1:
12f1ceb4cbebd4f4e341d01545f69e75b0875bb2

SHA-256:
4c38c69dbc58e10acd1cfceeea4e02693a635346bb2cc46aa6ae70892b06c10b

Scanner detections:
25 / 68

Status:
Adware

Explanation:
This setup/installer bundles various adware components.

Description:
This 'download manager' is also considered bundleware, a utility designed to download software (possibly legitimate or opensource) and bundle it with a number of optional offers including ad-supported utilities, toolbars, shopping comparison tools and browser extensions.

Analysis date:
4/26/2024 3:02:04 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Agnitum Outpost
Adware.Agent
7.1.1

AhnLab V3 Security
Trojan/Win32.Buzus
14.09.24

Avira AntiVirus
Adware/iBryte.afc
7.11.150.176

avast!
Installer-K [PUP]
2014.9-140923

AVG
Generic5
2015.0.3342

Comodo Security
Application.Win32.iBryte.M
18306

Dr.Web
Adware.Downware.1450
9.0.1.0266

ESET NOD32
Win32/AdWare.iBryte.K.gen application
8.7.0.302.0

Fortinet FortiGate
Riskware/PremiumInstaller
9/24/2014

F-Prot
W32/A-6d9fc912
v6.4.7.1.166

herdProtect (fuzzy)
2014.12.6.0

IKARUS anti.virus
Trojan.Win32.Buzus
t3scan.1.6.1.0

K7 AntiVirus
Riskware
13.178.12140

Kaspersky
not-a-virus:AdWare.Win32.iBryte
14.0.0.3205

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.IBryte
v2014.09.24.02

NANO AntiVirus
Trojan.Win32.Downware.csnqdm
0.28.0.59921

nProtect
Trojan-Clicker/W32.iBryte.1069208
14.05.20.01

Panda Antivirus
PUP/MultiToolbar.A
14.09.24.02

Qihoo 360 Security
Malware.QVM10.Gen
1.0.0.1015

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Installer.PremiumInstaller.F
14.9.23.22

Rising Antivirus
PE:Adware.iBryte!1.980C
23.00.65.14922

Vba32 AntiVirus
BScope.Malware-Cryptor.iBryte
3.12.26.0

VIPRE Antivirus
Threat.4778314
29418

Zillya! Antivirus
Trojan.Buzus.Win32.118270
2.0.0.1795

File size:
1 MB (1,069,208 bytes)

Product version:
2, 1, 0, 0

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
Adknowledge Fusion

Language:
English (United States)

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

Digital Signature
Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
7/12/2013 5:00:00 PM

Valid to:
8/2/2014 4:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Premium Installer, OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O=Premium Installer, L=Wilmington, S=Delaware, C=US

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:
35BB74B905C01CE61DA131BA49337F33

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
8/28/2013 9:32:22 AM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:OqqwKO2JhwtnKqRnrgcCzCUPfJsb3hNmXJ16zLcuqYqp:v7KfrwtnKEnrgrzCU3Jsb3hEXv6/qn

Entry address:
0x3BFC

Entry point:
E8, 7B, 2F, 00, 00, E9, 78, FE, FF, FF, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 83, EC, 20, 8B, 45, 08, 56, 57, 6A, 08, 59, BE, 54, B2, 41, 00, 8D, 7D, E0, F3, A5, 89, 45, F8, 8B, 45, 0C, 5F, 89, 45, FC, 5E, 85, C0, 74, 0C, F6, 00, 08, 74, 07, C7, 45, F4, 00, 40, 99, 01, 8D, 45, F4, 50, FF, 75, F0, FF, 75, E4, FF, 75, E0, FF, 15, 44, B0, 41, 00, C9, C2, 08, 00, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 51, 53, 8B, 45, 0C, 83, C0, 0C, 89, 45, FC, 64, 8B, 1D, 00, 00, 00, 00, 8B, 03, 64, A3, 00, 00, 00, 00, 8B, 45, 08, 8B, 5D, 0C, 8B, 6D, FC, 8B, 63...
 
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Entropy:
6.9128

Code size:
103.5 KB (105,984 bytes)

The file setup.exe has been seen being distributed by the following 2 URLs.

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