setup.exe

Payments Interactive SL

This is the Tuguu DomaIQ download manager which bundles applications with offers for additional 3rd party software, mostly unwanted adware, and may be installed with minimal consent. The application setup.exe by Payments Interactive SL 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. The file has been seen being downloaded from mpdotrk.com.
Publisher:
Payments Interactive SL  (signed and verified)

MD5:
a3e775f3b1042e437f24bc77c61dac19

SHA-1:
260d32afaa3d3c0652ceab1c192435c5b77b1a92

SHA-256:
7fb9e0aeb314028fd42ec78dcdfb7116516606e4b527403f672d833d492cf7b5

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:
4/19/2024 12:02:05 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Tuguu.PaymentsInteractive.Bundler (M)
16.2.11.14

File size:
692 KB (708,592 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
TUGUU DomaIQ Setup

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

Digital Signature
Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
11/26/2013 9:00:00 PM

Valid to:
11/27/2014 8:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Payments Interactive SL, OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O=Payments Interactive SL, L=Puntagorda, S=Tenerife, 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:
4676DEB3B71CFE510351E4A3DF2A2E15

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
6/13/2014 8:19:41 AM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:VZMyBuoimq/sAaZrdKp8+9JzLdjzwnEG0SOs6b6jVciJe3d/znCJLi1TrHNbnS/P:bM8uoO4ZrdKp8+9Jz5/q9

Entry address:
0x2EED

Entry point:
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Code size:
100 KB (102,400 bytes)

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

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