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setup.exe

File Setup LCC

This is the Softpulse installer 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 File Setup LCC 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 Softpulse SoftwareBundler installer. The file has been seen being downloaded from az852137.vo.msecnd.net.
Publisher:
File Setup LCC  (signed and verified)

MD5:
ea83c4c54959f800085ed6285e161c9f

SHA-1:
34bc890ec5f5cb21bf9d181b6fbd493e2c3967b3

SHA-256:
3f908df4cee540da91f17bbc85acb8eb8289917db5a9bfe8bf3adb4c6415a62b

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:
5/1/2024 10:56:31 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Softpulse (M)
17.3.7.8

File size:
634.8 KB (650,072 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
Softpulse SoftwareBundler

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
File Setup LCC

Authority:
COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:
2/15/2015 10:00:00 PM

Valid to:
2/16/2016 9:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=File Setup LCC, O=File Setup LCC, STREET="501 Silverside Road, Suite 105", L=Wilmington, S=Delaware, PostalCode=19809, C=US

Issuer:
CN=COMODO RSA Code Signing CA, O=COMODO CA Limited, L=Salford, S=Greater Manchester, C=GB

Serial number:
0629F30DCECC62A8E72B47625BD36601

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
1/18/2016 7:02:20 PM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

Entry address:
0x1A4770

Entry point:
60, BE, 00, 10, 51, 00, 8D, BE, 00, 00, EF, 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:
592 KB (606,208 bytes)

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

http://az852137.vo.msecnd.net/MTIzNDU2Nzg5MDEyMzQ1NpxHwFKAOiKh6Fm0ZBWiiJtF-n6vW1_eiCTODp1fjgfdKLy49cPf3xo7RK9968OZ6nlGE83kMv2KA_0kqOSjUjny428cQ-BN3RVGzk8OtH-LPz1dkZQWuTEoeaSCUj4hINqsXZScXa3S9syHAE0OSYFajmYjnVy_QQXnkzp9G85Sf_lGMgjS6x09YrqQOpERoM8MUXVs26LOKsN9s5a1btOzy0dmM8bpbKhM6yDkfh3ikJRdlcVmvii1M0NV3TpA5zmT-HZbnDjMdHUWl5aVWMXf3nOXC91-fKRhiJha_01O3yz8CFbjM4NtMK7fmS1oG2tnIvk81Y0pi3DB1sJbpqgmxkzaEigCJr_bc47M_8ZY5P7vCkrhXa-JsYOOG5E3rkKvoxkkzMnSWt3JzMtTM-2tY5ZHP2GGv36gUOPoCtWIkKRU-3lJ_9WPS0_XnOKDMw==

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