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setup.exe

Interesting Solutions

The software will display additional offers (such as adware) during installation including a browser toolbar/extension as well as advertising injection software (part of the Injekt brand). The application setup.exe by Interesting Solutions has been detected as adware by 16 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) installer. The file has been seen being downloaded from e46m3.vanoshield.com.
Publisher:
Interesting Solutions  (signed and verified)

MD5:
688e4ec6802a93c1a67b6d66c769d89b

SHA-1:
40295e0d2c515be16f17f9890ad17d2938ba553a

SHA-256:
b05073e0eda8f10da347f45d586aba2dee33e0a68f59999b6e7dbca04f1b04e3

Scanner detections:
16 / 68

Status:
Adware

Explanation:
Injects display ads (banner ads), in-text ads, interstitial ads, or other types of ads in the web browser as well as alters the browsers settings (home page, search, DNS, and security protocols).

Analysis date:
4/30/2024 5:08:15 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Gen:Variant.Adware.Jatif.98
690

Avira AntiVirus
ADWARE/Adware.Gen7
7.11.214.114

Baidu Antivirus
Adware.MSIL.PullUpdate
4.0.3.15316

Bitdefender
Gen:Variant.Adware.Jatif.98
1.0.20.375

Emsisoft Anti-Malware
Gen:Variant.Adware.Jatif.98
8.15.03.16.04

ESET NOD32
MSIL/Adware.PullUpdate.J.gen (variant)
9.11281

Fortinet FortiGate
Adware/PullUpdate
3/16/2015

F-Secure
Gen:Variant.Adware.Jatif
11.2015-16-03_2

G Data
Gen:Variant.Adware.Jatif.98
15.3.25

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.WebGuard.A
v2015.03.16.04

McAfee
Artemis!688E4EC6802A
5600.6824

MicroWorld eScan
Gen:Variant.Adware.Jatif.98
16.0.0.225

Qihoo 360 Security
HEUR/QVM42.0.Malware.Gen
1.0.0.1015

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Installer.Injekt
15.3.16.16

Sophos
Pull Update
4.98

VIPRE Antivirus
Injekt
38182

File size:
4.5 MB (4,741,576 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)

Language:
Language Neutral

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\microsoft\windows\inetcache\content.ie5\lq5lzsds\setup.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Interesting Solutions

Authority:
Symantec Corporation

Valid from:
2/19/2015 12:00:00 AM

Valid to:
4/20/2016 12:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=Interesting Solutions, O=Interesting Solutions, L=St. James, S=St. James, C=BB

Issuer:
CN=Symantec Class 3 SHA256 Code Signing CA, OU=Symantec Trust Network, O=Symantec Corporation, C=US

Serial number:
65BAC0C20EBC1780150DDA8808B0161A

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
6/6/2009 10:41:59 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
98304:Mfo1kJEetpuPQAHcIRAmNtMXGhvPVHLNwNoU7KyCLRU1Pm7vGNMxte:MgReQjAmwXGhvPNhgd7yRU1PeGNMx8

Entry address:
0x30FA

Entry point:
81, EC, 80, 01, 00, 00, 53, 55, 56, 33, DB, 57, 89, 5C, 24, 18, C7, 44, 24, 10, 60, 91, 40, 00, 33, F6, C6, 44, 24, 14, 20, FF, 15, 30, 70, 40, 00, 68, 01, 80, 00, 00, FF, 15, B0, 70, 40, 00, 53, FF, 15, 7C, 72, 40, 00, 6A, 08, A3, 18, EC, 42, 00, E8, F1, 2B, 00, 00, A3, 64, EB, 42, 00, 53, 8D, 44, 24, 34, 68, 60, 01, 00, 00, 50, 53, 68, 98, 8F, 42, 00, FF, 15, 58, 71, 40, 00, 68, 54, 91, 40, 00, 68, 60, E3, 42, 00, E8, A4, 28, 00, 00, FF, 15, AC, 70, 40, 00, BF, 00, 40, 43, 00, 50, 57, E8, 92, 28, 00, 00...
 
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Entropy:
7.9828

Packer / compiler:
Nullsoft install system v2.x

Code size:
23.5 KB (24,064 bytes)

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

http://e46m3.vanoshield.com/wg/.../Setup.exe

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