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Big Water Applications, LLC

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 Big Water Applications has been detected as adware by 17 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 dl.spyguardapp.com.
Publisher:
Big Water Applications, LLC  (signed and verified)

MD5:
5af1d9a9c7e1af3477e419663420593b

SHA-1:
4abb72fa525442d61a7288ea17858fd86d084568

SHA-256:
11e16f53f6121c4310d071ff589a7c1e48cdace198a1f944551eeb413e222b73

Scanner detections:
17 / 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:
4/26/2024 7:49:47 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Agnitum Outpost
PUA.PullUpdate
7.1.1

Avira AntiVirus
ADWARE/Adware.Gen
7.11.182.172

avast!
Win32:BHO-AMO [PUP]
2014.9-141031

Dr.Web
Adware.Plugin.128
9.0.1.0304

ESET NOD32
MSIL/Adware.PullUpdate
8.10653

Fortinet FortiGate
Adware/PullUpdate
10/31/2014

IKARUS anti.virus
PUA.Toolbar.WebApp
t3scan.1.8.3.0

K7 AntiVirus
Trojan
13.185.13866

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.InfoSeeker.A
v2014.10.31.08

McAfee
Artemis!40CF73292FF8
5600.6960

NANO AntiVirus
Trojan.Win32.Generic.cymwjj
0.28.6.62995

Norman
Malware
11.20141031

Qihoo 360 Security
Malware.QVM10.Gen
1.0.0.1015

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Installer.BigWaterApplications.F
14.10.31.19

Sophos
Generic PUA FK
4.98

Trend Micro House Call
Suspici.320869A0
7.2.304

VIPRE Antivirus
Injekt
34416

File size:
4 MB (4,218,256 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Big Water Applications, LLC

Authority:
COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:
4/21/2013 7:00:00 PM

Valid to:
4/22/2014 6:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN="Big Water Applications, LLC", O="Big Water Applications, LLC", STREET=640 Grand Ave, STREET=Suite E, L=Carlsbad, S=CA, PostalCode=92008, C=US

Issuer:
CN=COMODO Code Signing CA 2, O=COMODO CA Limited, L=Salford, S=Greater Manchester, C=GB

Serial number:
0088DD6A4DF46D819C84B9E99D7A0530C5

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
6/6/2009 4:41:59 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
98304:5m3G85RskNbYYUekamTlVWAblpdllrEildFCEKUlpo:FsRskN2e8rVblprlrEYFwIo

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:
7.9858

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://dl.spyguardapp.com/SpyGuard/29602/.../Setup.exe

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