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setup.exe

Premium Installer

This is published and distributed via an Adknowledge's advertising supported (adware) software installer. The application setup.exe by Premium Installer has been detected as adware by 2 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the Adknowledge Fusion installer. The file has been seen being downloaded from install2.optimum-installer.com and multiple other hosts.
Publisher:
Premium Installer  (signed and verified)

MD5:
3214256c4426ae4db49c5e65c94a239c

SHA-1:
4f87ada1f4d586031aa63561968313a564e05b5e

SHA-256:
025d146210a754993b226b951668c7cc143037c2620a83e8fa00d877b5b046d7

Scanner detections:
2 / 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:
4/19/2024 1:43:59 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Boost by Reason
Adware.Installer.PremiumInstaller.F
2013.8.4.12

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Installer.PremiumInstaller.F
14.8.8.3

File size:
1 MB (1,065,624 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
Adknowledge Fusion

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Premium Installer

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:
8/2/2013 6:40:41 AM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:G5zsezvLMJC+eGekJexWkm8JIDqVraNiAgi4CICr83GvERT/4Z:krkvtex9m8J2qVraNJgi4CICrWGvERT6

Entry address:
0x417C

Code size:
105 KB (107,520 bytes)

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

http://install2.optimum-installer.com/o/.../Setup.exe

http://install2.optimum-installer.com/o/.../Setup.exe?filedescription=Setup&subid=google_7-zip-display-DE-300x250-29464285626&user_id=f58c96a4-fe78-408d-b99a-b57decd88320&thankYouUrl=http://ec2-23-20-136-159.compute-1.amazonaws.com/ThankYou/7zip?source=google_7-zip-display-DE-300x250-29464285626&subid1=software&subid2=should-i-remove-it.soft32.com&userid=f58c96a4-fe78-408d-b99a-b57decd88320&reason=complete&earlypop&cancelUrl=http://ec2-23-20-136-159.compute-1.amazonaws.com/ThankYou/7zip?source=google_7-zip-display-DE-300x250-29464285626&subid1=software&subid2=should-i-remove-it.soft32.com&userid=f58c96a4-fe78-408d-b99a-b57decd88320&adprovider=google_downloads.net&subid2=software&subid3=should-i-remove-it.soft32.com

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