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 1phads.com.
Publisher:
Payments Interactive SL  (signed and verified)

MD5:
9960d8bbf8e8a736f3d5b9712df0fe85

SHA-1:
88713f7ced9106582facd48690a3a7aa004eba48

SHA-256:
cfa97f217edfaf41e22d495caf347710d992cb56a5fd91d1446e9a223a34ba3f

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:
4/18/2024 7:31:31 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Tuguu.PaymentsInteractive.Bundler (M)
16.2.20.2

File size:
454.6 KB (465,504 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
TUGUU DomaIQ Setup

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

Digital Signature
Authority:
DigiCert Inc

Valid from:
10/15/2013 2:00:00 AM

Valid to:
12/19/2014 1:00:00 PM

Subject:
CN=Payments Interactive SL, O=Payments Interactive SL, L=Puntagorda, S=Santa Cruz de Tenerife / Canarias, C=ES

Issuer:
CN=DigiCert Assured ID Code Signing CA-1, OU=www.digicert.com, O=DigiCert Inc, C=US

Serial number:
060CE3456FDDB3F98DA9EDA1B876842F

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
1/17/2014 6:50:27 PM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
6144:5vaqS4IR/kviXzd45seH6zdi69hxMwjPVl0x55TurrU41APIJgU6Xozwdab0BXl4:0/kviXzdcH6N9h/Vl45aPU4EEkdBb4

Entry address:
0xC4D7

Entry point:
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Code size:
110.5 KB (113,152 bytes)

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

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