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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:
d5131d40e594c44ec233e0a2e8b6e02c

SHA-1:
a46f864151f892708f29a74ac8dc7f6e67d8bef4

SHA-256:
f99677517255fa229f668a322ffd0912eff0225b560cf4fdbb336285ddf570d5

Scanner detections:
2 / 68

Status:
Adware

Explanation:
This setup/installer bundles various adware components.

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:
4/24/2024 11:13:53 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Boost by Reason
Adware.Installer.PremiumInstaller.F
2013.7.31.21

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Installer.PremiumInstaller.F
14.8.8.3

File size:
1 MB (1,068,184 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:
7/29/2013 10:56:29 AM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

Entry address:
0x480C

Code size:
106.5 KB (109,056 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=7zip_bundle&subid=google_7zip-display-us-Informer-728x90-29489912566&user_id=e26dd524-b84f-446e-a916-d1e40bde93f7&thankYouUrl=www.softcapitol.com/ThankYou/7zip?source=google_7zip-display-us-Informer-728x90-29489912566&subid2=%7Bplacements%7D&userid=e26dd524-b84f-446e-a916-d1e40bde93f7&reason=complete&earlypop&cancelUrl=www.softcapitol.com/ThankYou/7zip?source=google_7zip-display-us-Informer-728x90-29489912566&subid2=%7Bplacements%7D&userid=e26dd524-b84f-446e-a916-d1e40bde93f7&adprovider=google_softcapitol.com&subid2=http://software-informer.software.informer.com/download/&subid3={placements}

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