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setup.exe

Acquinity Interactive, LLC

The application setup.exe by Acquinity Interactive 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 Nullsoft Install System installer.
Publisher:
Acquinity Interactive, LLC  (signed and verified)

MD5:
47077f8daae559ada91536c9bbfcbcff

SHA-1:
a8eba813a73f5df6d28e9e4ac0b922f6a1769b20

SHA-256:
c711236557e03cf150da6e25472c7fd161b292012cb081eea726344ef85f0a39

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.

Analysis date:
4/18/2024 5:36:15 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP (M)
17.2.23.17

File size:
406.6 KB (416,392 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
Nullsoft Install System

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Acquinity Interactive, LLC

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
6/6/2012 7:00:00 PM

Valid to:
6/7/2013 6:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN="Acquinity Interactive, LLC", OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O="Acquinity Interactive, LLC", L=Deerfield Beach, S=Florida, 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:
502A06C10C32412CA9214EC143B25048

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
8/30/2011 10:46:32 AM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.21

Entry address:
0x4131

Entry point:
55, 89, E5, 57, 56, 53, 81, EC, AC, 01, 00, 00, FF, 15, 74, 33, 43, 00, C7, 04, 24, 01, 80, 00, 00, FF, 15, 58, 34, 43, 00, 53, C7, 04, 24, 00, 00, 00, 00, FF, 15, 98, 34, 43, 00, 56, A3, F4, 17, 43, 00, C7, 04, 24, 08, 00, 00, 00, E8, 8B, 3B, 00, 00, A3, 50, 18, 43, 00, 8D, 85, 84, FE, FF, FF, 57, C7, 44, 24, 10, 00, 00, 00, 00, C7, 44, 24, 0C, 60, 01, 00, 00, 89, 44, 24, 08, C7, 44, 24, 04, 00, 00, 00, 00, C7, 04, 24, A9, B2, 40, 00, FF, 15, AC, 34, 43, 00, 83, EC, 14, C7, 44, 24, 04, AA, B2, 40, 00, C7...
 
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Entropy:
7.8560  (probably packed)

Code size:
33.5 KB (34,304 bytes)

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