setup.exe

Tuguu S.L.U.

The Tuguu download and install manager uses the DomalIQ installer to bundle additional adware offers such as toolbars and browser extensions during the setup process. This software distributes modified installers which are not the same as the original distributed by the author. The application setup.exe by Tuguu S.L.U 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.
Publisher:
Tuguu S.L.U.  (signed and verified)

MD5:
a0864e54771902d53054bfa16c236bb9

SHA-1:
bf036d5a6f4aabb02c11194a73f638c1146dcaef

SHA-256:
c8ee58c4c0b5e6c87f3e2b3d8a3a1d04ac978a2d9927ae0a592a00a3238188d0

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Adware

Explanation:
Bundles third-party components such as adware in the installer.

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 5:46:43 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Tuguu.TuguuU.Bundler (M)
15.12.29.20

File size:
447.4 KB (458,168 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
TUGUU DomaIQ Setup

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
8/27/2013 8:00:00 PM

Valid to:
8/27/2014 7:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Tuguu S.L.U., OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O=Tuguu S.L.U., L=Adeje, S=SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, C=ES

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:
21FCDE5EAE401DF690786A73C48E74F8

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
12/5/2013 1:22:12 PM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:7K7a7KUexh62phxB7wyxGV6Z/4N49cCrY10:jBe9tfGV6N4N4SQx

Entry address:
0xD171

Entry point:
E8, A8, 56, 00, 00, E9, 78, FE, FF, FF, 6A, 0C, 68, 88, 23, 42, 00, E8, E5, 22, 00, 00, 83, 65, E4, 00, 8B, 75, 08, 3B, 35, 70, 98, 42, 00, 77, 22, 6A, 04, E8, 93, 58, 00, 00, 59, 83, 65, FC, 00, 56, E8, 9A, 60, 00, 00, 59, 89, 45, E4, C7, 45, FC, FE, FF, FF, FF, E8, 09, 00, 00, 00, 8B, 45, E4, E8, F1, 22, 00, 00, C3, 6A, 04, E8, 8E, 57, 00, 00, 59, C3, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 56, 8B, 75, 08, 83, FE, E0, 0F, 87, A1, 00, 00, 00, 53, 57, 8B, 3D, 8C, D0, 41, 00, 83, 3D, 14, 85, 42, 00, 00, 75, 18, E8, FA, 4C, 00...
 
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Entropy:
7.3955

Code size:
112 KB (114,688 bytes)

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