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City Tone

The application setup.exe by City Tone 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 Tomorrow Software Installer installer. It is also typically executed from an Internet Explorer cache folder. The file has been seen being downloaded from files4.downloadnet1184.com.
Publisher:
Positive On-Tap Install  (signed by City Tone)

Product:
Positive On-Tap Install

Version:
91.4.9.7232

MD5:
3c0213cb1bf2abd708931e6f9f8aacd2

SHA-1:
e30ad74f9c3002d1cbadb97e5ee5a0bf01e18483

SHA-256:
9820dd47811d9ff63816ffdae530b305c3b4486791526bf6469be2585e2822ed

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:
5/5/2024 10:22:01 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.TomorrowSoftware.CityTone.Bundler (M)
16.2.16.21

File size:
874.9 KB (895,872 bytes)

Product version:
91.4.9.7232

Copyright:
Copyright (C) 2015

Original file name:
setup.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
Tomorrow Software Installer

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\microsoft\windows\temporary internet files\content.ie5\{random}\setup.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
City Tone

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
6/22/2015 5:00:00 PM

Valid to:
6/22/2016 4:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=City Tone, O=City Tone, L=San Francisco, S=California, 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:
74FE0833A1587E49ED3DD971F1C8C3B2

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
8/9/2014 5:46:17 AM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:9EMLKmtvPyHu7kyymfNpgy9pNg4W7HM83cN+2QHCCT:SiKmHyOIfmfNp6p7s8uQ7

Entry address:
0xC822

Entry point:
E8, 3C, 05, 00, 00, E9, 57, FD, FF, FF, CC, CC, CC, CC, 51, 8D, 4C, 24, 04, 2B, C8, 1B, C0, F7, D0, 23, C8, 8B, C4, 25, 00, F0, FF, FF, 3B, C8, 72, 0A, 8B, C1, 59, 94, 8B, 00, 89, 04, 24, C3, 2D, 00, 10, 00, 00, 85, 00, EB, E9, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 81, EC, 28, 03, 00, 00, A3, A8, 4B, 41, 00, 89, 0D, A4, 4B, 41, 00, 89, 15, A0, 4B, 41, 00, 89, 1D, 9C, 4B, 41, 00, 89, 35, 98, 4B, 41, 00, 89, 3D, 94, 4B, 41, 00, 66, 8C, 15, C0, 4B, 41, 00, 66, 8C, 0D, B4, 4B, 41, 00, 66, 8C, 1D, 90, 4B, 41, 00, 66, 8C, 05, 8C...
 
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Entropy:
7.9585  (probably packed)

Code size:
51.5 KB (52,736 bytes)

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

http://files4.downloadnet1184.com/download/.../dl?bc=1190419&pid=adknowledge&brand=adknowledge.com&aid=adk&s=Fwint_Informer_Informer_adsrep300X250usdisplaydefault&c=informer_fwint&country=EG&osName=Windows&osVersion=7&browserName=IE&browserVersion=11&cb=-1773697377&filename=Setup.exe&productKey=pxstuqhunypuksckro35teklu4xe4fmq&zTmp=1&executable=1188367

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