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setup.exe

Premium Installer

This adware bundler is distributed through Adknowledge's advertising supported software managers. The application setup.exe by Premium Installer has been detected as adware by 25 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the Adknowledge Fusion installer. The file has been seen being downloaded from cpadominator.com.
Publisher:
Premium Installer  (signed and verified)

MD5:
e5bef6419db778d938ac690facf7fd18

SHA-1:
edbf700646efdfd9d5f93bde58ad103153fb3a06

SHA-256:
ab489e29614119aea99ab62d280cc0863e5a6e79d5757daf59d7bd6bb5fe9db8

Scanner detections:
25 / 68

Status:
Adware

Explanation:
This setup/installer bundles various adware components.

Description:
This 'download manager' is also considered bundleware, a utility designed to download software (possibly legitimate or opensource) and bundle it with a number of optional offers including ad-supported utilities, toolbars, shopping comparison tools and browser extensions.

Analysis date:
4/20/2024 5:07:57 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Agnitum Outpost
Trojan.Inject
7.1.1

AhnLab V3 Security
Adware/Win32.IBryte
2015.03.07

Avira AntiVirus
Adware/iBryte.L
7.11.214.140

avast!
PUP-gen [PUP]
2014.9-150306

AVG
Trojan horse Generic34
2016.0.3178

Bkav FE
W32.HfsAdware
1.3.0.6379

Comodo Security
Application.Win32.iBryte.M
21317

Dr.Web
Adware.Downware.1374, Adware.Downware.1479
9.0.1.065

ESET NOD32
Win32/AdWare.iBryte.K.gen application
9.7.0.302.0

Fortinet FortiGate
Riskware/PremiumInstaller
3/6/2015

F-Prot
W32/Ibryte.D.gen
v6.4.6.5.141

G Data
Win32.Adware.Ibryte.AB
15.3.25

herdProtect (fuzzy)
variant of p9hjzpyb.exe.part (Adware)
2015.6.13.10

IKARUS anti.virus
Trojan.Win32.Inject
t3scan.1.8.6.0

K7 AntiVirus
Trojan
13.184.13741

Kaspersky
not-a-virus:AdWare.Win32.iBryte
14.0.0.2386

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.IBryte.A
v2015.03.06.07

NANO AntiVirus
Trojan.Win32.Downware.cssqfh
0.30.0.296

nProtect
Trojan/W32.Agent.1066648
14.10.22.01

Panda Antivirus
PUP/MultiToolbar.A
15.03.06.07

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Bundler.Adknowledge
15.3.6.19

Rising Antivirus
PE:Trojan.Buzus!6.D6
23.00.65.15304

Sophos
PUA 'iBryte Optimum Installer'
5.11

VIPRE Antivirus
Threat.4150696
33706

Zillya! Antivirus
Adware.iBryte.Win32.552
2.0.0.2090

File size:
1 MB (1,066,648 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 6:00:00 PM

Valid to:
8/2/2014 5:59:59 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:
8/12/2013 2:40:20 PM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:lfPiCyaTj3fJs9oQC1kgpB3SmcN6H06nJ6LQcweZgFfNMXa7GUwLOVCLUZZsomGZ:VLsSQC1kgpB3SmZU6nJ6LQcfZgFfNMXg

Entry address:
0x452C

Entry point:
E8, 7B, 2F, 00, 00, E9, 78, FE, FF, FF, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 83, EC, 20, 8B, 45, 08, 56, 57, 6A, 08, 59, BE, 54, C2, 41, 00, 8D, 7D, E0, F3, A5, 89, 45, F8, 8B, 45, 0C, 5F, 89, 45, FC, 5E, 85, C0, 74, 0C, F6, 00, 08, 74, 07, C7, 45, F4, 00, 40, 99, 01, 8D, 45, F4, 50, FF, 75, F0, FF, 75, E4, FF, 75, E0, FF, 15, 44, C0, 41, 00, C9, C2, 08, 00, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 51, 53, 8B, 45, 0C, 83, C0, 0C, 89, 45, FC, 64, 8B, 1D, 00, 00, 00, 00, 8B, 03, 64, A3, 00, 00, 00, 00, 8B, 45, 08, 8B, 5D, 0C, 8B, 6D, FC, 8B, 63...
 
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Entropy:
6.9432

Code size:
106 KB (108,544 bytes)

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

http://cpadominator.com/.../index.php?g=mplayeradcbz&src=ADC&kw=82869&lp=4

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