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setup.exe

Acute Angle Solutions Ltd.

The software will display additional offers (such as adware) during installation including a browser toolbar/extension as well as advertising injection software (part of the Injekt brand). The application setup.exe by Acute Angle Solutions has been detected as adware by 23 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) installer. It is also typically executed from an Internet Explorer cache folder.
Publisher:
Acute Angle Solutions Ltd.  (signed and verified)

MD5:
80d309c1d66ab56d4ff2e2bf766e4aca

SHA-1:
f1b32a5d20b9328ae690a57e5350a18a6a13ce40

Scanner detections:
23 / 68

Status:
Adware

Explanation:
Injects display ads (banner ads), in-text ads, interstitial ads, or other types of ads in the web browser as well as alters the browsers settings (home page, search, DNS, and security protocols).

Analysis date:
4/26/2024 11:51:11 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Adware.PullUpdate.E
833

Agnitum Outpost
PUA.PullUpdate
7.1.1

Avira AntiVirus
Adware/PullUpdate.E.9
7.11.180.228

AVG
Acute
2015.0.3311

Baidu Antivirus
Adware.MSIL.PullUpdate
4.0.3.141024

Bitdefender
Adware.PullUpdate.E
1.0.20.1485

Emsisoft Anti-Malware
Adware.PullUpdate
8.14.10.24.04

ESET NOD32
MSIL/Adware.PullUpdate
8.10610

Fortinet FortiGate
Adware/PullUpdate
10/24/2014

F-Secure
Adware.PullUpdate.E
11.2014-24-10_6

G Data
Adware.PullUpdate
14.10.24

K7 AntiVirus
Adware
13.184.13741

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.CometArcade.A
v2014.10.24.04

McAfee
Artemis!80D309C1D66A
5600.6967

MicroWorld eScan
Adware.PullUpdate.E
15.0.0.891

nProtect
Adware.PullUpdate.E
14.10.23.01

Qihoo 360 Security
Win32/Virus.Adware.ed2
1.0.0.1015

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Installer.AcuteAngleSolutions.F
14.10.24.16

Sophos
Pull Update
4.98

Trend Micro House Call
TROJ_GEN.R00GC0OJG14
7.2.297

Trend Micro
TROJ_GEN.R00GC0OJG14
10.465.24

VIPRE Antivirus
Injekt
34190

Zillya! Antivirus
Adware.PullUpdate.Win32.129
2.0.0.1966

File size:
3.9 MB (4,123,192 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)

Language:
Language Neutral

Common path:
C:\Documents and Settings\{user}\Local settings\temporary internet files\content.ie5\{random}\setup.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Acute Angle Solutions Ltd.

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
1/30/2014 7:00:00 PM

Valid to:
1/31/2015 6:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Acute Angle Solutions Ltd., OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O=Acute Angle Solutions Ltd., L=St. James, S=St. James, C=BB

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:
0A7A77148C6F7A33F9174DA187F6FEF0

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
6/6/2009 5:41:48 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
49152:TNbYY7L26PjcCh0xqzgWmJ4W6IjtbW3VS9pf/QbGcWrRh9MW8DASvGIfB1GrkNUb:hYEVZ0xy99uW3VSKG7yWJu73GcPlyVB

Entry address:
0x30CB

Entry point:
81, EC, 80, 01, 00, 00, 53, 55, 56, 33, DB, 57, 89, 5C, 24, 18, C7, 44, 24, 10, 60, 91, 40, 00, 33, F6, C6, 44, 24, 14, 20, FF, 15, 30, 70, 40, 00, 68, 01, 80, 00, 00, FF, 15, B0, 70, 40, 00, 53, FF, 15, 7C, 72, 40, 00, 6A, 08, A3, 38, 3F, 42, 00, E8, F1, 2B, 00, 00, A3, 84, 3E, 42, 00, 53, 8D, 44, 24, 34, 68, 60, 01, 00, 00, 50, 53, 68, 30, F4, 41, 00, FF, 15, 58, 71, 40, 00, 68, 54, 91, 40, 00, 68, 80, 36, 42, 00, E8, A4, 28, 00, 00, FF, 15, AC, 70, 40, 00, BF, 00, 90, 42, 00, 50, 57, E8, 92, 28, 00, 00...
 
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Entropy:
7.9793

Packer / compiler:
Nullsoft install system v2.x

Code size:
22.5 KB (23,040 bytes)

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