setup.exe

Payments Interactive SL

This is the Tuguu DomaIQ download manager which bundles applications with offers for additional 3rd party software, mostly unwanted adware, and may be installed with minimal consent. The application setup.exe by Payments Interactive SL 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. The file has been seen being downloaded from mpdotrk.com.
Publisher:
Payments Interactive SL  (signed and verified)

MD5:
f323abe25af8a532cf2d4ffe586a4fb4

SHA-1:
fe13ee44ccad1803342c3af0807ef44484b986af

SHA-256:
47d32c0bf8bd04dfa9e6204b5971a57c862698e8a27c516ec5910c7152c1732e

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:
4/19/2024 9:37:01 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Tuguu.PaymentsInteractive.Bundler (M)
16.1.24.18

File size:
462.5 KB (473,576 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
TUGUU DomaIQ Setup

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

Digital Signature
Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
11/26/2013 10:00:00 PM

Valid to:
11/27/2014 9:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Payments Interactive SL, OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O=Payments Interactive SL, L=Puntagorda, S=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:
4676DEB3B71CFE510351E4A3DF2A2E15

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
6/11/2014 2:24:14 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
11.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
6144:UD1u3zGYC6Fqp8+I9JvcP5JRcpBCpVXIBElQVeRbp3Ms6YR:uuaYISnJU7R8YpVXIBEX3MsH

Entry address:
0x4CC9

Entry point:
E8, 70, 3A, 00, 00, E9, 39, FE, FF, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 83, 7D, 08, 00, 74, 2D, FF, 75, 08, 6A, 00, FF, 35, AC, A5, 42, 00, FF, 15, 68, C0, 41, 00, 85, C0, 75, 18, 56, E8, 3B, 13, 00, 00, 8B, F0, FF, 15, 4C, C0, 41, 00, 50, E8, 86, 13, 00, 00, 59, 89, 06, 5E, 5D, C3, 55, 8B, EC, 56, 8B, 75, 0C, 57, 33, FF, 85, F6, 74, 1B, 6A, E0, 33, D2, 58, F7, F6, 3B, 45, 10, 73, 0F, E8, 08, 13, 00, 00, C7, 00, 0C, 00, 00, 00, 33, C0, EB, 3C, 0F, AF, 75, 10, 53, 8B, 5D, 08, 85, DB, 74, 09, 53, E8, A5, 0B, 00, 00, 59, 8B, F8...
 
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Code size:
105.5 KB (108,032 bytes)

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

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