setup_v2.exe

Tuguu SLU

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_v2.exe by Tuguu SLU 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 SLU  (signed and verified)

MD5:
26f832d1e04dfeef1dfbd33ee0e77ab0

SHA-1:
0ca7802567bb3efe8952feda64b0940674692da1

SHA-256:
8fc611f18fb48c8696fe4b6e225a78bdaefd2161c80476923bc9288f6eaace9a

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:
4/19/2024 10:06:35 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Tuguu.TuguuU.Bundler (M)
16.1.6.7

File size:
507.4 KB (519,608 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
TUGUU DomaIQ Setup

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\setup_v2.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
2/7/2013 7:00:00 PM

Valid to:
2/8/2014 6:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Tuguu SLU, OU=N/A, OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O=Tuguu SLU, L=Adeje, S=Santa Cruz de Tenrife, 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:
552127982028C352ADDA5CA8F6C0BAE7

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
12/13/2013 6:55:29 AM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:ZhWGS92iz3lpWgDfZrltgO+LEarjR5vGE:zS9/zDZrltt+Lpr/uE

Entry address:
0xD141

Entry point:
E8, CB, 63, 00, 00, E9, 78, FE, FF, FF, 6A, 0C, 68, 08, 43, 42, 00, E8, C5, 04, 00, 00, 83, 65, E4, 00, 8B, 75, 08, 3B, 35, 58, A8, 42, 00, 77, 22, 6A, 04, E8, B6, 65, 00, 00, 59, 83, 65, FC, 00, 56, E8, BD, 6D, 00, 00, 59, 89, 45, E4, C7, 45, FC, FE, FF, FF, FF, E8, 09, 00, 00, 00, 8B, 45, E4, E8, D1, 04, 00, 00, C3, 6A, 04, E8, B1, 64, 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, 80, F0, 41, 00, 83, 3D, 1C, A5, 42, 00, 00, 75, 18, E8, 71, 5C, 00...
 
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Entropy:
7.4372

Code size:
119.5 KB (122,368 bytes)

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