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:
e8a2eb6d4ae274c5e734a5f2960cee00

SHA-1:
e729c93174d0e71f7198e0ca2a0ef2e23ebd65ba

SHA-256:
277f6ef64409fcb42de48dbf154537eee23d6b329140a698be999609b477bf77

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:
4/26/2024 6:03:03 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Tuguu.TuguuU.Bundler (M)
16.5.3.7

File size:
447.4 KB (458,136 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 6:00:00 PM

Valid to:
2/8/2014 5:59:59 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:
12/5/2013 12:22:12 PM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:TK7a7KUexh62phxB7wyxGV6Z/4N49cCrSd:rBe9tfGV6N4N4SQg

Entry address:
0xD171

Entry point:
E8, A8, 56, 00, 00, E9, 78, FE, FF, FF, 6A, 0C, 68, 88, 23, 42, 00, E8, E5, 22, 00, 00, 83, 65, E4, 00, 8B, 75, 08, 3B, 35, 70, 98, 42, 00, 77, 22, 6A, 04, E8, 93, 58, 00, 00, 59, 83, 65, FC, 00, 56, E8, 9A, 60, 00, 00, 59, 89, 45, E4, C7, 45, FC, FE, FF, FF, FF, E8, 09, 00, 00, 00, 8B, 45, E4, E8, F1, 22, 00, 00, C3, 6A, 04, E8, 8E, 57, 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, 8C, D0, 41, 00, 83, 3D, 14, 85, 42, 00, 00, 75, 18, E8, FA, 4C, 00...
 
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Entropy:
7.3953

Code size:
112 KB (114,688 bytes)

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