stellarium.exe

Apps Installer SL

This is the Solimba installer program that will bundle additional offers mostly including adware and various unwanted PC utilities. The application stellarium.exe by Apps Installer SL has been detected as adware by 18 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the Solimba DownloadMR installer. The installer uses the Solimba download manager to push adware offers during the download and setup process. Bundled adware includes search and shopping web browser toolbars. It is also typically executed from an Internet Explorer cache folder. While running, it connects to the Internet address cdn.solimba.com on port 80 using the HTTP protocol.
Publisher:
Apps installer  (signed by Apps Installer SL)

Description:
installer tawl

Version:
3.1.10.24

MD5:
eb306a4d2bc8d364e8f95a4dfd85cb6c

SHA-1:
5b02a833162e2c5283fbc953fafd0398628b8e72

SHA-256:
a517235501994eb8c3307d615867fce7493c8afbb5d07ca57f586fcc23147d76

Scanner detections:
18 / 68

Status:
Adware

Explanation:
Uses the Solimba installer to bundle adware offers.

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:
5/18/2024 4:05:06 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler.1
1023

Agnitum Outpost
PUA.Firseria
7.1.1

avast!
Win32:Installer-AR [PUP]
2014.9-140417

AVG
BundleApp
2015.0.3488

Bitdefender
Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler.1
1.0.20.535

Emsisoft Anti-Malware
Gen:Variant.Jaik.1395
8.14.04.17.09

ESET NOD32
Win32/FirseriaInstaller (variant)
8.9703

F-Secure
Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler
11.2014-17-04_5

G Data
Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler
14.4.24

herdProtect (fuzzy)
2014.7.6.23

K7 AntiVirus
Trojan
13.176.11833

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.AppsInstaller
v2014.04.30.10

MicroWorld eScan
Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler.1
15.0.0.321

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Installer.AppsInstallerSL.K
14.8.1.0

Rising Antivirus
PE:Malware.FirseriaInstaller!6.17AF
23.00.65.14415

Sophos
Solimba Installer
4.98

Vba32 AntiVirus
Downware.Morstar
3.12.26.0

VIPRE Antivirus
DownloadMR
28462

File size:
499.3 KB (511,248 bytes)

Product version:
3.1.9

Copyright:
Copyright © 2014

Original file name:
installer_setup.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
Solimba DownloadMR

Language:
Language Neutral

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\microsoft\windows\temporary internet files\content.ie5\{random}\stellarium.exe

Digital Signature
Authority:
GlobalSign nv-sa

Valid from:
1/24/2014 12:38:03 PM

Valid to:
1/25/2015 12:38:03 PM

Subject:
CN=Apps Installer SL, O=Apps Installer SL, L=Badalona, S=Barcelona, C=ES

Issuer:
CN=GlobalSign CodeSigning CA - G2, O=GlobalSign nv-sa, C=BE

Serial number:
1121CBDE0E20D87673EA3438EEEB8A63BE19

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
4/17/2014 1:13:43 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
10.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:+NgOFKT+Md0kVEt8a2Ok5pDZ1gVA1IuoBjWhbE:+NxFKT+bkVEQHfdWV0IVjsY

Entry address:
0xEF14

Entry point:
E8, C2, 78, 00, 00, E9, 89, FE, FF, FF, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 83, EC, 20, 8B, 45, 08, 56, 57, 6A, 08, 59, BE, 90, F4, 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, 38, F1, 41, 00, C9, C2, 08, 00, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 8B, 45, 08, 33, C9, 3B, 04, CD, 60, 64, 42, 00, 74, 13, 41, 83, F9, 2D, 72, F1, 8D, 48, ED, 83, F9, 11, 77, 0E, 6A, 0D, 58, 5D, C3, 8B, 04, CD, 64...
 
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Code size:
117 KB (119,808 bytes)

The executing file has been seen to make the following network communications in live environments.

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to cdn.solimba.com  (95.211.6.35:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to api.downloadmr.com  (95.211.39.161:80)

 
http://api.downloadmr.com/installer/12183735/launch

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