suf_launch.exe

CursorMania

Mindspark Interactive Network

This is the installer stub for the Mindspark (Mindspark Interactive Network/Ask) browser toolbar which provides the offer to the end user to install the toolbar and set the browser's search, home page and new tab to an Ask.com search destination. The application suf_launch.exe, “CursorMania Setup” by Mindspark Interactive Network has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 5 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the Setup Factory installer. This version of the installer will bundle a Mindspark/MyWebSearch Toolbar, a potentially unwanted web browser extension.
Publisher:
Mindspark Interactive Network  (signed and verified)

Product:
CursorMania

Description:
CursorMania Setup

Version:
1.0.0.3

MD5:
bfddff2c1b9ba4717ff680799bac568d

SHA-1:
a7ecd8136470846ff96e20aa8e47177e4693e221

SHA-256:
da025edc3c8be9354f4e8aace8667a739f610e879a90db3fd93e5f29652a0ecc

Scanner detections:
5 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Explanation:
Bundles the Mindspark (MyWebSearch/Ask) toolbar, a web browser extension that will modify a user's search and home pages.

Analysis date:
4/26/2024 8:42:53 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

avast!
Win32:Mindspark-A [PUP]
2014.9-140412

AVG
Zango
2015.0.3507

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Installer.MindsparkInteractiveNetwork.K
14.8.8.2

Trend Micro House Call
TROJ_GEN.F47V1222
7.2.102

VIPRE Antivirus
28196

File size:
1.9 MB (2,010,904 bytes)

Product version:
1.0.0.1

Copyright:
© 2013 Mindspark Interactive Network, Inc. An IAC Company. All rights reserved.

Trademarks:
® & ™ Mindspark Interactive Network, Inc. An IAC Company. All rights reserved.

Original file name:
suf_launch.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
Setup Factory

Language:
English (United States)

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

Digital Signature
Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
4/9/2012 8:00:00 PM

Valid to:
5/6/2015 7:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Mindspark Interactive Network, OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O=Mindspark Interactive Network, L=White Plains, S=NewYork, C=US

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:
098417F7EA6406EC7B320590E17A65B7

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
8/27/2013 3:10:44 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
10.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
49152:7R2X6pymME2HAD/W5Rsleo+PWcea0d6uIccpT69KdezjA:7hIm0gDHMxJ0d6uxcQ9jA

Entry address:
0x29E1

Entry point:
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Entropy:
7.8179  (probably packed)

Code size:
22 KB (22,528 bytes)

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