the insulin-resistance diet--revised and updated pdf.exe

Download Helper

Catalina Group Limited

The application the insulin-resistance diet--revised and updated pdf.exe by Catalina Group Limited has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. This is a setup program which is used to install the application. The file has been seen being downloaded from www.pdfebookds.com.
Publisher:
Catalina Group Limited  (signed and verified)

Product:
Download Helper

Version:
2, 5, 7, 0

MD5:
10f472c7da776d501280d549ba6240b0

SHA-1:
f22fd613b9b769fbcf87c8839b0d234bd367193c

SHA-256:
0c4a4a182fd1a21b55533420c675753b1d49943ec14f7b7cde32133cca2e0570

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

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.

Analysis date:
12/21/2025 9:01:44 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Catalina (M)
16.4.9.4

File size:
946.1 KB (968,776 bytes)

Product version:
2, 5, 7, 0

Copyright:
Copyright (C) 2013

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\the insulin-resistance diet--revised and updated pdf.exe

Digital Signature
Authority:
GoDaddy.com, Inc.

Valid from:
9/26/2012 10:56:54 PM

Valid to:
9/26/2013 10:56:54 PM

Subject:
CN=Catalina Group Limited, O=Catalina Group Limited, L=Kwun Tong, S=Hong Kong, C=HK

Issuer:
SERIALNUMBER=07969287, CN=Go Daddy Secure Certification Authority, OU=http://certificates.godaddy.com/repository, O="GoDaddy.com, Inc.", L=Scottsdale, S=Arizona, C=US

Serial number:
27B940A1704DC9

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
7/8/2013 10:37:36 AM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:4wrrUKuIE20sCYUQxEnZ4NGAARdYRUuBvh:4wrIKGsCYiZ6AuBJ

Entry address:
0xB03E

Entry point:
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Code size:
96 KB (98,304 bytes)

The file the insulin-resistance diet--revised and updated pdf.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.