ultimate_media_player_setup.exe

Premium Installer

This adware bundler is distributed through Adknowledge's advertising supported software managers. The application ultimate_media_player_setup.exe, “Ultimate Media Player Setup ” by Premium Installer 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 Adknowledge Fusion installer. The file has been seen being downloaded from install.optimuminstaller.com.
Publisher:
Premium Installer  (signed and verified)

Product:
Premium Installer

Description:
Ultimate Media Player Setup

Version:
1.0.1.0

MD5:
a6e285b26ff5d10ffff314de2b525320

SHA-1:
1f4ebfbd7c83dd0093e235b1b31da7d2155c49f8

SHA-256:
4a6a0ecbca73e3197f5dc63361c09a346d3aa27a1b94dd6dd7d85b30c86f1477

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Adware

Explanation:
This setup/installer bundles various adware components.

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:
4/25/2024 10:26:04 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Adknowledge.PremiumInstaller.Installer (M)
15.12.31.9

File size:
212.8 KB (217,896 bytes)

Product version:
1.0.1.0

Copyright:
Premium Installer

Original file name:
BootStrapper.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
Adknowledge Fusion

Language:
Language Neutral

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

Digital Signature
Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
7/11/2012 8:00:00 PM

Valid to:
7/12/2013 7:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Premium Installer, OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O=Premium Installer, L=Wilmington, S=Delaware, 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:
706520EBEF7703A74B71E96735FFEA17

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
10/2/2012 3:26:09 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

.NET CLR dependent:
Yes

CTPH (ssdeep):
6144:ghdi8Vi34Hf5BoucPPqe5kEIOxKKpdpN2u/KvcC9M7p5EU:ghZo34Hf5BoucPPqe5kEIOxKKpdp4W33

Entry address:
0x2ECCE

Entry point:
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Entropy:
5.6144

Developed / compiled with:
Microsoft Visual C# / Basic .NET

Code size:
179.5 KB (183,808 bytes)

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