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unzipappsetup.exe

UnzipApp

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 unzipappsetup.exe by Mindspark Interactive Network has been detected as a potentially unwanted program 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 Mindspark Custom Setup installer.

File name:

unzipappsetup.exe

Publisher:

Mindspark Interactive Network (signed and verified)

Product:

UnzipApp

Description:

UnzipApp Setup

Version:

1.2.0.465

MD5:

3963051341f27d6bbd8a305753b76ccd

SHA-1:

7b06d1dfc988c62b18c7d2a4595d09b976940fd5

SHA-256:

d8738d831dc7a0f33401d94411232997388d8b0a49a07a32bac8e54b1549f6e0

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.

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:

5/16/2025 7:58:11 PM UTC (today)

Scan engine

Detection

Engine version

Reason Heuristics

PUP.Mindspark.Bundler (M)

16.4.12.21

File size:

4.4 MB (4,624,752 bytes)

Product version:

1.2.0.465

Trademarks:

Original file name:

suf_launch.exe

File type:

Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:

Mindspark Custom Setup

Language:

English (United States)

Common path:

C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\microsoft\windows\inetcache\ie\{random}\unzipappsetup.exe

Digital Signature

Signed by:

Mindspark Interactive Network

Authority:

VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:

4/19/2015 5:00:00 PM

Valid to:

6/18/2018 4:59:59 PM

Subject:

CN=Mindspark Interactive Network, O=Mindspark Interactive Network, L=Yonkers, S=New York, 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:

438D4291E43C2DFFEEAAAEE5B6C070B5

File PE Metadata

Compilation timestamp:

8/27/2013 12:10:44 PM

OS version:

5.1

OS bitness:

Win32

Subsystem:

Windows GUI

Linker version:

10.0

CTPH (ssdeep):

98304:PhIm0gDHMxJEd6uxcqwC9d/G4x8x1UGomgkUinzEdjrz/Ij4T7sLRFzEqP9:5ImhCe6uGfC9d//gev1ktnUE9zZ

Entry address:

0x29E1

Entry point:

E8, A6, 1D, 00, 00, E9, 89, FE, FF, FF, 8B, FF, 56, 57, 33, F6, BF, C8, AB, 40, 00, 83, 3C, F5, 54, A0, 40, 00, 01, 75, 1D, 8D, 04, F5, 50, A0, 40, 00, 89, 38, 68, A0, 0F, 00, 00, FF, 30, 83, C7, 18, FF, 15, C0, 70, 40, 00, 85, C0, 74, 0C, 46, 83, FE, 24, 7C, D3, 33, C0, 40, 5F, 5E, C3, 83, 24, F5, 50, A0, 40, 00, 00, 33, C0, EB, F1, 8B, FF, 53, 8B, 1D, C4, 70, 40, 00, 56, BE, 50, A0, 40, 00, 57, 8B, 3E, 85, FF, 74, 13, 83, 7E, 04, 01, 74, 0D, 57, FF, D3, 57, E8, 18, FD, FF, FF, 83, 26, 00, 59, 83, C6, 08... 
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Entropy:

7.9224 (probably packed)

Code size:

22 KB (22,528 bytes)

The file unzipappsetup.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

http://ak.dl.unzipapp.com/images/nocache/vicinio/executable-packages/UnzipApp/.../UnzipAppSetup.exe

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