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00000d34t8setup.exe

Mindspark Interactive Network

This is the installer stub for the Mindspark (/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 00000d34t8setup.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. It is also typically executed from the user's temporary directory.
Publisher:
Mindspark Interactive Network  (signed and verified)

MD5:
43cedcacdc35e4e8a003ed9b13ae8b1d

SHA-1:
094fee07ca0c14adfb9d3dbc1aacdaeea44e5c39

SHA-256:
c0e1501eeda1234b5764eb7a990904746ed5a6a88a1c2097285ec62e635c3561

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:
5/13/2024 1:02:08 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Mindspark (M)
17.3.16.4

File size:
11.2 MB (11,725,192 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
Mindspark Custom Setup

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\temp\00000d34t8setup.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Mindspark Interactive Network

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
4/10/2012 2:00:00 AM

Valid to:
5/7/2015 1:59:59 AM

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:
7/24/2014 2:45:10 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

Entry address:
0x40DB

Entry point:
55, 8B, EC, 83, EC, 44, 53, 56, 6A, 00, FF, 15, A4, 50, 40, 00, A3, 54, EB, 40, 00, FF, 15, A0, 50, 40, 00, 8B, 1D, 9C, 50, 40, 00, 8B, F0, 85, F6, 75, 04, 6A, FF, FF, D3, 8A, 06, 57, 8B, 3D, 38, 51, 40, 00, 3C, 22, 75, 1B, 56, FF, D7, 8B, F0, 8A, 06, 3C, 22, 74, 04, 84, C0, 75, F1, 80, 3E, 22, 75, 15, 56, FF, D7, 8B, F0, EB, 0E, 3C, 20, 7E, 0A, 56, FF, D7, 8B, F0, 80, 3E, 20, 7F, F6, 8A, 06, 84, C0, 74, 04, 3C, 20, 7E, E1, 83, 65, E8, 00, 8D, 45, BC, 50, FF, 15, 98, 50, 40, 00, E8, 2D, 00, 00, 00, F6, 45...
 
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Developed / compiled with:
Microsoft Visual C++

Code size:
16 KB (16,384 bytes)

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