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Finance Alert

Valid Applications

The software will display additional offers (such as adware) during installation including a browser toolbar/extension as well as advertising injection software (part of the Injekt brand). The application setup.exe, “FinanceAlert Installer” by Valid Applications has been detected as adware by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. This is a setup and installation application and has been known to bundle potentially unwanted software. It is also typically executed from the user's temporary directory.
Publisher:
Valid Applications  (signed and verified)

Product:
Finance Alert

Description:
FinanceAlert Installer

Version:
1.0.0.0

MD5:
61e6eac0d9cfbbf69aab6f79c3c137f1

SHA-1:
f931a89bd1a0e8970767960d99ef54f36886c42d

SHA-256:
6f8e52fcc9c8d856f82246380fa2bf6deeab95134641499e28d112f92a5dcc34

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Adware

Explanation:
Injects display ads (banner ads), in-text ads, interstitial ads, or other types of ads in the web browser as well as alters the browsers settings (home page, search, DNS, and security protocols).

Analysis date:
6/23/2025 10:38:04 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Injekt (M)
17.3.12.12

File size:
4.1 MB (4,324,608 bytes)

Product version:
1.0.0.0

Copyright:
Copyright © Valid Applications 2015

Original file name:
Installer.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
Language Neutral

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\temp\{random}.tmp\installer\setup.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Valid Applications

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
10/15/2014 2:00:00 AM

Valid to:
10/16/2015 1:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=Valid Applications, O=Valid Applications, L=St. James, S=St. James, C=BB

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:
085BF49B5A62F0A47208B968B1916037

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
5/31/2015 5:22:04 AM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
11.0

.NET CLR dependent:
Yes

Entry address:
0x4040EE

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

Code size:
4 MB (4,203,008 bytes)

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