Trusted Download LLC – 7% Detection Rate – PUA/Softpulse.Gen / Downloader.Win32.DriverUpd

Welcome! If you are a regular here on the FreeFixer blog you know that I’ve been looking on the certificates used to sign files that bundled various types of unwanted software. Today I found another certificate, used by a publisher called Trusted Download LLC.

This is how Trusted Download LLC appears when running the file:

Trusted Download LLC notice

It is also possible to check a digital signature by looking at a file’s properties. Here’s a screenshot of the Trusted Download LLC certificate.

Trusted Download LLC certificate

So, why am I writing about the Trusted Download LLC file? Check out what the anti-malware scanners report about the file:

Trusted Download LLC anti virus report

Avira classifies Setup(1).exe as PUA/Softpulse.Gen, Kaspersky reports not-a-virus:Downloader.Win32.DriverUpd.lqs and Qihoo-360 detects it as HEUR/QVM18.1.Malware.Gen are a few of the detection names for Setup(1).exe.

Did you also find a Trusted Download LLC file? What kind of download was it? If you remember the download link, please post it in the comments below.

Thanks for reading.

2 thoughts on “Trusted Download LLC – 7% Detection Rate – PUA/Softpulse.Gen / Downloader.Win32.DriverUpd

  1. hxxp://download.cnet .com/Revealer-Keylogger-Free/3000-2162_4-10586804.html?part=dl-6287137&subj=dl&tag=button

    pls check it for heur/malware.qvm18.1.gen

    1. VirusTotal: 10/57

      Agnitum Riskware.RevealKeylogger! 20150316
      AhnLab-V3 Unwanted/Win32.Keylogger 20150317
      Comodo UnclassifiedMalware 20150317
      DrWeb Tool.Keylog.220 20150317
      ESET-NOD32 Win32/KeyLogger.RevealerKeylogger.NAB 20150317
      Ikarus PUA.KeyLogger.RevealerKeylogger 20150317
      Kingsoft Win32.Troj.Generic.a.(kcloud) 20150317
      Malwarebytes Keylogger.Logixoft 20150317
      NANO-Antivirus Trojan.Win32.XPACK.czfvpv 20150317
      Sophos Revealer Keylogger Installer 20150317

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