adobe flash.exe

Safe Click Lol

This is the OutBrowse Revenyou installer which bundles offers for additional third party applications that may be unwanted and installed without consent. The application adobe flash.exe by Safe Click Lol has been detected as adware by 12 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the OutBrowse Revenyou installer. According to AVG, this software downloads additional adware offers during setup. The file has been seen being downloaded from dl.downloadnet.org.
Publisher:
Safe Click Lol  (signed and verified)

MD5:
104a70be9bc8918fac672ba9d9f6161c

SHA-1:
183f2c150aed4e1946e1302f8684234f3cb2d1aa

SHA-256:
ea5862085ad11448e490d4cb23af27f4c6a18fc505abd600bc25e3eeb7b4cb21

Scanner detections:
12 / 68

Status:
Adware

Explanation:
Bundles additional adware offers during download and installation using the OutBrowse installer.

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:
5/6/2024 7:06:37 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

AhnLab V3 Security
PUP/Win32.OutBrowse
2015.02.24

Avira AntiVirus
PUA/Outbrowse.Gen
7.11.212.68

avast!
OutBrowse-HF [PUP]
150101-1

AVG
Downloader
2016.0.3189

ESET NOD32
Win32/OutBrowse.BU potentially unwanted application
7.0.302.0

Fortinet FortiGate
Riskware/OutBrowse
2/23/2015

K7 AntiVirus
Trojan
13.198.15057

Kaspersky
not-a-virus:Downloader.NSIS.OutBrowse
15.0.0.543

McAfee
Program.Adware-OutBrowse.e
16.8.708.2

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Outbrowse
15.2.23.22

Sophos
Generic PUA AE
4.98

Trend Micro House Call
Suspici.6F840C07
7.2.54

File size:
599.3 KB (613,648 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
OutBrowse Revenyou (using Nullsoft Install System)

Language:
Language Neutral

Common path:
C:\Documents and Settings\{user}\My documents\downloads\adobe flash.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:

Authority:
thawte, Inc.

Valid from:
2/4/2015 6:00:00 PM

Valid to:
1/27/2016 5:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Safe Click Lol, O=Safe Click Lol, L=Dublin, S=Dublin, C=IE

Issuer:
CN=thawte SHA256 Code Signing CA, O="thawte, Inc.", C=US

Serial number:
0113B280254155278C27A31712365932

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
12/5/2009 4:50:52 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:+VeCBJjBbmd+BHcAl9e8okFkVtAVm3QyDXxN6wl0MYGyaM9aA:+VDjBCdO9NQTxCla

Entry address:
0x30FA

Entry point:
81, EC, 80, 01, 00, 00, 53, 55, 56, 33, DB, 57, 89, 5C, 24, 18, C7, 44, 24, 10, 60, 91, 40, 00, 33, F6, C6, 44, 24, 14, 20, FF, 15, 30, 70, 40, 00, 68, 01, 80, 00, 00, FF, 15, B0, 70, 40, 00, 53, FF, 15, 7C, 72, 40, 00, 6A, 08, A3, 18, EC, 42, 00, E8, F1, 2B, 00, 00, A3, 64, EB, 42, 00, 53, 8D, 44, 24, 34, 68, 60, 01, 00, 00, 50, 53, 68, 98, 8F, 42, 00, FF, 15, 58, 71, 40, 00, 68, 54, 91, 40, 00, 68, 60, E3, 42, 00, E8, A4, 28, 00, 00, FF, 15, AC, 70, 40, 00, BF, 00, 40, 43, 00, 50, 57, E8, 92, 28, 00, 00...
 
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Entropy:
7.9455

Packer / compiler:
Nullsoft install system v2.x

Code size:
23.5 KB (24,064 bytes)

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