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airglobesetup.exe

Air Globe

This is the installer and setup program from the Air Globe branded Yontoo adware web browser extension. This adware injects various forms of advertisements in the user's web browser based on the HTML content and URLs viewed. Ad include banners, in-line context text links, coupons, and search. The program will install an auto-updating Windows service that will update the software with additional features. The application airglobesetup.exe by Air Globe has been detected as adware by 27 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) installer. It will plug into the web browser and display context-based advertisements by overwriting existing ads or by inserting new ones on various web pages.
Publisher:
Air Globe  (signed and verified)

MD5:
7cdd79d3eb641de37e60ffa5c6ae0487

SHA-1:
3acdb030c3de3cc9eeb5ea4ba39c53f274e8259e

SHA-256:
236c00471a12b3de0e2d1743a0edb766c85aa716d4cbff767ef75e78071ac821

Scanner detections:
27 / 68

Status:
Adware

Explanation:
Injects advertising in the web browser in various formats.

Analysis date:
4/23/2024 2:58:49 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Gen:Variant.Adware.SwiftBrowse.1
5651644

Agnitum Outpost
PUA.Kranet
7.1.1

AhnLab V3 Security
PUP/Win32.BrowseFox
2015.04.19

Avira AntiVirus
DR/Delphi.Gen2
7.11.30.172

AVG
Adware AdPlugin.CVG
2014.0.4311

Baidu Antivirus
Adware.Win32.BrowseFox
4.0.3.15419

Bitdefender
Gen:Variant.Adware.SwiftBrowse.1
1.0.20.545

Bkav FE
W32.HfsAdware
1.3.0.6379

Clam AntiVirus
Win.Adware.Agent-34627
0.98/21511

Dr.Web
Trojan.Yontoo.1734
9.0.1.05190

Emsisoft Anti-Malware
Gen:Variant.Adware.SwiftBrowse
9.0.0.4799

Fortinet FortiGate
Riskware/BrowseFox
4/19/2015

F-Secure
Gen:Variant.Adware.SwiftBrowse
11.2015-19-04_1

G Data
Gen:Variant.Adware.SwiftBrowse
15.4.25

herdProtect (fuzzy)
variant of 1plhblkxusg==51.exe (Adware)
2015.7.20.19

K7 AntiVirus
Unwanted-Program
13.202.15641

Kaspersky
not-a-virus:HEUR:AdWare.Win32.Kranet
15.0.0.543

McAfee
Trojan.Artemis!6A7A31BBA6A6
16.8.708.2

MicroWorld eScan
Gen:Variant.Adware.SwiftBrowse.1
16.0.0.327

NANO AntiVirus
Trojan.Nsis.BrowseFox.dnxihk
0.30.16.1110

Norman
Gen:Variant.Adware.SwiftBrowse.1
03.12.2014 13:20:04

Qihoo 360 Security
HEUR/QVM42.0.Malware.Gen
1.0.0.1015

Reason Heuristics
Threat.Yontoo.Installer
15.4.19.2

Rising Antivirus
NS:PUF.SilenceInstaller!1.9DDF
23.00.65.15417

Sophos
PUA 'Browse Fox'
5.13

Vba32 AntiVirus
AdWare.Kranet
3.12.26.3

VIPRE Antivirus
Threat.4150696
38882

File size:
511 KB (523,304 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\microsoft\windows\inetcache\content.ie5\dmhg8qzt\airglobesetup.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Air Globe

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
1/10/2015 4:00:00 PM

Valid to:
1/11/2016 3:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Air Globe, O=Air Globe, L=San Diego, S=California, 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:
0C68EFA725DB8110CE807489DAC03553

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
12/5/2009 2:52:01 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:ZyBQmM/81s15AnQEiM2WS/G/8/3D0Fw/tN8dkmLtpHHHrh7R:ZSQb/864QEV5P8/z0FmcLbH1R

Entry address:
0x30CB

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, 38, 6F, 44, 00, E8, F1, 2B, 00, 00, A3, 84, 6E, 44, 00, 53, 8D, 44, 24, 34, 68, 60, 01, 00, 00, 50, 53, 68, 30, 9C, 42, 00, FF, 15, 58, 71, 40, 00, 68, 54, 91, 40, 00, 68, 80, 2E, 44, 00, E8, A4, 28, 00, 00, FF, 15, AC, 70, 40, 00, BF, 00, F0, 46, 00, 50, 57, E8, 92, 28, 00, 00...
 
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Entropy:
7.9778

Packer / compiler:
Nullsoft install system v2.x

Code size:
22.5 KB (23,040 bytes)

The executing file has been seen to make the following network communications in live environments.

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to wac.edgecastcdn.net  (72.21.81.13:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to service.yontoo.com  (8.25.35.148:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to api.yontoo.com  (8.25.35.15:80)

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