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 25 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:
4bb25118744f920c13284a8efbfbdfe2

SHA-1:
efa402860eebbcf7f63f15957927447cf5247922

SHA-256:
257dd240e3f84a4b57075c66214756fbddc973139bdd700fde96a8714ac7023c

Scanner detections:
25 / 68

Status:
Adware

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

Analysis date:
4/29/2024 4:24:51 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Gen:Variant.Adware.SwiftBrowse.1
645

Agnitum Outpost
PUA.Kranet
7.1.1

AhnLab V3 Security
PUP/Win32.BrowseFox
2015.05.01

AVG
Win.Threat.Medium
2014.0.4311

Bitdefender
Gen:Variant.Adware.SwiftBrowse.1
1.0.20.605

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

ESET NOD32
Win32/BrowseFox.AV potentially unwanted application
7.0.302.0

Fortinet FortiGate
Riskware/BrowseFox
5/1/2015

F-Secure
Gen:Variant.Adware.SwiftBrowse
11.2015-01-05_6

G Data
Gen:Variant.Adware.SwiftBrowse
15.5.25

herdProtect (fuzzy)
2015.7.30.23

K7 AntiVirus
Unwanted-Program
13.202.15594

Kaspersky
not-a-virus:HEUR:AdWare.Win32.Kranet
14.0.0.2108

McAfee
Artemis!6A7A31BBA6A6
5600.6779

MicroWorld eScan
Gen:Variant.Adware.SwiftBrowse.1
16.0.0.363

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
Win32/Virus.Adware.639
1.0.0.1015

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Yontoo.Installer
15.5.1.7

Rising Antivirus
NS:PUF.SilenceInstaller!1.9DDF
23.00.65.15429

Sophos
PUA 'Browse Fox'
5.13

VIPRE Antivirus
Threat.4150696
39486

File size:
511 KB (523,272 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\microsoft\windows\inetcache\ie\{random}\airglobesetup.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
1/11/2015 8:00:00 AM

Valid to:
1/12/2016 7:59:59 AM

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:
12/6/2009 6:52:01 AM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:ftY4Icy1s15AnQEiM2WS/G/8/3D0Fw/tN8dkmLtpHHHrh7a:fBO64QEV5P8/z0FmcLbH1a

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 file airglobesetup.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

http://install-cdn.airglobeapp.com/sd?is=ob

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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