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alcsup.exe

Castel Communication Ltd.

The application alcsup.exe by Castel Communication 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. According to Microsoft Security Essentials, this AddLyrics variant installs itself as a Chrome extension, an Internet Explorer add-on, and a Firefox plug-in and displays advertisements in the browser, and also display the lyrics to songs viewed on YouTube. It is also typically executed from the user's temporary directory.
Publisher:
Castel Communication Ltd.  (signed and verified)

Description:
Lyric Star

Version:
111.0.0.0

MD5:
f3977ef85d854c747451669cd1724a99

SHA-1:
049cd7be8676f4c5d9efbdb3d036198cc527f113

SHA-256:
4703ac3931de5329416bafaba5e6900847f8381d45a0521282362548395c029b

Scanner detections:
27 / 68

Status:
Adware

Analysis date:
4/18/2024 4:29:02 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Gen:Adware.Heur.hu0@ReOdrcdi
861

Agnitum Outpost
Adware.AddLyrics
7.1.1

Avira AntiVirus
Adware/Agent.118272.4
7.11.164.42

avast!
Win32:Adware-ATG [Adw]
2014.9-140926

AVG
Generic5
2015.0.3339

Bitdefender
Gen:Adware.Heur.hu0@ReOdrcdi
1.0.20.1345

Comodo Security
Application.Win32.AddLyrics.B
18991

Dr.Web
Adware.Shopper.341
9.0.1.0269

Emsisoft Anti-Malware
Gen:Adware.Heur.hu0@ReOdrcdi
8.14.09.26.01

ESET NOD32
Win32/Adware.AddLyrics (variant)
8.10160

Fortinet FortiGate
Riskware/AddLyrics
9/26/2014

F-Secure
Gen:Adware.Heur.hu0@ReOdrcdi
11.2014-26-09_6

G Data
Gen:Adware.Heur.hu0@ReOdrcdi
14.9.24

IKARUS anti.virus
Gen.AdWare.Heur
t3scan.1.6.1.0

K7 AntiVirus
Adware
13.181.12846

Kaspersky
not-a-virus:AdWare.Win32.Lyckriks
14.0.0.3192

McAfee
Artemis!F3977EF85D85
5600.6995

Microsoft Security Essentials
Adware:Win32/AddLyrics
1.10802

MicroWorld eScan
Gen:Adware.Heur.hu0@ReOdrcdi
15.0.0.807

NANO AntiVirus
Riskware.Win32.Shopper.cykmzh
0.28.2.60990

Qihoo 360 Security
Malware.QVM30.Gen
1.0.0.1015

Quick Heal
Adware.Addlyrics.A5
9.14.14.00

Reason Heuristics
PUP.CastelCommunication.G
14.9.26.13

Rising Antivirus
PE:Trojan.Win32.Generic.148AF3ED!344650733
23.00.65.14924

Trend Micro House Call
TROJ_GEN.R0CBOC0AK14
7.2.269

Trend Micro
TROJ_GEN.R0CBOC0AK14
10.465.26

VIPRE Antivirus
Adware.Singalng
31654

File size:
278.6 KB (285,312 bytes)

Copyright:
Lyric Star

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)

Language:
Language Neutral

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\temp\alcsup.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Castel Communication Ltd.

Authority:
COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:
2/25/2013 7:00:00 PM

Valid to:
2/26/2014 6:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Castel Communication Ltd., O=Castel Communication Ltd., STREET=5 Oded st., L=Ramat Gan, S=Israel, PostalCode=52223, C=IL

Issuer:
CN=COMODO Code Signing CA 2, O=COMODO CA Limited, L=Salford, S=Greater Manchester, C=GB

Serial number:
4B95965A86A77BF4007748964F3622CC

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
6/6/2009 5:41:54 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
6144:ms8lV/RYdu2RlDZsCKfc/isMJJUeN91E/vcmb:O/RYdX7YkiseJUeNA/vcm

Entry address:
0x323C

Entry point:
81, EC, 80, 01, 00, 00, 53, 55, 56, 33, DB, 57, 89, 5C, 24, 18, C7, 44, 24, 10, 30, 91, 40, 00, 33, F6, C6, 44, 24, 14, 20, FF, 15, 30, 70, 40, 00, 68, 01, 80, 00, 00, FF, 15, B4, 70, 40, 00, 53, FF, 15, 7C, 72, 40, 00, 6A, 08, A3, 58, 3F, 42, 00, E8, 09, 2C, 00, 00, A3, A4, 3E, 42, 00, 53, 8D, 44, 24, 34, 68, 60, 01, 00, 00, 50, 53, 68, 58, F4, 41, 00, FF, 15, 58, 71, 40, 00, 68, B8, 91, 40, 00, 68, A0, 36, 42, 00, E8, BC, 28, 00, 00, FF, 15, B0, 70, 40, 00, BF, 00, 90, 42, 00, 50, 57, E8, AA, 28, 00, 00...
 
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Entropy:
7.6900

Packer / compiler:
Nullsoft install system v2.x

Code size:
23 KB (23,552 bytes)

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