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alot-appbar-installer.exe

INUVO Product

Inuvo Inc.

The application alot-appbar-installer.exe, “ALOT Appbar Setup” by Inuvo has been detected as adware by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. The program is a setup application that uses the NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) installer. It is also typically executed from an Internet Explorer cache folder. The file has been seen being downloaded from files.alotimg.com.
Publisher:
ALOT  (signed by Inuvo Inc.)

Product:
INUVO Product

Description:
ALOT Appbar Setup

Version:
1.3.7000.0

MD5:
7aa324bdd48fcfc93ffb30a61fa9df16

SHA-1:
3c0d2943789788d75e48a1448fe0fc9458d9a945

SHA-256:
160a728d88f8862acc3090dd8411311576aa2c6a032acbe5e25a71dbfa8d2258

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Adware

Note:
Our current pool of anti-malware engines have not currently detected this file, however based on our own detection heuristics we feel that this file is unwanted.

Analysis date:
5/4/2024 3:53:21 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Alot (M)
17.1.18.10

File size:
1.1 MB (1,148,832 bytes)

Copyright:
(c) 2010 ALOT.com

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)

Language:
Language Neutral

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\microsoft\windows\temporary internet files\content.ie5\{random}\alot-appbar-installer.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Inuvo Inc.

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
6/16/2013 7:00:00 PM

Valid to:
6/16/2016 6:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Inuvo Inc., OU=alot.com, OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O=Inuvo Inc., L=Conway, S=Arkansas, 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:
3882D25FACDF3244606CB5E968ED9FEA

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
2/24/2012 1:19:59 PM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
10.0

Entry address:
0x39E3

Entry point:
81, EC, D4, 02, 00, 00, 53, 55, 56, 57, 6A, 20, 33, ED, 5E, 89, 6C, 24, 18, C7, 44, 24, 10, D8, 91, 40, 00, 89, 6C, 24, 14, FF, 15, 30, 80, 40, 00, 68, 01, 80, 00, 00, FF, 15, B8, 80, 40, 00, 55, FF, 15, C0, 82, 40, 00, 6A, 08, A3, B8, 2E, 47, 00, E8, 37, 2A, 00, 00, 55, 68, B4, 02, 00, 00, A3, D0, 2D, 47, 00, 8D, 44, 24, 38, 50, 55, 68, 1C, 93, 40, 00, FF, 15, 84, 81, 40, 00, 68, 04, 93, 40, 00, 68, C0, AD, 46, 00, E8, 19, 27, 00, 00, FF, 15, B4, 80, 40, 00, 50, BF, A0, 30, 4C, 00, 57, E8, 07, 27, 00, 00...
 
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Entropy:
7.9831

Packer / compiler:
Nullsoft install system v2.x

Code size:
28 KB (28,672 bytes)

The file alot-appbar-installer.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

http://files.alotimg.com/app/3/bar/installer/link/3/1/.../5/.../alot-appbar-installer.exe

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