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appinstall.exe

Media Watch home 9585

Media Watch

The application appinstall.exe has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 36 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) installer, however the file is not signed with an authenticode signature from a trusted source. BetterSurf is a program that comes with software bundlers that offer free applications and will add a plugin to Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Chrome which displays advertisements on websites and search engines. In addition it will redirct various web browsing to various malvertisng sites.
Publisher:
Media Watch

Product:
Media Watch home 9585

Version:
1.1

MD5:
2c695eed1353d7869429a9aee25f0a6e

SHA-1:
69744bf0bcd12cc6ebcaa641a1b193d0c77b94b6

SHA-256:
70b84a19f6c7d6fecf646565c724e8ee863d5715e86eef93fa4cce30c0a9f87a

Scanner detections:
36 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Explanation:
Installed with software bundlers that offer free applications or games and adds a plugin to Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Chrome and will display ads as the user browses the Internet, both in websites and on search engine results

Analysis date:
4/26/2024 8:22:04 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Adware.BetterSurf.H
889

Agnitum Outpost
PUA.BetterSurf
7.1.1

AhnLab V3 Security
Adware/Win32.BetterSurf
2014.08.30

Avira AntiVirus
ADWARE/Adware.Gen7
7.11.169.248

avast!
Adware-gen [Adw]
140813-1

AVG
Adware Skodna.Generic_r.HW
2014.0.4015

Baidu Antivirus
Adware.Win32.BetterSurf
4.0.3.14829

Bitdefender
Adware.BetterSurf.H
1.0.20.1205

Clam AntiVirus
Win.Adware.Bettersurf-6
0.98/19315

Comodo Security
Application.Win32.AdWare.BetterSurf.C
19353

Dr.Web
Threat.Undefined
9.0.1.05190

Emsisoft Anti-Malware
Adware.BetterSurf
9.0.0.4324

ESET NOD32
multiple threats
7.0.302.0

Fortinet FortiGate
Adware/BetterSurf
8/29/2014

F-Prot
W32/Medfos.AE3.gen
v6.4.7.1.166

F-Secure
Adware.BetterSurf.H
11.2014-29-08_6

G Data
Adware.BetterSurf
14.8.24

IKARUS anti.virus
AdWare.BetterSurf
t3scan.1.7.5.0

K7 AntiVirus
Unwanted-Program
13.183.13198

Kaspersky
not-a-virus:AdWare.Win32.BetterSurf
15.0.0.494

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.MediaWatch.A
v2014.08.29.05

McAfee
Adware-BetterSurf
5600.7023

Microsoft Security Essentials
Threat.Undefined
1.183.900.0

MicroWorld eScan
Adware.BetterSurf.H
15.0.0.723

NANO AntiVirus
Riskware.Win32.BetterSurf.cvthxc
0.28.2.61861

nProtect
Adware.BetterSurf.H
14.08.29.01

Panda Antivirus
Trj/NsisDownloader.A
14.08.29.05

Qihoo 360 Security
Malware.QVM06.Gen
1.0.0.1015

Quick Heal
Adware.BetterSurf.B5
8.14.14.00

Rising Antivirus
PE:Trojan.Win32.Generic.1698BBFD!379108349
23.00.65.14827

Sophos
BetterSurf
4.98

SUPERAntiSpyware
Adware.BetterSurf/Variant
10392

Trend Micro House Call
TROJ_SPNR.0BCP14
7.2.241

Trend Micro
TROJ_SPNR.0BCP14
10.465.29

Vba32 AntiVirus
AdWare.BetterSurf
3.12.26.3

VIPRE Antivirus
Threat.4866310
32210

File size:
634.5 KB (649,745 bytes)

Product version:
1.1

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)

Common path:
C:\Documents and Settings\{user}\Local settings\temp\appinstall.exe

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
12/5/2009 11:50:52 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:IST65AEt3tG4GjeZHkwuPikQ7lKH5p5H9x1IeZHkwutifQ/lK15ppxlAlfj:IS25ACG4GjeZEXi37l6Br1IeZEFi4/ln

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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Packer / compiler:
Nullsoft install system v2.x

Code size:
23.5 KB (24,064 bytes)

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