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Media Watch home 1163

Media Watch

The application appinstall.exe has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 38 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. The setup program bundles adware offers using the Amonetize, a Pay-Per-Install (PPI) monetization and distribution download manager. The software offerings provided are based on the PC's geo-location at the time of install.
Publisher:
Media Watch

Product:
Media Watch home 1163

Version:
1.1

MD5:
69a3b87eadd091f1f886e73a345bd3f3

SHA-1:
9886476cd95ad87f8acb93e5a53ee349e1af08ba

SHA-256:
9fece887cf612cdc78036c2e49bd0a8c7379b2c76da15142be620d9d164c4a6b

Scanner detections:
38 / 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:
4/18/2024 10:26:57 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Gen:Variant.Adware.SwiftBrowse.10
521

Agnitum Outpost
PUA.BetterSurf
7.1.1

AhnLab V3 Security
Adware/Win32.BetterSurf
2015.03.27

avast!
NSIS:Amonetize-G [PUP]
2014.9-150901

AVG
Skodna.Generic_r
2016.0.2999

Baidu Antivirus
Adware.Win32.BetterSurf
4.0.3.1591

Bitdefender
Gen:Variant.Adware.SwiftBrowse.10
1.0.20.1220

Bkav FE
W32.WlmdrAK.Trojan
1.3.0.6379

Clam AntiVirus
Win.Adware.Bettersurf-26
0.98/21511

Comodo Security
Application.Win32.AdWare.BetterSurf.C
21553

Dr.Web
Adware.BetterSurf.2768
9.0.1.0244

Emsisoft Anti-Malware
Gen:Variant.Adware.SwiftBrowse.10
8.15.09.01.04

ESET NOD32
Win32/AdWare.BetterSurf (variant)
9.11384

Fortinet FortiGate
Adware/BetterSurf
9/1/2015

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

F-Secure
Gen:Variant.Adware.SwiftBrowse
11.2015-01-09_3

G Data
Gen:Variant.Adware.SwiftBrowse.10
15.9.25

herdProtect (fuzzy)
variant of set-app.exe
2015.10.28.17

K7 AntiVirus
Unwanted-Program
13.202.15395

Kaspersky
not-a-virus:AdWare.Win32.BetterSurf
14.0.0.1492

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.MediaWatch.A
v2015.09.01.04

McAfee
Artemis!69A3B87EADD0
5600.6655

Microsoft Security Essentials
Adware:Win32/BetterSurf
1.1.11502.0

MicroWorld eScan
Gen:Variant.Adware.SwiftBrowse.10
16.0.0.732

NANO AntiVirus
Riskware.Win32.BetterSurf.cvthxc
0.30.8.659

nProtect
Trojan-Clicker/W32.BetterSurf.649734
15.03.26.01

Panda Antivirus
Trj/NsisDownloader.A
15.09.01.04

Qihoo 360 Security
HEUR/Malware.QVM06.Gen
1.0.0.1015

Quick Heal
Adware.BetterSurf.b (Not a Virus)
9.15.14.00

Reason Heuristics
Adware.Revizor.MediaWatch.Installer.Meta (M)
15.9.1.16

Rising Antivirus
PE:Malware.BetterSurf!6.11BF
23.00.65.15830

Sophos
BetterSurf
4.98

SUPERAntiSpyware
Adware.BetterSurf/Variant
9656

Trend Micro House Call
TROJ_SPNR.0BCU14
7.2.244

Trend Micro
TROJ_SPNR.0BCU14
10.465.01

Vba32 AntiVirus
AdWare.BetterSurf
3.12.26.3

VIPRE Antivirus
Adware.Bettersurf
38812

Zillya! Antivirus
Adware.BetterSurf.Win32.8684
2.0.0.2118

File size:
634.5 KB (649,734 bytes)

Product version:
1.1

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)

Language:
Language Neutral

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

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
12/6/2009 12:50:52 AM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:8jac1+JUjtG4GjeZHkwuPikQ7lKH5p5H9x19eZHkwuXi5QvlK75pnxWlf5:8L1+otG4GjeZEXi37l6Br19eZEviuvlV

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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Entropy:
7.9804

Packer / compiler:
Nullsoft install system v2.x

Code size:
23.5 KB (24,064 bytes)

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