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applinstall.exe

Rich Media View release 624

Rich Media View

The application applinstall.exe has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 35 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:
Rich Media View

Product:
Rich Media View release 624

Version:
1.1

MD5:
c16ed81d79a25302c7cd1cfb60e7a374

SHA-1:
de3ccf6843b95e11b4602d2e58cd57f21c14a402

SHA-256:
b15ea9af8f199d8e1854289a90a8f5bd70770dbd339d753e2dc904dfa8d6fd46

Scanner detections:
35 / 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:
4/24/2024 1:14:20 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Dropped:Application.Bundler.EV
521

Agnitum Outpost
PUA.BetterSurf
7.1.1

AhnLab V3 Security
Adware/Win32.BetterSurf
2014.12.09

Avira AntiVirus
ADWARE/Adware.Gen7
7.11.193.163

avast!
NSIS:Adware-NR [PUP]
2014.9-150901

AVG
Skodna.Generic_r
2016.0.2999

Baidu Antivirus
Adware.Win32.BetterSurf
4.0.3.1591

Bitdefender
Dropped:Application.Bundler.EV
1.0.20.1220

Clam AntiVirus
Win.Adware.Bettersurf-12
0.98/21511

Comodo Security
Application.Win32.AdWare.BetterSurf.C
20303

Dr.Web
Adware.BetterSurf.3837
9.0.1.0244

ESET NOD32
Win32/AdWare.BetterSurf (variant)
9.10844

Fortinet FortiGate
Adware/BetterSurf
9/1/2015

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

F-Secure
Dropped:Application.Bundler.EV
11.2015-01-09_3

G Data
Dropped:Application.Bundler.EV
15.9.24

K7 AntiVirus
Trojan
13.186.14270

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

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.RichMediaView.A
v2015.09.01.04

McAfee
Artemis!C16ED81D79A2
5600.6655

Microsoft Security Essentials
Adware:Win32/BetterSurf
1.11202

MicroWorld eScan
Dropped:Application.Bundler.EV
16.0.0.732

NANO AntiVirus
Riskware.Win32.BetterSurf.cxsilt
0.28.6.63850

Norman
Suspicious_Gen4.GKTXX
11.20150901

nProtect
Trojan-Clicker/W32.BetterSurf.673740
14.12.08.01

Panda Antivirus
Trj/NsisDownloader.A
15.09.01.04

Qihoo 360 Security
Win32/Trojan.Dropper.c9f
1.0.0.1015

Quick Heal
Adware.BetterSurf.B5
9.15.14.00

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

Rising Antivirus
PE:Malware.BetterSurf!6.11BF
23.00.65.15830

Sophos
BetterSurf
4.98

Trend Micro House Call
TROJ_SPNR.0BFL14
7.2.244

Trend Micro
TROJ_SPNR.0BFL14
10.465.01

Vba32 AntiVirus
AdWare.BetterSurf
3.12.26.3

VIPRE Antivirus
Adware.Bettersurf
35538

File size:
657.9 KB (673,740 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\applinstall.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:L4+XAyoeG4GQTq4OaQQTYJ8eP4/L5uO7D3f5Bv8pq4GanQTcJ8ePx/Z5uO7dApqZ:L4+XAyoeG4GQm4OaHYJ8eP4D5uOHBBj+

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:
7.9819

Packer / compiler:
Nullsoft install system v2.x

Code size:
23.5 KB (24,064 bytes)

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