bluestacks.exe

Salyutem Plyus LLC

This is the OutBrowse Revenyou installer which bundles offers for additional third party applications that may be unwanted and installed without consent. The application bluestacks.exe by Salyutem Plyus 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 OutBrowse Revenyou installer. The file has been seen being downloaded from goo.gl.
Publisher:
Salyutem Plyus LLC  (signed and verified)

MD5:
7951eaf3a5ee955af5ea24dde4df8d45

SHA-1:
9495f823ced2badb83b263e22b0e667a3e75c897

SHA-256:
11561b67a19cb1b21010cd699c64b4ec9e7249b7002206a4c3048c5cfdb4b723

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.

Description:
This 'download manager' is also considered bundleware, a utility designed to download software (possibly legitimate or opensource) and bundle it with a number of optional offers including ad-supported utilities, toolbars, shopping comparison tools and browser extensions.

Analysis date:
4/18/2024 12:01:57 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.SalyutemPlyus.K
15.1.4.13

File size:
574.4 KB (588,184 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
OutBrowse Revenyou (using Nullsoft Install System)

Language:
Language Neutral

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\bluestacks.exe

Digital Signature
Authority:
thawte, Inc.

Valid from:
12/15/2014 7:00:00 AM

Valid to:
12/16/2015 6:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=Salyutem Plyus LLC, O=Salyutem Plyus LLC, L=Kharkiv, S=Arkansas, C=UA

Issuer:
CN=thawte SHA256 Code Signing CA, O="thawte, Inc.", C=US

Serial number:
6B6BB9E1A48F64F47503D8DCF6A5D0D3

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
12/6/2009 5:50:52 AM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:7ikePEwHLfq6AnvbHCtQDDZRj9gEoug4sBQZXyq33xSYIXQOqv:7i4M/AvbHCtsxgIgkCqZvj

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:
7.9742

Packer / compiler:
Nullsoft install system v2.x

Code size:
23.5 KB (24,064 bytes)

The file bluestacks.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

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