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Boost Shopping

The application boost.exe, “Boost is an application designed to help you compare products and prices while you shop online.” by Boost Shopping has been detected as adware by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. It is set to automatically start when a user logs into Windows via the current user run registry key under the display name ‘Boost’.
Publisher:
Boost Shopping  (signed and verified)

Product:
Boost

Description:
Boost is an application designed to help you compare products and prices while you shop online.

Version:
4.0.1.1

MD5:
b04bfe4a5f651a4363fa8fb09cca5c7e

SHA-1:
88e2ef76489db869e1cf99029e566b1f793ae56c

SHA-256:
bc1fb8d095a162c42a87f98ef8e2559b293d8c247a6bf260ab9ae09f9659a3e5

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:
5/3/2024 4:19:56 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Betwikx (M)
17.1.2.14

File size:
396.7 KB (406,232 bytes)

Product version:
4.0.1.1

Copyright:
(C) 2014 Boost Shopping. All right reserved.

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\Program Files\boost\boost.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Boost Shopping

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
7/24/2014 8:00:00 PM

Valid to:
7/25/2015 7:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Boost Shopping, O=Boost Shopping, L=Bellevue, S=Washington, 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:
177A8BFAF4DD605A74873C1AA8D4EE7E

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
11/18/2014 8:13:12 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
10.0

Entry address:
0x14899

Entry point:
E8, 2E, 71, 00, 00, E9, 89, FE, FF, FF, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, 8B, 54, 24, 0C, 8B, 4C, 24, 04, 85, D2, 74, 69, 33, C0, 8A, 44, 24, 08, 84, C0, 75, 16, 81, FA, 80, 00, 00, 00, 72, 0E, 83, 3D, 08, 9C, 45, 00, 00, 74, 05, E9, 8B, 71, 00, 00, 57, 8B, F9, 83, FA, 04, 72, 31, F7, D9, 83, E1, 03, 74, 0C, 2B, D1, 88, 07, 83, C7, 01, 83, E9, 01, 75, F6, 8B, C8, C1, E0, 08, 03, C1, 8B, C8, C1, E0, 10, 03, C1, 8B, CA, 83, E2, 03, C1, E9, 02, 74, 06, F3, AB, 85, D2, 74, 0A, 88, 07, 83, C7...
 
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Entropy:
6.1874

Code size:
258 KB (264,192 bytes)

Startup File (User Run)
Registry location:
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

Name:
Boost

Command:
C:\Program Files\boost\boost.exe


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