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breakingnews_silent_114.exe

International News Network Limited

The application breakingnews_silent_114.exe by International News Network Limited has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 9 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) installer. It is also typically executed from an Internet Explorer cache folder.
Publisher:
International News Network Limited  (signed and verified)

MD5:
8b358fce810c9c9d739c83053c148849

SHA-1:
c304ab29f5edba55d6607f0a90155f89ffd48f8b

SHA-256:
1b159c9dac1d8bfbbc03e13bb8de8ffd6e337910fb308e17a458a8fb7a70a763

Scanner detections:
9 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Analysis date:
4/19/2024 10:35:10 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

AVG
Generic
2016.0.3013

Comodo Security
Heur.Suspicious
17448

Dr.Web
Adware.Toolbar.224
9.0.1.0231

ESET NOD32
Win32/Toolbar.Besttoolbars.J potentially unwanted (variant)
9.11828

herdProtect (fuzzy)
variant of breakingnews_silent_128.exe (PUP)
2015.10.5.14

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.BestToolBars.A
v2015.08.19.03

McAfee
Artemis!8B358FCE810C
5600.6669

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Besttoolbars.InternationalNewsNetwork.Installer (M)
15.8.19.3

VIPRE Antivirus
News.net
24410

File size:
1.9 MB (2,041,208 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\microsoft\windows\temporary internet files\content.ie5\{random}\breakingnews_silent_114.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
International News Network Limited

Authority:
COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:
5/16/2013 8:00:00 AM

Valid to:
5/17/2015 7:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=International News Network Limited, O=International News Network Limited, STREET="Unit 902, 9th Floor,", STREET=Loke Yew Building, STREET=50-52 Queens Rd, L=Central, S=Hong Kong, PostalCode=999077, C=HK

Issuer:
CN=COMODO Code Signing CA 2, O=COMODO CA Limited, L=Salford, S=Greater Manchester, C=GB

Serial number:
17EFC172DA59DDF23B9F1131C93ADE7F

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
12/6/2009 6:50:41 AM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
49152:KmiUeFcWrawgD4oHw40QG4iU9kdOhGm2m420vAcV2:8U3w/oQbQf6dmGTTv/Q

Entry address:
0x30CB

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, 38, 3F, 42, 00, E8, F1, 2B, 00, 00, A3, 84, 3E, 42, 00, 53, 8D, 44, 24, 34, 68, 60, 01, 00, 00, 50, 53, 68, 30, F4, 41, 00, FF, 15, 58, 71, 40, 00, 68, 54, 91, 40, 00, 68, 80, 36, 42, 00, E8, A4, 28, 00, 00, FF, 15, AC, 70, 40, 00, BF, 00, 90, 42, 00, 50, 57, E8, 92, 28, 00, 00...
 
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Entropy:
7.9950

Packer / compiler:
Nullsoft install system v2.x

Code size:
22.5 KB (23,040 bytes)

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