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Web Bar Media

The application chrome.exe by Web Bar Media 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 ‘WebDiscoverBrowser’.
Publisher:
The Chromium Authors  (signed by Web Bar Media)

Product:
Chromium

Version:
41.0.2272.74

MD5:
c03f60c3b94cd4b77aa024e3eb669e0d

SHA-1:
74b59b0f7cdb0fcb8a36226bcdd6014ba844a0fd

SHA-256:
23fbe981b9fbcbab5b2c00ae063c2acd4708872fa51020081c6b1628864e5695

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:
4/28/2024 2:13:50 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP (M)
16.10.24.22

File size:
608.3 KB (622,872 bytes)

Product version:
41.0.2272.74

Copyright:
Copyright 2014 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.

Original file name:
chrome.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\Program Files\webdiscoverbrowser\1.95.2\chrome.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Web Bar Media

Authority:
Symantec Corporation

Valid from:
2/5/2015 6:00:00 PM

Valid to:
2/6/2016 5:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Web Bar Media, O=Web Bar Media, L=Victoria, S=British Columbia, C=CA

Issuer:
CN=Symantec Class 3 SHA256 Code Signing CA, OU=Symantec Trust Network, O=Symantec Corporation, C=US

Serial number:
0F7B7C7A3031BA614438E5A48FF24DD7

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
6/29/2015 5:13:00 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
12.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:5lPJPfhe5Uy4t3IEGU0VPXuJSoBK3O+iJ9rxNM7ygJl4YzV4DjdHjPzD/g8nfDLg:LPZhefXANMDX4YBCjBzD/xL2P

Entry address:
0x46158

Entry point:
E8, A7, CD, 00, 00, E9, 7F, FE, FF, FF, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, 8B, 44, 24, 08, 8B, 4C, 24, 10, 0B, C8, 8B, 4C, 24, 0C, 75, 09, 8B, 44, 24, 04, F7, E1, C2, 10, 00, 53, F7, E1, 8B, D8, 8B, 44, 24, 08, F7, 64, 24, 14, 03, D8, 8B, 44, 24, 08, F7, E1, 03, D3, 5B, C2, 10, 00, A1, 64, B7, 48, 00, 56, 6A, 14, 5E, 85, C0, 75, 07, B8, 00, 02, 00, 00, EB, 06, 3B, C6, 7D, 07, 8B, C6, A3, 64, B7, 48, 00, 6A, 04, 50, E8, E0, 4F, 00, 00, A3, 60, B7, 48, 00, 59, 59, 85, C0, 75, 1E, 6A, 04...
 
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Entropy:
6.1080

Code size:
392.5 KB (401,920 bytes)

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

Name:
WebDiscoverBrowser

Command:
C:\Program Files\webdiscoverbrowser\1.95.2\chrome.exe --docked


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