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chrome_launcher.exe

Google Chrome Frame

SIEN S.A.

This is the SIEN AppScion Installer which bundles applications with offers for additional 3rd party software, mostly unwanted adware, and may be installed with minimal consent. The application chrome_launcher.exe, “Chrome Frame renders the Web of the future in the browsers of the past. It's like strapping a rocket engine to a minivan.” by SIEN S.A has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 3 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the SIEN SuperInstall installer. With this installer, users are expecting to download Google's Chrome web browser but before that occurs they may be presented with additional offers, mostly potentially unwanted software or adware.
Publisher:
The Chromium Authors  (signed by SIEN S.A.)

Product:
Google Chrome Frame

Description:
Chrome Frame renders the Web of the future in the browsers of the past. It's like strapping a rocket engine to a minivan.

Version:
3.27.0.5541

MD5:
8ecbb9f254eda6665119f33dc6edf98b

SHA-1:
30077ce3a486362ee27dfccfd741826b0b1a68a6

SHA-256:
2fd43a66d5b177e9e4eaaaee99b812b1d7867bd6931c542b380bcc5085c57d39

Scanner detections:
3 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Description:
This is also known as bundleware, or downloadware, which is an downloader designed to simply deliver ad-supported offers in the setup routine of an otherwise legitimate software.

Analysis date:
4/23/2024 10:12:39 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Bkav FE
W32.HfsAdware
1.3.0.6379

Dr.Web
Adware.Iminent.55
9.0.1.042

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Sien.SIENSA.Bundler (M)
16.2.11.4

File size:
85.8 KB (87,872 bytes)

Product version:
3.27.0.5541

Copyright:
Copyright 2013 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.

Original file name:
chrome_launcher.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
SIEN SuperInstall

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\beamrise\application\3.27.0.5541\chrome_launcher.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
SIEN S.A.

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
8/21/2012 9:00:00 PM

Valid to:
8/22/2014 8:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=SIEN S.A., OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O=SIEN S.A., L=Paris, S=France, C=FR

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:
514EA00D30C8C244C3E818890BF73967

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
7/25/2013 9:13:09 AM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
10.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
1536:WqMAfh+cW0yOID4smADekldeMYW6CKhkhZuQeASF/0S1AGx:bvWDOKrmA7dSKZuQeASF/31AC

Entry address:
0x47C6

Entry point:
E8, 64, 2C, 00, 00, E9, 89, FE, FF, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 57, 56, 8B, 75, 0C, 8B, 4D, 10, 8B, 7D, 08, 8B, C1, 8B, D1, 03, C6, 3B, FE, 76, 08, 3B, F8, 0F, 82, A0, 01, 00, 00, 81, F9, 80, 00, 00, 00, 72, 1C, 83, 3D, 20, 56, 41, 00, 00, 74, 13, 57, 56, 83, E7, 0F, 83, E6, 0F, 3B, FE, 5E, 5F, 75, 05, E9, 79, 0D, 00, 00, F7, C7, 03, 00, 00, 00, 75, 14, C1, E9, 02, 83, E2, 03, 83, F9, 08, 72, 29, F3, A5, FF, 24, 95, 40, 49, 40, 00, 8B, C7, BA, 03, 00, 00, 00, 83, E9, 04, 72, 0C, 83, E0, 03, 03, C8, FF, 24, 85, 54, 48...
 
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Code size:
45.5 KB (46,592 bytes)

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