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 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. 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:
32.1.1700.77

MD5:
82db4a81d8c4f00d82934da6e0a44f9a

SHA-1:
a3c494678cf8e6f1e11191df227fe37b6f222ce8

SHA-256:
ba2d7f356e915bb4d0f08b105e36fa2a3e60574d25531402ca8f7ffbecf0d1a3

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

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 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:
4/25/2024 10:55:03 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Sien (M)
17.3.1.13

File size:
175.3 KB (179,512 bytes)

Product version:
32.1.1700.77

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\1stbrowser\application\32.1.1700.77\chrome_launcher.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:

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:
3/4/2014 10:58:28 AM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
10.0

Entry address:
0xA9E7

Entry point:
E8, FD, 62, 00, 00, E9, 89, FE, FF, FF, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, 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, 60, AD, 42, 00, 00, 74, 13, 57, 56, 83, E7, 0F, 83, E6, 0F, 3B, FE, 5E, 5F, 75, 05, E9, F9, 47, 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, 70, AB, 40, 00, 8B, C7, BA, 03, 00, 00, 00...
 
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Code size:
116.5 KB (119,296 bytes)

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