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chrome_setup.exe

Quick Downloader

The Adlogica setup manager, an installer that bundles applications with offers for additional 3rd party software, mostly unwanted adware, and may be installed without consent. The application chrome_setup.exe by Quick Downloader has been detected as adware by 15 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the Adlogica Quick Downloader installer. The setup program uses the InstallCore engine which may bundle additional software offers including toolbars and browser extensions. 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.

File name:

chrome_setup.exe

Publisher:

Quick Downloader (signed and verified)

MD5:

5a39e504cea71ed48996da5b01102b5c

SHA-1:

47282f93a4baa43333bfdebaf235513893cac8e4

SHA-256:

d113a31f53ca34d3dffa7b3b5f8639ff2c1ad5179abe52e278deeb7c759aa702

Scanner detections:

15 / 68

Status:

Adware

Explanation:

Uses the InstallCore download manager to install additional potentially unwanted software which may include extensions such as DealPly and various toolbars.

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:

4/24/2024 7:01:25 PM UTC (today)

Scan engine

Detection

Engine version

Agnitum Outpost

PUA.InstallCore

7.1.1

Avira AntiVirus

PUA/InstallCore.Gen7

8.3.1.6

avast!

Win32:PUP-gen [PUP]

150602-1

AVG

OutBrowse

2016.0.3076

Bkav FE

W32.HfsAdware

1.3.0.6379

Dr.Web

Trojan.Packed.24524

9.0.1.05190

ESET NOD32

Win32/InstallCore.MM potentially unwanted application

7.0.302.0

G Data

Win32.Application.InstallCore.CZ

15.6.25

K7 AntiVirus

Unwanted-Program

13.205.16273

Malwarebytes

PUP.Optional.InstallCore.A

v2015.06.17.11

NANO AntiVirus

Riskware.Win32.InstallCore.dcnbnl

0.30.24.2086

Reason Heuristics

PUP.Adlogica.Bundler

15.6.17.11

Sophos

PUA 'Install Core'

5.15

Vba32 AntiVirus

Malware-Cryptor.InstallCore.gen

3.12.26.4

VIPRE Antivirus

Threat.4786018

40786

File size:

750.2 KB (768,240 bytes)

File type:

Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:

Adlogica Quick Downloader (using Inno Setup)

Language:

Language Neutral

Common path:

C:\users\{user}\downloads\chrome_setup.exe

Digital Signature

Signed by:

Quick Downloader

Authority:

COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:

8/8/2013 1:00:00 AM

Valid to:

8/9/2014 12:59:59 AM

Subject:

CN=Quick Downloader, O=Quick Downloader, STREET=96 Jessie st, STREET=4th floor, L=San Francisco, S=CA, PostalCode=94105, C=US

Issuer:

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

Serial number:

00886E74060345A7D9DD833C2ADF305E49

File PE Metadata

Compilation timestamp:

6/19/1992 11:22:17 PM

OS version:

1.0

OS bitness:

Win32

Subsystem:

Windows GUI

Linker version:

2.25

CTPH (ssdeep):

12288:SfspT/+KegmFVG6Hu2iqsaelTEldwCJE/W+R9JSrYbSoZadA7oaJi+j4OIol5GcK:SfsBEgmHG6HTsianbSobl42pK

Entry address:

0x9C40

Entry point:

55, 8B, EC, 83, C4, C4, 53, 56, 57, 33, C0, 89, 45, F0, 89, 45, DC, E8, 86, 94, FF, FF, E8, 8D, A6, FF, FF, E8, 1C, A9, FF, FF, E8, 53, C9, FF, FF, E8, 9A, C9, FF, FF, E8, C9, F2, FF, FF, E8, 30, F4, FF, FF, 33, C0, 55, 68, FC, A2, 40, 00, 64, FF, 30, 64, 89, 20, 33, D2, 55, 68, C5, A2, 40, 00, 64, FF, 32, 64, 89, 22, A1, 14, C0, 40, 00, E8, 96, FE, FF, FF, E8, C9, FA, FF, FF, 8D, 55, F0, 33, C0, E8, 83, CF, FF, FF, 8B, 55, F0, B8, 24, CE, 40, 00, E8, 32, 95, FF, FF, 6A, 02, 6A, 00, 6A, 01, 8B, 0D, 24, CE... 
[+]

Entropy:

7.8833

Packer / compiler:

Inno Setup v5.x - Installer Maker

Code size:

37 KB (37,888 bytes)

The executing file has been seen to make the following network communications in live environments.

TCP (HTTP):

Connects to server-54-192-55-65.jfk6.r.cloudfront.net (54.192.55.65:80)

TCP (HTTP):

Connects to server-54-192-55-147.jfk6.r.cloudfront.net (54.192.55.147:80)

TCP (HTTP):

Connects to ec2-54-243-153-163.compute-1.amazonaws.com (54.243.153.163:80)

TCP (HTTP):

Connects to ec2-54-186-29-120.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com (54.186.29.120:80)

TCP (HTTP):

Connects to a23-52-155-27.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com (23.52.155.27:80)

TCP (HTTP):

Connects to a23-52-149-163.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com (23.52.149.163:80)

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