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chrome_setup.exe

Premium Installer

This adware bundler is distributed through Adknowledge's advertising supported software managers. The application chrome_setup.exe by Premium Installer has been detected as adware by 34 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the Adknowledge Fusion 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. The file has been seen being downloaded from mobitraxster.com.
Publisher:
ExpressInstaller  (signed by Premium Installer)

Product:
ExpressInstaller

Version:
3, 7, 1, 0

MD5:
b7ac54724aaa0dab664aef80f689d62f

SHA-1:
8ed80a94573d40c4d57de0b38f7c2cbf29046292

SHA-256:
5d72e2c686a5c26503c8b871420885c7513a21f2795dbe05fab6e1ab5913c011

Scanner detections:
34 / 68

Status:
Adware

Explanation:
This setup/installer bundles various adware components.

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:
4/19/2024 7:09:13 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Gen:Variant.Adware.Jatif.89
375

Agnitum Outpost
Adware.Agent
7.1.1

AhnLab V3 Security
Adware/Win32.IBryte
2014.11.17

Avira AntiVirus
ADWARE/iBryte.Gen7
7.11.186.130

avast!
Win32:Installer-K [PUP]
2014.9-160126

AVG
Adware AdInstaller.ExpressInstall
2017.0.2853

Bitdefender
Gen:Variant.Adware.Jatif.89
1.0.20.130

Bkav FE
W32.HfsAdware
1.3.0.6379

Clam AntiVirus
Win.Adware.Ibryte-328
0.98/20566

Comodo Security
Application.Win32.iBryte.M
20105

Dr.Web
Trojan.iBryte.539
9.0.1.026

Emsisoft Anti-Malware
Gen:Variant.Adware.Jatif.89
8.16.01.26.08

ESET NOD32
Win32/AdWare.iBryte.K.gen application
10.7.0.302.0

Fortinet FortiGate
Riskware/PremiumInstaller
1/26/2016

F-Prot
W32/Ibryte.F.gen
v6.4.6.5.141

F-Secure
Gen:Variant.Adware.Jatif
11.2016-26-01_3

G Data
Gen:Variant.Adware.Jatif.89
16.1.25

IKARUS anti.virus
Trojan.Win32.Buzus
t3scan.1.8.3.0

K7 AntiVirus
Trojan
13.185.14021

Kaspersky
not-a-virus:AdWare.Win32.iBryte
14.0.0.758

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.iBryte
v2016.01.26.08

MicroWorld eScan
Gen:Variant.Adware.Jatif.89
17.0.0.78

NANO AntiVirus
Riskware.Win32.IBryte.csqtcz
0.28.6.63362

Norman
Gen:Variant.Adware.Jatif.89
11.20160126

nProtect
Trojan-Clicker/W32.iBryte.1814168
14.11.14.01

Panda Antivirus
PUP/MultiToolbar.A
16.01.26.08

Qihoo 360 Security
Malware.QVM10.Gen
1.0.0.1015

Quick Heal
PUA.iBryte.DC4
1.16.14.00

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Adknowledge.PremiumInstaller.Installer (M)
16.1.26.8

Rising Antivirus
PE:Malware.iBryte!6.492
23.00.65.16124

Sophos
PUA 'iBryte Optimum Installer'
5.15

Vba32 AntiVirus
BScope.Malware-Cryptor.iBryte
3.12.26.3

VIPRE Antivirus
Threat.4778314
34232

Zillya! Antivirus
Adware.iBryte.Win32.613
2.0.0.1983

File size:
1.5 MB (1,607,320 bytes)

Product version:
3, 7, 1, 0

Copyright:
Copyright (C) 2013 ExpressInstaller

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
Adknowledge Fusion

Language:
English (United States)

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Premium Installer

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
7/12/2013 8:00:00 PM

Valid to:
8/2/2014 7:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Premium Installer, OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O=Premium Installer, L=Wilmington, S=Delaware, C=US

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:
35BB74B905C01CE61DA131BA49337F33

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
9/27/2013 4:35:28 PM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:fzCgYroAR/7nd6PRBpRtC+tpngG+r3Pm2qY/6O+i65D2/dhYMu/:nYrcRM+DngG+r3+2Fv0S1hg

Entry address:
0x41DC

Entry point:
E8, FB, 35, 00, 00, E9, 78, FE, FF, FF, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 83, EC, 20, 8B, 45, 08, 56, 57, 6A, 08, 59, BE, 5C, C2, 41, 00, 8D, 7D, E0, F3, A5, 89, 45, F8, 8B, 45, 0C, 5F, 89, 45, FC, 5E, 85, C0, 74, 0C, F6, 00, 08, 74, 07, C7, 45, F4, 00, 40, 99, 01, 8D, 45, F4, 50, FF, 75, F0, FF, 75, E4, FF, 75, E0, FF, 15, 44, C0, 41, 00, C9, C2, 08, 00, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 51, 53, 8B, 45, 0C, 83, C0, 0C, 89, 45, FC, 64, 8B, 1D, 00, 00, 00, 00, 8B, 03, 64, A3, 00, 00, 00, 00, 8B, 45, 08, 8B, 5D, 0C, 8B, 6D, FC, 8B, 63...
 
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Entropy:
7.1941

Code size:
105 KB (107,520 bytes)

The file chrome_setup.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

http://mobitraxster.com/go.php?c=447&l=737&subid=2134642415

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