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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 21 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 secure.oinstaller9.com.
Publisher:
Premium Installer  (signed and verified)

MD5:
c17b9a3904ae11b7c7aa514e5afde526

SHA-1:
dabee80704db150a25965732422c51bcef583f62

SHA-256:
791cb66e4d44a394def886f4769faf54c20ed5f8110400169a6fb606fcdd8b5b

Scanner detections:
21 / 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:
4/25/2024 5:58:45 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Agnitum Outpost
Adware.Agent
7.1.1

AhnLab V3 Security
Trojan/Win32.Buzus
2014.11.02

Avira AntiVirus
Adware/iBryte.Z
7.11.182.186

avast!
Installer-K [PUP]
141025-0

AVG
Win.Threat.Medium
2014.0.4189

Comodo Security
Application.Win32.iBryte.M
19960

Dr.Web
Adware.Downware.1376, Adware.Downware.1479
9.0.1.05190

ESET NOD32
Win32/AdWare.iBryte.K.gen application
7.0.302.0

Fortinet FortiGate
Riskware/PremiumInstaller
11/1/2014

F-Prot
W32/Ibryte.D.gen
4.6.5.141

K7 AntiVirus
Trojan
13.185.13866

Kaspersky
not-a-virus:AdWare.Win32.iBryte
15.0.0.494

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.IBryte
v2014.11.01.06

NANO AntiVirus
Trojan.Win32.Downware.csnqdm
0.28.6.62995

nProtect
Trojan/W32.Agent.1063064
14.10.31.01

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Installer.PremiumInstaller.M
14.11.1.18

Rising Antivirus
PE:Malware.iBryte!6.45
23.00.65.141030

Sophos
iBryte Optimum Installer
4.98

Vba32 AntiVirus
BScope.Malware-Cryptor.iBryte
3.12.26.3

VIPRE Antivirus
Threat.4778314
34232

Zillya! Antivirus
Adware.iBryte.Win32.553
2.0.0.1974

File size:
1 MB (1,063,064 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
Adknowledge Fusion

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:
8/15/2013 12:10:15 PM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:69XiG9k5PPDEsxSFJz6/aLaZLYDVjQ9PGd9xgtrSUNzyNkpNJ:69XiO+PPQTFJzXZ5jQ9PGtgtrSUNDJ

Entry address:
0x3ACC

Entry point:
E8, 7B, 2F, 00, 00, E9, 78, FE, FF, FF, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 83, EC, 20, 8B, 45, 08, 56, 57, 6A, 08, 59, BE, 54, B2, 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, B0, 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:
6.9214

Code size:
103.5 KB (105,984 bytes)

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

https://secure.oinstaller9.com/o/.../Chrome_Setup.exe

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