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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 23 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.oi-installer9.com.
Publisher:
Premium Installer  (signed and verified)

MD5:
dd0135f3e07787551b21b5e0c0c91bf5

SHA-1:
df34737e0dea515e2af431dddd394b5cf09e42a9

SHA-256:
0990fb640aa1f25758193361e7ccbb6fa2cb6ac22a797ba346e49dadd2b947e9

Scanner detections:
23 / 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:
4/24/2024 11:40:42 PM UTC  (a few moments ago)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Agnitum Outpost
PUA.iBryte
7.1.1

Avira AntiVirus
ADWARE/iBryte.Gen7
7.11.180.122

avast!
Installer-K [PUP]
141003-0

AVG
Adware Skodna.Bundle_r.J
2014.0.4040

Clam AntiVirus
Win.Adware.Downware-266
0.98/21411

Comodo Security
Application.Win32.iBryte.M
19871

Dr.Web
Adware.Downware.1334, Adware.Downware.1479
9.0.1.05190

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

Fortinet FortiGate
Riskware/PremiumInstaller
10/22/2014

F-Prot
W32/Ibryte.D.gen
4.6.5.141

IKARUS anti.virus
Trojan.Win32.Buzus
t3scan.1.7.8.0

K7 AntiVirus
Adware
13.184.13741

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

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.IBryte.A
v2014.10.22.05

NANO AntiVirus
Trojan.Win32.Downware.cssqfh
0.28.2.62841

nProtect
Trojan-Clicker/W32.iBryte.1067672
14.10.21.01

Qihoo 360 Security
Malware.QVM10.Gen
1.0.0.1015

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Installer.PremiumInstaller.M
14.10.22.4

Rising Antivirus
PE:Trojan.Win32.Fednu.uph!1075353122
23.00.65.141020

Sophos
iBryte Optimum Installer
4.98

Vba32 AntiVirus
BScope.Malware-Cryptor.iBryte
3.12.26.3

VIPRE Antivirus
Threat.4150696
33706

Zillya! Antivirus
Trojan.Buzus.Win32.117168
2.0.0.1962

File size:
1 MB (1,067,672 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:
7/24/2013 4:25:18 PM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:M0wtBCKqYKqphuDsBwGs9eX0KLVOL5Z0hxj7xwDzTGZEFf+1x3Umlld1ppNB:M0wfnKXsNs9eEwcAj7x8VKvRB

Entry address:
0x456C

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, 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:
6.9323

Code size:
106 KB (108,544 bytes)

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

http://secure.oi-installer9.com/b14ec66ee619885af5354220a8245cf0/o/.../Chrome_Setup.exe

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