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chrome_setup.exe

TINY INSTALLER

Tiny Installer is a download manager variant from Adknowledge that packages various adware-type offers (toolbar, coupon extensions, utilities) with software distributions. The application chrome_setup.exe, “Express Install ” by TINY INSTALLER has been detected as adware 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 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.
Publisher:
Express Install   (signed by TINY INSTALLER)

Product:
Express Install

Description:
Express Install

Version:
3, 7, 1, 0

MD5:
10dfba512f6e9ae70f38d64df2629750

SHA-1:
ebab54ee5df5c87f9deba40395c41b29ff432221

SHA-256:
92bba4a3657be7b6c6631ef56728902c36642be132078d6a365069a338aeddab

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Adware

Explanation:
The Tiny Installer download manager 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 4:52:17 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Adknowledge.TINYINST.Bundler (M)
16.4.5.7

File size:
1.9 MB (1,949,480 bytes)

Product version:
3, 7, 1, 0

Copyright:
Copyright (C) 2013 Express Install

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:
TINY INSTALLER

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
6/2/2013 8:00:00 PM

Valid to:
6/3/2014 7:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=TINY INSTALLER, OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O=TINY 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:
54C184C0CB6B6510B3582483FC098463

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
10/21/2013 1:43:06 PM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
49152:w8tt4IZT6W2j+iH+8DzMwuG4UOuOpYnc1R8y33:/n4IZmWG+Qp0FbUOuOpfR8

Entry address:
0x35BC5

Entry point:
E8, BE, 8C, 00, 00, E9, 78, FE, FF, FF, 6A, 0C, 68, F0, 4B, 47, 00, E8, C1, 35, 00, 00, 83, 65, E4, 00, 8B, 75, 08, 3B, 35, 78, 4D, 5D, 00, 77, 22, 6A, 04, E8, C1, 8E, 00, 00, 59, 83, 65, FC, 00, 56, E8, 23, 9C, 00, 00, 59, 89, 45, E4, C7, 45, FC, FE, FF, FF, FF, E8, 09, 00, 00, 00, 8B, 45, E4, E8, CD, 35, 00, 00, C3, 6A, 04, E8, A4, 8D, 00, 00, 59, C3, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 83, 3D, D4, 39, 5D, 00, 00, 75, 18, E8, F9, 81, 00, 00, 6A, 1E, E8, 21, 80, 00, 00, 68, FF, 00, 00, 00, E8, 37, 4D, 00, 00, 59, 59, A1...
 
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Entropy:
7.1836

Code size:
390.5 KB (399,872 bytes)

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

http://premiumbrowserupdate.com/browser-update/.../install.php?sid=cpa&uid=&source=&transaction_id=f29d83e0-872d-43b8-ae9d-f6e495017676

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