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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. The installer is marketed through download protals and search ads as Google's Chrome web browser but will also install additional software offers which include adware, PUPs and browser toolbars. The file has been seen being downloaded from secure.oinstaller9.com.
Publisher:
Premium Installer  (signed and verified)

MD5:
68547bd8a3a6edde24a1ecee1bab6cff

SHA-1:
f8796d2f5e3e8e490fd4c61f1faa2c9683f540f3

SHA-256:
450cc6e1c819e0f834ae0abe70c439ea33d9ed85ba024f9d5806b8cafa850cd6

Scanner detections:
23 / 68

Status:
Adware

Explanation:
This setup/installer bundles various adware components.

Description:
This is an installer which may bundle legitimate applications with offers for additional 3rd-party applications that may be unwanted by the user. While the installer contains an 'opt-out' feature this is not set be defult and is usually overlooked.

Analysis date:
4/25/2024 9:13:55 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Agnitum Outpost
Trojan.Inject
7.1.1

AhnLab V3 Security
Adware/Win32.IBryte
2014.10.23

Avira AntiVirus
Adware/iBryte.L
7.11.180.204

avast!
PUP-gen [PUP]
141023-1

AVG
Trojan horse Generic34.AVDV
2014.0.4040

Comodo Security
Application.Win32.iBryte.M
19879

Dr.Web
Adware.Downware.1374, Adware.Downware.1479
9.0.1.05190

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

Fortinet FortiGate
Riskware/PremiumInstaller
10/23/2014

F-Prot
W32/Ibryte.D.gen
4.6.5.141

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

K7 AntiVirus
Trojan
13.184.13741

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

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.IBryte.A
v2014.10.23.04

NANO AntiVirus
Trojan.Win32.Downware.cssqfh
0.28.2.62841

nProtect
Trojan/W32.Agent.1066648
14.10.22.01

Qihoo 360 Security
Malware.QVM10.Gen
1.0.0.1015

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Installer.PremiumInstaller.M
14.10.23.4

Rising Antivirus
PE:Trojan.Buzus!6.D6
23.00.65.141021

Sophos
iBryte Optimum Installer
4.98

Vba32 AntiVirus
BScope.Malware-Cryptor.iBryte
3.12.26.3

VIPRE Antivirus
Threat.4150696
33706

Zillya! Antivirus
Adware.iBryte.Win32.552
2.0.0.1965

File size:
1 MB (1,066,648 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:
7/13/2013 1:00:00 AM

Valid to:
8/3/2014 12:59:59 AM

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:
8/12/2013 9:40:20 PM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:lfPiCyaTj3fJs9oQC1kgpB3SmcN6H06nJ6LQcweZgFfNMXa7GUwLOVCLUZZ1omGs:VLsSQC1kgpB3SmZU6nJ6LQcfZgFfNMXe

Entry address:
0x452C

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:
6.9434

Code size:
106 KB (108,544 bytes)

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

https://secure.oinstaller9.com/93e8fc3479ee739895586201551b3fe3/o/.../Chrome_Setup.exe

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