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chromesearchengine.exe

High Tech Marketing SL

The application chromesearchengine.exe by High Tech Marketing SL has been detected as adware by 4 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) installer. The file has been seen being downloaded from mega.co.nz.
Publisher:
High Tech Marketing SL  (signed and verified)

MD5:
b9b43fec5eaa7520c2ddeb2aa3c1e8eb

SHA-1:
7336cab9025cf1821a6275af7606bfcfef0b9910

SHA-256:
7f5bdec66e918a3f9d54dae6fe49d9a14b9f1e3000acc0a5ec18d3e6ad7226ff

Scanner detections:
4 / 68

Status:
Adware

Analysis date:
4/25/2024 6:46:31 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

AVG
Hightechma
2016.0.3003

Clam AntiVirus
Win.Adware.Outbrowse-2
0.98/19185

herdProtect (fuzzy)
variant of vaf-player-for-windows-setup.exe (Adware)
2015.10.25.1

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Montiera.HighTechMarketing.Installer (M)
15.8.28.13

File size:
772.3 KB (790,784 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\chromesearchengine.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
High Tech Marketing SL

Authority:
Thawte, Inc.

Valid from:
9/12/2013 7:00:00 PM

Valid to:
9/4/2014 6:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=High Tech Marketing SL, O=High Tech Marketing SL, L=Huesca, S=Huesca, C=ES

Issuer:
CN=Thawte Code Signing CA - G2, O="Thawte, Inc.", C=US

Serial number:
4625ADEDB0339F9BF207FC0912F93640

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
12/5/2009 5:50:52 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:HSWlvsmXJULteh9bUP2bTpEd08TEFAZci2jbHBLo:ppWSbUP2badBf2HhLo

Entry address:
0x30FA

Entry point:
81, EC, 80, 01, 00, 00, 53, 55, 56, 33, DB, 57, 89, 5C, 24, 18, C7, 44, 24, 10, 60, 91, 40, 00, 33, F6, C6, 44, 24, 14, 20, FF, 15, 30, 70, 40, 00, 68, 01, 80, 00, 00, FF, 15, B0, 70, 40, 00, 53, FF, 15, 7C, 72, 40, 00, 6A, 08, A3, 18, EC, 42, 00, E8, F1, 2B, 00, 00, A3, 64, EB, 42, 00, 53, 8D, 44, 24, 34, 68, 60, 01, 00, 00, 50, 53, 68, 98, 8F, 42, 00, FF, 15, 58, 71, 40, 00, 68, 54, 91, 40, 00, 68, 60, E3, 42, 00, E8, A4, 28, 00, 00, FF, 15, AC, 70, 40, 00, BF, 00, 40, 43, 00, 50, 57, E8, 92, 28, 00, 00...
 
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Packer / compiler:
Nullsoft install system v2.x

Code size:
23.5 KB (24,064 bytes)

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

https://mega.co.nz/temporary/.../nFUFQTKD

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