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FastBrowserSearchProtection.exe

Fast Browser Search Protection

Make The Web Better, LLC

The application FastBrowserSearchProtection.exe by Make The Web Better has been detected as adware by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. It is set to automatically execute when any user logs into Windows (through the local user run registry setting) with the name ‘FBSearch’.
Publisher:
Make The Web Better, LLC  (signed and verified)

Product:
Fast Browser Search Protection

Version:
1, 0, 0, 1

MD5:
f0ae9b5ca8ff553aeed04a781f3c9e5b

SHA-1:
9f6f8f599a43fd616fc2afe9d8910b1e8040eed5

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Adware

Note:
Our current pool of anti-malware engines have not currently detected this file, however based on our own detection heuristics we feel that this file is unwanted.

Analysis date:
4/26/2024 2:03:21 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP (M)
16.9.2.15

File size:
321.9 KB (329,600 bytes)

Product version:
1, 0, 0, 1

Copyright:
Copyright 2008

Original file name:
FastBrowserSearchProtection.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\Program Files\fast browser searchp\fastbrowsersearchprotection.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Make The Web Better, LLC

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
1/26/2009 6:00:00 PM

Valid to:
2/13/2011 5:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN="Make The Web Better, LLC", OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O="Make The Web Better, LLC", L=Englewood Cliffs, S=NewJersey, C=US

Issuer:
CN=VeriSign Class 3 Code Signing 2004 CA, OU=Terms of use at https://www.verisign.com/rpa (c)04, OU=VeriSign Trust Network, O="VeriSign, Inc.", C=US

Serial number:
4F800F353B7B159FC71A6428B9487DB8

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
3/16/2009 3:47:19 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
8.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
1536:eio/MO9VJnp4fu3Fej9bDShWkn4MKOPZBBECWTLtNRFyheVrS1evfiDuv4jnc0dV:PITDOhbuBsCWTLtNRFyd1eqU4jPtEW

Entry address:
0x9A6C

Entry point:
E8, 92, 41, 00, 00, E9, 17, FE, FF, FF, CC, CC, 68, E0, 91, 40, 00, 64, FF, 35, 00, 00, 00, 00, 8B, 44, 24, 10, 89, 6C, 24, 10, 8D, 6C, 24, 10, 2B, E0, 53, 56, 57, A1, C0, 73, 41, 00, 31, 45, FC, 33, C5, 50, 89, 65, E8, FF, 75, F8, 8B, 45, FC, C7, 45, FC, FE, FF, FF, FF, 89, 45, F8, 8D, 45, F0, 64, A3, 00, 00, 00, 00, C3, 8B, 4D, F0, 64, 89, 0D, 00, 00, 00, 00, 59, 5F, 5F, 5E, 5B, 8B, E5, 5D, 51, C3, 56, 6A, 01, 68, D4, 73, 41, 00, 8B, F1, E8, 05, 42, 00, 00, C7, 06, BC, 31, 41, 00, 8B, C6, 5E, C3, C7, 01...
 
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Entropy:
4.8723

Code size:
68 KB (69,632 bytes)

Startup File (All Users Run)
Registry location:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

Name:
FBSearch

Command:
C:\Program Files\fast browser searchp\fastbrowsersearchprotection.exe


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