findyourmaps.8aa614d1724146f29e3c0ad8dd80fd52.exe

FindYourMaps

Mindspark Interactive Network

This is the installer stub for the Mindspark (Mindspark Interactive Network, Inc./Ask) browser toolbar which provides the offer to the end user to install the toolbar and set the browser's search, home page and new tab to an Ask.com search destination. The application findyourmaps.8aa614d1724146f29e3c0ad8dd80fd52.exe, “FindYourMaps Setup” by Mindspark Interactive Network has been detected as a potentially unwanted program 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 NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) installer.
Publisher:
Mindspark Interactive Network, Inc.  (signed by Mindspark Interactive Network)

Product:
FindYourMaps

Description:
FindYourMaps Setup

Version:
2.7.1.1000

MD5:
d56a6ac86d6b35470fb1795e6580ffcc

SHA-1:
7ccb0ea1a5a8e267142db0a1021ed88d46496bd4

SHA-256:
3b32be6888361bf0ee5e661d7c6e2caa623f9c485d4fe3e5f0f7f32e1d62a1f4

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

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 9:59:29 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Mindspark (M)
16.10.25.0

File size:
366.8 KB (375,648 bytes)

Product version:
2.7.1.1000

Copyright:
© 2015 Mindspark Interactive Network, Inc. An IAC Company. All rights reserved.

Trademarks:
® & ™ Mindspark Interactive Network, Inc. An IAC Company. All rights reserved.

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\microsoft\windows\inetcache\ie\{random}\findyourmaps.8aa614d1724146f29e3c0ad8dd80fd52.exe

Digital Signature
Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
4/19/2015 5:00:00 PM

Valid to:
6/18/2018 4:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Mindspark Interactive Network, O=Mindspark Interactive Network, L=Yonkers, S=New York, 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:
438D4291E43C2DFFEEAAAEE5B6C070B5

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
12/24/2013 9:01:44 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
6144:+bUTp1mfyrwMeKTpf8A0+M+/87wBeat1RAAx94DqoJt8CXPRSDJikrHLAPS7EQRq:+I2XZwF87wBe2Rf4Dqon82PRSDskrHM9

Entry address:
0x3229

Entry point:
81, EC, D4, 02, 00, 00, 53, 55, 56, 57, 6A, 20, 33, ED, 5E, 89, 6C, 24, 14, C7, 44, 24, 10, D8, A2, 40, 00, 89, 6C, 24, 1C, FF, 15, 34, 80, 40, 00, 68, 01, 80, 00, 00, FF, 15, 34, 81, 40, 00, 55, FF, 15, AC, 82, 40, 00, 6A, 08, A3, 58, 4F, 43, 00, E8, 9F, 2E, 00, 00, A3, A4, 4E, 43, 00, 55, 8D, 44, 24, 34, 68, B4, 02, 00, 00, 50, 55, 68, B8, B1, 42, 00, FF, 15, 7C, 81, 40, 00, 68, C0, A2, 40, 00, 68, A0, 3E, 43, 00, E8, 0A, 2B, 00, 00, FF, 15, 38, 81, 40, 00, BB, 00, F0, 43, 00, 50, 53, E8, F8, 2A, 00, 00...
 
[+]

Entropy:
7.9211

Packer / compiler:
Nullsoft install system v2.x

Code size:
24.5 KB (25,088 bytes)

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The executing file has been seen to make the following network communications in live environments.

TCP (HTTP SSL):
Connects to 74.113.233.180.df.iaccap.com  (74.113.233.180:443)

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Connects to 74.113.237.180.lv.iaccap.com  (74.113.237.180:443)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to 74.113.233.192.df.iaccap.com  (74.113.233.192:80)

TCP (HTTP SSL):
Connects to a23-50-230-29.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com  (23.50.230.29:443)

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Connects to a23-79-14-3.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com  (23.79.14.3:443)

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Connects to a23-209-94-3.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com  (23.209.94.3:443)

TCP (HTTP SSL):
Connects to a96-16-14-64.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com  (96.16.14.64:443)

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TCP (HTTP SSL):
Connects to a23-58-159-184.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com  (23.58.159.184:443)

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Connects to a23-40-69-164.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com  (23.40.69.164:443)

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Connects to a23-220-124-187.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com  (23.220.124.187:443)

TCP (HTTP SSL):
Connects to a23-202-233-10.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com  (23.202.233.10:443)

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Connects to a23-195-94-3.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com  (23.195.94.3:443)

TCP (HTTP SSL):
Connects to a184-24-118-39.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com  (184.24.118.39:443)