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giant_savings.exe

Enchanted Apps

This is the installer application for a 50onRed advertising supported software package (displays ads in the browser and may hijack the home and search pages of the web browser). The application giant_savings.exe by Enchanted Apps 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 Nullsoft Install System installer. It is also typically executed from an Internet Explorer cache folder. The file has been seen being downloaded from updatesrv-a.akamaihd.net.
Publisher:
Enchanted Apps  (signed and verified)

MD5:
777b56a7e742ea965e01fbe2d51641dc

SHA-1:
a7c1f4aa051280989f73e72a7a107ad068cd99b9

SHA-256:
8afdb29b5f0fbf6464ca72b71db8058491f18bf02f0e1f9e23d6c15af545df5a

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:
4/19/2024 7:01:01 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.50OnRed (M)
17.2.15.9

File size:
481.4 KB (492,944 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
Nullsoft Install System

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\microsoft\windows\temporary internet files\content.ie5\{random}\giant_savings.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Enchanted Apps

Authority:
Thawte, Inc.

Valid from:
6/3/2013 5:00:00 PM

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

Subject:
CN=Enchanted Apps, O=Enchanted Apps, L=Philadelphia, S=Pennsylvania, C=US

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

Serial number:
0AD2FFB9C41506FA798B6D0457ECFD21

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
2/19/2012 7:01:49 AM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.22

Entry address:
0x4327

Entry point:
55, 89, E5, 57, 56, 53, 81, EC, AC, 01, 00, 00, FF, 15, 74, 93, 42, 00, C7, 04, 24, 01, 80, 00, 00, FF, 15, 58, 94, 42, 00, 53, C7, 04, 24, 00, 00, 00, 00, FF, 15, 98, 94, 42, 00, 56, A3, 40, 7B, 42, 00, C7, 04, 24, 08, 00, 00, 00, E8, 8D, 3B, 00, 00, A3, 9C, 7B, 42, 00, 8D, 85, 84, FE, FF, FF, 57, C7, 44, 24, 10, 00, 00, 00, 00, C7, 44, 24, 0C, 60, 01, 00, 00, 89, 44, 24, 08, C7, 44, 24, 04, 00, 00, 00, 00, C7, 04, 24, 01, B3, 40, 00, FF, 15, AC, 94, 42, 00, 83, EC, 14, C7, 44, 24, 04, 02, B3, 40, 00, C7...
 
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Entropy:
7.8836  (probably packed)

Code size:
34.5 KB (35,328 bytes)

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

https://updatesrv-a.akamaihd.net/.../.eJxFjUEKwyAQRe8yawkqgYKXCVOdpKZjFMc2hdK7d3bZvv8e_wsD5QkB8iEDmamDgTd1yfVQ6iY7eetm673T4ZLC6C8yQJ-x5KRi4i3tua2N8MGtlD1GRqKaWirK4xUvK-MmEGZ7M3Dv9RR9g-B-f5akLy8.yGM4emm6q_WuYuZICmIaN57lzKk

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