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StART Playing

This is the OutBrowse Revenyou installer which bundles offers for additional third party applications that may be unwanted and installed without consent. The application installation.exe by StART Playing has been detected as adware by 8 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the OutBrowse Revenyou installer. According to AVG, this software downloads additional adware offers during setup. The file has been seen being downloaded from get.file26desktop.com.
Publisher:
StART Playing  (signed and verified)

MD5:
f2cfa3c02b495bc1326e8b55b9b92a45

SHA-1:
4a9e93bac235745f791b58f6d778819217b8cc86

SHA-256:
0584f95a2388bcf91542079b4aad66d03367cc6b19e22681b33c1ce25d919981

Scanner detections:
8 / 68

Status:
Adware

Explanation:
Bundles additional adware offers during download and installation using the OutBrowse installer.

Description:
This 'download manager' is also considered bundleware, a utility designed to download software (possibly legitimate or opensource) and bundle it with a number of optional offers including ad-supported utilities, toolbars, shopping comparison tools and browser extensions.

Analysis date:
5/9/2024 2:14:44 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

AhnLab V3 Security
PUP/Win32.OutBrowse
2015.01.21

Avira AntiVirus
APPL/Outbrowse.Gen
7.11.203.138

AVG
Downloader
2016.0.3223

Dr.Web
Trojan.OutBrowse.58
9.0.1.05190

ESET NOD32
Win32/OutBrowse.BS potentially unwanted application
7.0.302.0

IKARUS anti.virus
PUA.OutBrowse
t3scan.1.8.6.0

McAfee
Adware-OutBrowse.e
5600.6879

Reason Heuristics
PUP.StARTPlaying
15.1.20.11

File size:
573.7 KB (587,424 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
OutBrowse Revenyou (using Nullsoft Install System)

Language:
Language Neutral

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\installation.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
StART Playing

Authority:
thawte, Inc.

Valid from:
1/19/2015 12:00:00 AM

Valid to:
12/11/2015 11:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=StART Playing, O=StART Playing, L=Dublin, S=Dublin, C=IE

Issuer:
CN=thawte SHA256 Code Signing CA, O="thawte, Inc.", C=US

Serial number:
58DF35F2B2CFE8E44EF980DD11E01B9F

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
12/5/2009 10:50:52 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:InI5HSxHOOMuKIX0p6poP1vtN7DPFbwjIY7OnQrBHL:IiyUOMCCKoP1rXmjHGQrZ

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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Entropy:
7.9707

Packer / compiler:
Nullsoft install system v2.x

Code size:
23.5 KB (24,064 bytes)

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

http://get.file26desktop.com/.../get?p=7392&d=10083&l=9525&n=1&dt=1413727118

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