installation.exe

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 22 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.
Publisher:
StART Playing  (signed and verified)

MD5:
ed40e438f332afd6663ac2c1a2feb68d

SHA-1:
4f65b6d8e628d61844eed54cf80ecf70858ea1b1

SHA-256:
3233326edc225447bc650b6654471239420021a296e8c02ce879beca7ae6e139

Scanner detections:
22 / 68

Status:
Adware

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

Description:
This is also known as bundleware, or downloadware, which is an downloader designed to simply deliver ad-supported offers in the setup routine of an otherwise legitimate software.

Analysis date:
5/9/2024 2:20:08 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler.Outbrowse.1
6388637

Agnitum Outpost
PUA.OutBrowse
7.1.1

AhnLab V3 Security
PUP/Win32.OutBrowse
2015.02.14

Avira AntiVirus
APPL/Outbrowse.Gen
7.11.210.48

AVG
Potentially harmful program Downloader.DGF
2014.0.4257

Bitdefender
Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler.Outbrowse.1
1.0.20.220

Comodo Security
Application.Win32.AltBrowse.HY
21068

Dr.Web
Trojan.OutBrowse.58
9.0.1.05190

Emsisoft Anti-Malware
Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler.Outbrowse
9.0.0.4799

ESET NOD32
Win32/OutBrowse.BU potentially unwanted application
7.0.302.0

Fortinet FortiGate
Riskware/OutBrowse
2/13/2015

F-Secure
Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler
11.2015-13-02_6

G Data
Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler.Outbrowse
15.2.25

K7 AntiVirus
DoS-Trojan
13.194.14962

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.OutBrowse
v2015.02.13.11

McAfee
Program.Adware-OutBrowse.e
16.8.708.2

MicroWorld eScan
Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler.Outbrowse.1
16.0.0.132

NANO AntiVirus
Trojan.Win32.OutBrowse.dnberl
0.30.0.65070

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Outbrowse
15.2.13.23

Trend Micro House Call
Suspici.F4CBE3E4
7.2.44

VIPRE Antivirus
Threat.4823950
37240

File size:
575.6 KB (589,368 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

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

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:

Authority:
thawte, Inc.

Valid from:
1/19/2015 2:00:00 AM

Valid to:
12/12/2015 1:59:59 AM

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:
12/6/2009 12:50:52 AM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:lj+FvEZ/38muzmva6cA6A8PiSFUOwhPT8ViJrUTPHV:ljjZ/M/mRQRwVTw8gTt

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)

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