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OUTBROWSE

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 OUTBROWSE has been detected as adware by 14 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the OutBrowse Revenyou installer. The setup routine uses the RevenYou.Com Pay Per Install platform (OutBrowse) which bundles additional software offers inclduing toolbars, extensions, PC utilities as well as other PUPs.
Publisher:
OUTBROWSE  (signed and verified)

MD5:
7dcdc30a5212feb9e31dd729def48b0f

SHA-1:
7e98641bce281a609212eedc7e151994fdab2f95

SHA-256:
d473d512fd6d2920cd6a5388d3ef7f3df9810e575a880f3662b837bdf5cbd9fd

Scanner detections:
14 / 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:
5/7/2024 3:20:13 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Agnitum Outpost
PUA.OutBrowse
7.1.1

AVG
Generic
2015.0.3344

Dr.Web
Adware.Downware.2081
9.0.1.0265

ESET NOD32
Win32/OutBrowse.AT
8.10477

G Data
Win32.Application.Outbrowse
14.9.24

herdProtect (fuzzy)
variant of spybot_setup.exe (Adware)
2014.12.4.12

IKARUS anti.virus
PUA.OutBrowse
t3scan.1.7.8.0

K7 AntiVirus
Unwanted-Program
13.183.13504

Kaspersky
not-a-virus:AdWare.Win32.OutBrowse
14.0.0.3213

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.OutBrowse
v2014.09.22.08

McAfee
Adware-OutBrowse.a
5600.6927

Reason Heuristics
PUP.OUTBROWSE.M
14.9.22.7

Sophos
OutBrowse Revenyou
4.98

VIPRE Antivirus
Threat.4784459
32938

File size:
556.6 KB (570,008 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
OUTBROWSE

Authority:
COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:
4/7/2014 3:00:00 AM

Valid to:
4/8/2015 2:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=OUTBROWSE, O=OUTBROWSE, STREET=Bialik Number: 143, L=Ramat Gan, S=Israel, PostalCode=5252337, C=IL

Issuer:
CN=COMODO Code Signing CA 2, O=COMODO CA Limited, L=Salford, S=Greater Manchester, C=GB

Serial number:
00A5F03C3A375C11FD6C1C160EE8BFF923

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:PAd9HqJxg+WJY8yB6iVKy6wMpslKgAXGF9TMNDj+m:PmyW+WJY+4KHwMpsBh9IN3

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:
7.9763

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 2 URLs.

http://get.downloaddesktop3.info/.../Get?p=2329&d=9963&l=9408&n=1

http://get.download2desktop.com/.../Get?downloadtime=1411364587&p=2329&d=9963&l=9408&n=1

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