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installation.exe

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 18 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:
c6e75312036d57d1b26d208f8e763dd2

SHA-1:
b500c07b7d3d8d5c71443c6810e8f766cebdd1e2

SHA-256:
eaa08289f94ddc2fd859169da31d8e98869945dc1c73b193a79c3840697471ea

Scanner detections:
18 / 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:
4/19/2024 10:30:52 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Agnitum Outpost
PUA.OutBrowse
7.1.1

Avira AntiVirus
APPL/Downloader.Gen
7.11.170.42

AVG
Generic
2015.0.3347

Clam AntiVirus
Win.Trojan.Outbrowse
0.98/21411

Dr.Web
Adware.Downware.2081
9.0.1.0261

ESET NOD32
Win32/OutBrowse.AN
8.10437

G Data
Win32.Application.Outbrowse
14.9.24

herdProtect (fuzzy)
variant of setup.exe (Adware)
2014.11.23.19

IKARUS anti.virus
PUA.OutBrowse
t3scan.1.7.8.0

K7 AntiVirus
Unwanted-Program
13.183.13218

Kaspersky
not-a-virus:AdWare.Win32.OutBrowse
14.0.0.3233

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.OutBrowse
v2014.09.18.02

McAfee
Adware-OutBrowse
5600.7003

NANO AntiVirus
Trojan.Win32.OutBrowse.deioif
0.28.2.61861

Reason Heuristics
PUP.OUTBROWSE.M
14.9.18.8

Sophos
OutBrowse Revenyou
4.98

Vba32 AntiVirus
AdWare.OutBrowse
3.12.26.3

VIPRE Antivirus
Threat.4784459
32210

File size:
564.9 KB (578,496 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:
OUTBROWSE

Authority:
COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:
4/6/2014 5:00:00 PM

Valid to:
4/7/2015 4:59:59 PM

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:
12/5/2009 3:50:52 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:1HerwZ6oeqD7zh9C0aisYJpqIxQ3qGdNLB9ozGxfynv:1+rwZ6ozDXrvrJZQ3BKax+

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:
7.9767

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.

https://secure-lax.adnxs.com/click?ePWPwmZxyj_7cYbpJFjGPwAAAAAAAPA_-3GG6SRYxj949Y_CZnHKP9r7blU0vFxxfI29-gfsSWhGZ_9TAAAAAEsmNAA_AQAA_AcAAAIAAAAx7ekA3NUGAAAAAQBVU0QAVVNEACwB-gDR-wAAMK4AAgUAAQIAAJAAyCmmJgAAAAA./cnd=!hgYVPgjRmO8BELHapwcY3KsbIAE./referrer=mail.google.com/clickenc=http://get.file2desktop.com/.../Get?p=8723&d=12098&l=11517&n=1&productname=GoogleChrome&d1=103&d2=3417675&clickid=UAT_lax1CPya9tX_gPukaBACGNr3u6vFhq-ucSIMNjguOTguMjIuMTU0KAEwxs79nwU.

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