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installer.exe

GoforFiles

Righway Technologies, Inc

This is the Via Advertising bundle installer which bundles applications with offers for additional 3rd party software, mostly unwanted adware, and may be installed with minimal consent. The application installer.exe by Righway Technologies, Inc has been detected as adware by 25 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the YourFile Downloader installer. This file is typically installed with the program GoforFiles by Righway Technologies, Inc which is a potentially unwanted software program. This will display context specific advertisements in the browser as well as attempt to modify the browser's search provider.

File name:

installer.exe

Publisher:

http://www.goforfiles.com/ (signed by Righway Technologies, Inc)

Product:

GoforFiles

Version:

1, 0, 0, 464

MD5:

5f44053b9e091f9da8abb90dbc29df3f

SHA-1:

4f97df5a777e8acd0aff6836b0b5ba06c9483fc3

SHA-256:

39c69f6a17e3bb74eabea6f28e7db9c38412ea5ec2fe234fa7061454fa423740

Scanner detections:

25 / 68

Status:

Adware

Explanation:

The installer may include an offer for the Babylon Toolbar (a homepage/search hijacker), which is potentially installed with minimal user consent.

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:

4/18/2024 9:27:46 AM UTC (today)

Scan engine

Detection

Engine version

Agnitum Outpost

Riskware.Agent

7.1.1

AhnLab V3 Security

PUP/Win32.ExpressFiles

2014.01.14

Avira AntiVirus

Adware/ExpressFiles.A

7.11.110.156

avast!

Win32:PUP-gen [PUP]

2014.9-140411

AVG

Skodna.Generic_r

2015.0.3498

Baidu Antivirus

Trojan.Win32.YourFileDownloader

4.0.3.14420

Bkav FE

W32.Clod57e.Trojan

1.3.0.4923

Comodo Security

ApplicUnwnt.Win32.AdWare.Agent.~A

16192

Dr.Web

Adware.Downware.1879

9.0.1.0101

Emsisoft Anti-Malware

Trojan.Generic.10243911

8.14.04.20.09

ESET NOD32

Win32/ExpressDownloader (variant)

8.9285

Fortinet FortiGate

Adware/YourFileDownloader

4/20/2014

G Data

Win32.Application.Expressdownloader

14.8.24

IKARUS anti.virus

AdWare.ExpressFiles

t3scan.2.2.29

K7 AntiVirus

Unwanted-Program

13.175.10825

Malwarebytes

PUP.Optional.GoForFiles.A

v2014.04.11.10

McAfee

Artemis!5F44053B9E09

5600.7164

NANO AntiVirus

Trojan.Win32.Babylon.csuksh

0.28.0.59921

Reason Heuristics

PUP.RighwayTechnologies.J

14.8.7.21

Rising Antivirus

PE:PUF.GoForFiles!1.9F70

23.00.65.14418

Sophos

Go For Files

4.96

Trend Micro House Call

TROJ_GEN.F47V1225

7.2.101

Trend Micro

TROJ_SPNR.08BK13

10.465.20

VIPRE Antivirus

ExpressFiles Installer

25398

XVirus List

Win32.Detected

2.5.21

File size:

6.3 MB (6,615,664 bytes)

Product version:

2,0,0,0

Original file name:

GoforFiles.exe

File type:

Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:

YourFile Downloader

Language:

Language Neutral

Common path:

C:\users\{user}\downloads\installer.exe

Digital Signature

Signed by:

Righway Technologies, Inc

Authority:

COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:

8/21/2012 6:00:00 PM

Valid to:

8/22/2015 5:59:59 PM

Subject:

CN="Righway Technologies, Inc", O="Righway Technologies, Inc", STREET="1740 H Dell Range Blvd #281", L=Cheyenne, S=Wyoming, PostalCode=82009, C=US

Issuer:

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

Serial number:

0089B8C147F063769F8D685962C161E027

File PE Metadata

Compilation timestamp:

12/24/2013 2:04:41 AM

OS version:

5.1

OS bitness:

Win32

Subsystem:

Windows GUI

Linker version:

10.0

CTPH (ssdeep):

98304:1vJLOjZzaYfFeBlwnxmChuX+fdwTJ4jfbYay0cmxkwQ8jx+TFFIXYyi0wC4wU6po:1vmZVbR0KCTJ4jTYe/xJyTgci66pMT

Entry address:

0x29486

Entry point:

E8, 28, BD, 00, 00, E9, 89, FE, FF, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 57, 56, 8B, 75, 0C, 8B, 4D, 10, 8B, 7D, 08, 8B, C1, 8B, D1, 03, C6, 3B, FE, 76, 08, 3B, F8, 0F, 82, A0, 01, 00, 00, 81, F9, 80, 00, 00, 00, 72, 1C, 83, 3D, 04, 4C, 45, 00, 00, 74, 13, 57, 56, 83, E7, 0F, 83, E6, 0F, 3B, FE, 5E, 5F, 75, 05, E9, DF, 5C, 00, 00, F7, C7, 03, 00, 00, 00, 75, 14, C1, E9, 02, 83, E2, 03, 83, F9, 08, 72, 29, F3, A5, FF, 24, 95, 00, 96, 42, 00, 8B, C7, BA, 03, 00, 00, 00, 83, E9, 04, 72, 0C, 83, E0, 03, 03, C8, FF, 24, 85, 14, 95... 
[+]

Entropy:

7.9207 (probably packed)

Code size:

252.5 KB (258,560 bytes)

The file installer.exe has been discovered within the following program.

GoforFiles by Righway Technologies, Inc

GoforFiles bundles various adware toolbars including the Delta Search Toolbar (an adware toolbar that modifies the user's web browser home page, search settings and other settings).

www.goforfiles.com

70% remove it

The file installer.exe has been seen being distributed by the following 3 URLs.

http://download.informer.com/.../installer.exe

http://goforfiles.software.informer.com/.../

http://www.goforfiles.com/installer.exe

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