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 will display context specific advertisements in the browser as well as attempt to modify the browser's search provider. The file has been seen being downloaded from www.goforfiles.com.
Publisher:
http://www.goforfiles.com/  (signed by Righway Technologies, Inc)

Product:
GoforFiles

Version:
1, 0, 0, 464

MD5:
d54212fd6684933a01936f451b774b15

SHA-1:
5c0e91a8fd7106f21c1d3b6abde20d13b7dfa91c

SHA-256:
d95ac683bb5b5d764a30ea237aa7fc28aae43820b6ea206e0bcd573c9b913b9c

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 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:
4/23/2024 6:06:26 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:Adware-gen [Adw]
2014.9-140413

AVG
MalSign.Righway Technologies
2015.0.3389

Baidu Antivirus
Trojan.Win32.YourFileDownloader
4.0.3.1487

Bkav FE
W32.Clod57e.Trojan
1.3.0.4923

Comodo Security
ApplicUnwnt.Win32.AdWare.Agent.~A
16192

Dr.Web
Adware.Downware.2078
9.0.1.0103

Emsisoft Anti-Malware
Trojan.Generic.10243911
8.14.08.07.09

ESET NOD32
Win32/ExpressDownloader (variant)
8.9672

Fortinet FortiGate
Adware/YourFileDownloader
8/7/2014

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
v2014.04.13.09

McAfee
Artemis!5F44053B9E09
5600.7045

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
23.00.65.14411

Sophos
Go For Files
4.98

Trend Micro House Call
TROJ_GEN.F47V1225
7.2.219

Trend Micro
TROJ_SPNR.08BK13
10.465.07

VIPRE Antivirus
ExpressFiles Installer
28214

XVirus List
Win32.Detected
2.5.21

File size:
7.5 MB (7,816,632 bytes)

Product version:
2,0,0,0

Copyright:
Copyright http://www.goforfiles.com/ (C) 2012

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
Authority:
COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:
8/22/2012 1:00:00 AM

Valid to:
8/23/2015 12:59:59 AM

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:
3/28/2014 2:32:59 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
10.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
196608:DKzwZD0rBfPg8d55riRJ4jTYDpDqDwtJyTgV:DKckhX5WRbDx/yI

Entry address:
0x2D8D6

Entry point:
E8, C8, CB, 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, BC, 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, 50, DA, 42, 00, 8B, C7, BA, 03, 00, 00, 00, 83, E9, 04, 72, 0C, 83, E0, 03, 03, C8, FF, 24, 85, 64, D9...
 
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Entropy:
7.9369  (probably packed)

Code size:
278 KB (284,672 bytes)

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

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