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Freegies JewelQuest 3

OutBrowse LTD

This is the OutBrowse Revenyou installer which bundles offers for additional third party applications that may be unwanted and installed without consent. The application jewelquest3.exe by OutBrowse has been detected as adware by 11 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:
Freegies  (signed by OutBrowse LTD)

Product:
Freegies JewelQuest 3

Version:
1.0

MD5:
714e73ba3b9a767c263ed48b76c36efa

SHA-1:
a3cbc87bb3bc84e9fc64e419025fb1e91150bbee

SHA-256:
e528fe4c927b51546c75e1ec5ee3de60faa18629faf33b963f68c56ea540f12f

Scanner detections:
11 / 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:
4/23/2024 11:10:23 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Avira AntiVirus
Adware/OutBrowse.N.2
7.11.127.128

AVG
MalSign.Generic
2015.0.3499

Bkav FE
W32.Clod3c2.Trojan
1.3.0.4959

Dr.Web
Adware.Downware.1336
9.0.1.0110

ESET NOD32
Win32/OutBrowse (variant)
8.9552

herdProtect (fuzzy)
variant of freegiez_minecraft.exe (Adware)
2014.7.18.19

K7 AntiVirus
Unwanted-Program
13.176.11451

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.Smart
v2014.04.20.07

Reason Heuristics
PUP.OutBrowse.L
14.8.7.17

Sophos
OutBrowse Revenyou
4.98

Trend Micro House Call
TROJ_GEN.R0CBH05BK14
7.2.199

File size:
573.4 KB (587,152 bytes)

Copyright:
© Freegies JewelQuest 3

Trademarks:
Freegies JewelQuest 3

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

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

Language:
Language Neutral

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\jewelquest3.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
OutBrowse LTD

Authority:
Symantec Corporation

Valid from:
2/25/2013 4:00:00 PM

Valid to:
2/26/2014 3:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=OutBrowse LTD, O=OutBrowse LTD, L=Ramat Gan, S=Ramat Gan, C=IL, SERIALNUMBER=514686914, OID.2.5.4.15=Private Organization, OID.1.3.6.1.4.1.311.60.2.1.3=IL

Issuer:
CN=Symantec Class 3 Extended Validation Code Signing CA, OU=Symantec Trust Network, O=Symantec Corporation, C=US

Serial number:
06C1C2AE3E180ADDA27BBF2BD8EAC0E7

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
12/5/2009 2:50:52 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:OS07uEQkNAhM9hJ6ocfFqomhGyvfQPr0zLho:OSIuEFRJ/d7vfQD0zd

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:
7.9757

Packer / compiler:
Nullsoft install system v2.x

Code size:
23.5 KB (24,064 bytes)

The file jewelquest3.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

http://s3.amazonaws.com/cdn.ppdownload.com/.../JewelQuest3.exe

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