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latestnews.exe

Visual Tools

The application latestnews.exe by Visual Tools has been detected as adware by 7 anti-malware scanners. This is a setup program which is used to install the application. 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 dl.cdn-services.com and multiple other hosts.
Publisher:
Visual Tools  (signed and verified)

MD5:
9df8d78a1ddd9be4fe5c215c39acc233

SHA-1:
9b55661ee8cdfbcd812e2ab374474fefff7a3260

SHA-256:
09edc6e07ccf097794988eb31074d078fcc72c405a8913a872e6a5f44f369ffe

Scanner detections:
7 / 68

Status:
Adware

Analysis date:
4/25/2024 12:38:09 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Dr.Web
Trojan.StartPage.56734
9.0.1.0219

ESET NOD32
Win32/Toolbar.Babylon (variant)
8.9753

Fortinet FortiGate
Riskware/Toolbar_Babylon
8/7/2014

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.ToolBarInstaller.A
v2014.08.07.03

McAfee
Artemis!9DF8D78A1DDD
5600.7045

Reason Heuristics
PUP.VisualTools.K
14.8.7.22

Trend Micro House Call
TROJ_GEN.F47V0428
7.2.219

File size:
739 KB (756,760 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Visual Tools

Authority:
Thawte, Inc.

Valid from:
1/9/2013 7:00:00 PM

Valid to:
1/10/2015 6:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Visual Tools, O=Visual Tools, L=Belgrade, S=Serbia, C=RS

Issuer:
CN=Thawte Code Signing CA - G2, O="Thawte, Inc.", C=US

Serial number:
789958B0264F06055619270074AFA61F

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
10/31/2013 11:23:08 AM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
11.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:94R9JUJeD5k0LZUhh/tScZgwDhjALe5/6I1/ZBFn+N6Y8xp2llKMBL6laF1:94FUkDOiUL/tSlwDhkLe5RhBxA68lltx

Entry address:
0x1C35

Entry point:
55, 8B, EC, 83, E4, F8, B8, 7C, 1A, 00, 00, E8, BB, 62, 00, 00, 53, 56, 33, DB, 57, 8D, 8C, 24, E0, 07, 00, 00, 88, 5C, 24, 0E, C6, 44, 24, 0F, 01, E8, E6, 1A, 00, 00, 53, 89, 9C, 24, 3C, 0A, 00, 00, 89, 9C, 24, 40, 0A, 00, 00, 89, 9C, 24, 44, 0A, 00, 00, C7, 84, 24, 48, 0A, 00, 00, 03, 00, 00, 00, FF, 94, 24, 20, 08, 00, 00, 8D, 8C, 24, E0, 07, 00, 00, 89, 84, 24, 34, 0A, 00, 00, E8, 6D, FA, FF, FF, 8D, 8C, 24, E0, 07, 00, 00, E8, DF, FA, FF, FF, 85, C0, 0F, 85, ED, 00, 00, 00, 8D, 44, 24, 10, 50, 8D, 8C...
 
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Entropy:
7.7038

Developed / compiled with:
Microsoft Visual C++

Code size:
30 KB (30,720 bytes)

The file latestnews.exe has been seen being distributed by the following 2 URLs.

http://dl.cdn-services.com/site/files/prtnrp/.../LatestNews.exe

http://upd.info-stream.net/.../

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