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MergeDocsOnline

Mindspark Interactive Network

This is the installer stub for the Mindspark (Mindspark Interactive Network, Inc./Ask) browser toolbar which provides the offer to the end user to install the toolbar and set the browser's search, home page and new tab to an Ask.com search destination. The application mergedocsonline.f8f9ab1d7b4449c3814430ab887e0a50.exe, “MergeDocsOnline Setup” by Mindspark Interactive Network has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. The program is a setup application that uses the NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) installer.
Publisher:
Mindspark Interactive Network, Inc.  (signed by Mindspark Interactive Network)

Product:
MergeDocsOnline

Description:
MergeDocsOnline Setup

Version:
3.3.0.6

MD5:
cd650dda0908e17c09b4ea5a7d0d3311

SHA-1:
2c0a583b36511ebab64a39b45524818757c57779

SHA-256:
e8531fa4fd6ed5b1ea826253c7dcfc709abcf4be7a8ba14162e9ef0e5df12ecd

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Note:
Our current pool of anti-malware engines have not currently detected this file, however based on our own detection heuristics we feel that this file is unwanted.

Analysis date:
4/25/2024 4:08:12 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Mindspark.MindsparkInteractiveNetwork.Installer (M)
16.1.26.10

File size:
334.8 KB (342,832 bytes)

Product version:
3.3.0.6

Copyright:
© 2015 Mindspark Interactive Network, Inc. An IAC Company. All rights reserved.

Trademarks:
® & ™ Mindspark Interactive Network, Inc. An IAC Company. All rights reserved.

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\microsoft\windows\inetcache\ie\{random}\mergedocsonline.f8f9ab1d7b4449c3814430ab887e0a50.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Mindspark Interactive Network

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
4/20/2015 1:00:00 AM

Valid to:
6/19/2018 12:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=Mindspark Interactive Network, O=Mindspark Interactive Network, L=Yonkers, S=New York, C=US

Issuer:
CN=VeriSign Class 3 Code Signing 2010 CA, OU=Terms of use at https://www.verisign.com/rpa (c)10, OU=VeriSign Trust Network, O="VeriSign, Inc.", C=US

Serial number:
438D4291E43C2DFFEEAAAEE5B6C070B5

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
12/25/2013 6:01:44 AM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
6144:RbUTp1OnCLtsNtUSM+3fsFsx/ST0UD5USXABoG5bG0POQOL6nXh4TPI1:RI+ChaSC420vGSXAV5FmQI6Xik

Entry address:
0x3229

Entry point:
81, EC, D4, 02, 00, 00, 53, 55, 56, 57, 6A, 20, 33, ED, 5E, 89, 6C, 24, 14, C7, 44, 24, 10, D8, A2, 40, 00, 89, 6C, 24, 1C, FF, 15, 34, 80, 40, 00, 68, 01, 80, 00, 00, FF, 15, 34, 81, 40, 00, 55, FF, 15, AC, 82, 40, 00, 6A, 08, A3, 58, 4F, 43, 00, E8, 9F, 2E, 00, 00, A3, A4, 4E, 43, 00, 55, 8D, 44, 24, 34, 68, B4, 02, 00, 00, 50, 55, 68, B8, B1, 42, 00, FF, 15, 7C, 81, 40, 00, 68, C0, A2, 40, 00, 68, A0, 3E, 43, 00, E8, 0A, 2B, 00, 00, FF, 15, 38, 81, 40, 00, BB, 00, F0, 43, 00, 50, 53, E8, F8, 2A, 00, 00...
 
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Packer / compiler:
Nullsoft install system v2.x

Code size:
24.5 KB (25,088 bytes)

The file mergedocsonline.f8f9ab1d7b4449c3814430ab887e0a50.exe has been seen being distributed by the following 2 URLs.

http://ak.imgfarm.com/images/nocache/vicinio/installers/v2/224300049.S14431.1/nsis/560824-S14431.1/151027155527927/.../MergeDocsOnline.d3c43779a70445688505f0f9c3df5e4d.exe

http://ak.imgfarm.com/images/nocache/vicinio/installers/v2/224300049.S14431.1/nsis/560824-S14431.1/151027155527927/.../MergeDocsOnline.f8f9ab1d7b4449c3814430ab887e0a50.exe

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