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MyTransitGuide

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 mytransitguide.b8917b1812fa441e9722d8ee0fee6476.exe, “MyTransitGuide 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:
MyTransitGuide

Description:
MyTransitGuide Setup

Version:
2.0.1.11

MD5:
f7eec55ca011aa3bd4b69134a93dba19

SHA-1:
0e78644aea4ea5b9b60751d414ea52cd8d7d0f09

SHA-256:
590116419b16a0a1880c0c88c3dc5eb84f2935cd73f0fa54ab99bcd67baca830

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:
4/26/2024 2:00:29 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Mindspark (M)
16.8.4.6

File size:
356.8 KB (365,400 bytes)

Product version:
2.0.1.11

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}\mytransitguide.b8917b1812fa441e9722d8ee0fee6476.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Mindspark Interactive Network

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
4/20/2015 5:30:00 AM

Valid to:
6/19/2018 5:29:59 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 10:31:44 AM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
6144:dbUTp1UqGz3cM+hMD0KAGu+nGfMs/3oC7gK8jEYwUfewdNtYAjjz1dc5ISuZ2S+b:dIEqq3J0KhG//3L7g1XBGwdcAjn1dSRB

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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Entropy:
7.9200

Packer / compiler:
Nullsoft install system v2.x

Code size:
24.5 KB (25,088 bytes)

The file mytransitguide.b8917b1812fa441e9722d8ee0fee6476.exe has been seen being distributed by the following 5 URLs.

http://ak.imgfarm.com/images/nocache/vicinio/installers/v2/222010004.S17399.1/nsis/663887-S17399.1/160714152222387/.../MyTransitGuide.13766acb226e4403aea3f99f7545391d.exe

http://ak.imgfarm.com/images/nocache/vicinio/installers/v2/222010004.S17399.1/nsis/663887-S17399.1/160714152222387/.../MyTransitGuide.67581a318e4b41188d6cdf18fd9d4b73.exe

http://ak.imgfarm.com/images/nocache/vicinio/installers/v2/222010004.S17399.1/nsis/663887-S17399.1/160714152222387/.../MyTransitGuide.b5712cc19b7a49aea1af232d5f67b1ab.exe

http://ak.imgfarm.com/images/nocache/vicinio/installers/v2/222010004.S17399.1/nsis/663887-S17399.1/160714152222387/.../MyTransitGuide.b98267301e104536808f6ebcdb9d0a96.exe

http://ak.imgfarm.com/images/nocache/vicinio/installers/v2/222010004.S17399.1/nsis/663887-S17399.1/160714152222387/.../MyTransitGuide.b8917b1812fa441e9722d8ee0fee6476.exe

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