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Safer Browser

Safer Technologies, Inc

The application saferbrowsersetup.exe by Safer Technologies, Inc has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 10 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) installer. The file has been seen being downloaded from download.safer.com.
Publisher:
Safer Technologies, Inc  (signed and verified)

Product:
Safer Browser

Version:
46.0.2459.153

MD5:
3a979fd827b8349b3c832758db190d01

SHA-1:
d0da11d56883623088722aa897fbd3f71eb0679b

SHA-256:
2ae45d0976d9bf7bad9ca081e3b2a2cf4d45f2c7e2c8ee85a9961a96716411d0

Scanner detections:
10 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Analysis date:
8/11/2025 10:38:29 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Agnitum Outpost
Riskware.Agent
7.1.1

avast!
Win32:Adware-gen [Adw]
2014.9-151028

Clam AntiVirus
Win.Trojan.Generickd-3821
0.98/21511

Dr.Web
Adware.Zugo.132
9.0.1.0301

ESET NOD32
Win32/Distromatic.C potentially unwanted (variant)
9.11288

F-Prot
W32/Kazy.CY.gen
v6.4.7.1.166

McAfee
Artemis!E87FD6B46F95
5600.6599

Reason Heuristics
PUP.SaferTechnologies.Installer (M)
15.10.28.1

Rising Antivirus
NS:AdWare.Script.VBS.StartPage.g!1579249
23.00.65.151026

Vba32 AntiVirus
suspected of Trojan.Downloader.gen.h
3.12.26.3

File size:
1.3 MB (1,380,328 bytes)

Product version:
46.0.2459.153

Copyright:
Safer Technologies LLC

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)

Language:
English (United States)

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Safer Technologies, Inc

Authority:
COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:
2/26/2014 2:00:00 AM

Valid to:
2/27/2016 1:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN="Safer Technologies, Inc", OU=Applied Cryptography, O="Safer Technologies, Inc", STREET=2711 CENTERVILLE RD STE 400, L=NEW CASTLE, S=DE, PostalCode=19808, C=US

Issuer:
CN=COMODO Code Signing CA 2, O=COMODO CA Limited, L=Salford, S=Greater Manchester, C=GB

Serial number:
00AD7775F77C246C94E75D0D23C8F43D9B

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
8/5/2015 3:46:30 AM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:OSeRRdsdmZNWx/P1mTn3G1q6q2A4SY83Xelwk2ofg2HjpPVmRIEVR/FlBFxr8bia:os8o/sik2Mwwk2o9HFPVLEV7lBFd8bia

Entry address:
0x335A

Entry point:
81, EC, D8, 02, 00, 00, 53, 55, 56, 57, 6A, 20, 33, ED, 5E, 89, 6C, 24, 18, C7, 44, 24, 10, 30, 92, 40, 00, 89, 6C, 24, 14, FF, 15, 34, 70, 40, 00, 68, 01, 80, 00, 00, FF, 15, BC, 70, 40, 00, 55, FF, 15, AC, 72, 40, 00, 6A, 09, A3, B8, 92, 42, 00, E8, 59, 2F, 00, 00, A3, 04, 92, 42, 00, 55, 8D, 44, 24, 38, 68, B4, 02, 00, 00, 50, 55, 68, A8, 06, 42, 00, FF, 15, 7C, 71, 40, 00, 68, 7C, 93, 40, 00, 68, 00, 82, 42, 00, E8, C4, 2B, 00, 00, FF, 15, 34, 71, 40, 00, BB, 00, 40, 43, 00, 50, 53, E8, B2, 2B, 00, 00...
 
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Entropy:
7.9840

Packer / compiler:
Nullsoft install system v2.x

Code size:
24 KB (24,576 bytes)

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

http://download.safer.com/.../SaferBrowserSetup.exe

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