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SearchSettings.exe

Search Settings

Best Social Feed Inc.

The application SearchSettings.exe by Best Social Feed has been detected as adware by 4 anti-malware scanners. This file is typically installed with the program Search Software by Best Social Feed Inc. which is a potentially unwanted software program.

File name:

SearchSettings.exe

Publisher:

Best Social Feed Inc. (signed and verified)

Product:

Search Settings

Version:

2.0.0.1

MD5:

6ad8b47705ce6df0b254077d79595a87

SHA-1:

41baabe8d6e28edb3152f66b41aed28564921668

SHA-256:

272d5e8157b35c0c2f3fca2b9fc3490128a5b76046818c8b2092f40656421606

Scanner detections:

4 / 68

Status:

Adware

Analysis date:

4/23/2024 9:51:56 PM UTC (today)

Scan engine

Detection

Engine version

AVG

BestSocial

2016.0.3174

ESET NOD32

Win32/InfoAxe.G potentially unwanted (variant)

9.11285

McAfee

Artemis!6AD8B47705CE

5600.6830

Reason Heuristics

PUP.BestSocialFeed

15.3.11.5

File size:

174.3 KB (178,456 bytes)

Product version:

2.0.0.1

Original file name:

SearchSettings.exe

File type:

Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:

English (United States)

Common path:

C:\Program Files\search software\searchsettings.exe

Digital Signature

Signed by:

Best Social Feed Inc.

Authority:

VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:

10/22/2013 4:00:00 AM

Valid to:

10/22/2016 3:59:59 AM

Subject:

CN=Best Social Feed Inc., OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O=Best Social Feed Inc., L=Cupertino, S=California, 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:

75C790FD141329AA8211A778C6FD6844

File PE Metadata

Compilation timestamp:

11/23/2013 6:58:34 AM

OS version:

5.1

OS bitness:

Win32

Subsystem:

Windows GUI

Linker version:

10.0

CTPH (ssdeep):

3072:26lckgELTcQaZLcz1mp99s4WNfVTTRoElWbnPXNxqoVPb0fcH2EKUAP3QbN:26lpPLTcNzs4WvTRsLvNxqoVgfnNLP3U

Entry address:

0xE6F3

Entry point:

E8, F6, 5B, 00, 00, E9, 89, FE, FF, FF, CC, CC, CC, 8D, 42, FF, 5B, C3, 8D, A4, 24, 00, 00, 00, 00, 8D, 64, 24, 00, 33, C0, 8A, 44, 24, 08, 53, 8B, D8, C1, E0, 08, 8B, 54, 24, 08, F7, C2, 03, 00, 00, 00, 74, 15, 8A, 0A, 83, C2, 01, 3A, CB, 74, CF, 84, C9, 74, 51, F7, C2, 03, 00, 00, 00, 75, EB, 0B, D8, 57, 8B, C3, C1, E3, 10, 56, 0B, D8, 8B, 0A, BF, FF, FE, FE, 7E, 8B, C1, 8B, F7, 33, CB, 03, F0, 03, F9, 83, F1, FF, 83, F0, FF, 33, CF, 33, C6, 83, C2, 04, 81, E1, 00, 01, 01, 81, 75, 1C, 25, 00, 01, 01, 81... 
[+]

Entropy:

6.5217

Code size:

122 KB (124,928 bytes)

The file SearchSettings.exe has been discovered within the following program.

Search Software by Best Social Feed Inc.

This is a potentially unwanted (PUP) ad-supported (adware) web browser toolbar that will modify the user's search page and provider in order to redirect web searches.

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