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setup.exe

OUTBROWSE

This is the OutBrowse Revenyou installer which bundles offers for additional third party applications that may be unwanted and installed without consent. The application setup.exe by OUTBROWSE has been detected as adware by 14 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the OutBrowse Revenyou installer. The setup routine uses the RevenYou.Com Pay Per Install platform (OutBrowse) which bundles additional software offers inclduing toolbars, extensions, PC utilities as well as other PUPs. The file has been seen being downloaded from get.file2desktop.com.
Publisher:
OUTBROWSE  (signed and verified)

MD5:
99797a10d835bde64a5f94eb6624f79a

SHA-1:
73b99baa74a22d37f5608fc1a9f7b10d179287ac

SHA-256:
27f73c26a706dbfedd88b0a1ce4df1a6c347bf5dcd08dff17e16b433c83b23e8

Scanner detections:
14 / 68

Status:
Adware

Explanation:
Bundles additional adware offers during download and installation using the OutBrowse installer.

Description:
This is also known as bundleware, or downloadware, which is an downloader designed to simply deliver ad-supported offers in the setup routine of an otherwise legitimate software.

Analysis date:
4/25/2024 7:12:54 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

AhnLab V3 Security
PUP/Win32.OutBrowse
2014.08.12

AVG
Generic
2015.0.3385

Dr.Web
Adware.Downware.2081
9.0.1.0224

ESET NOD32
Win32/OutBrowse.AE
8.10240

G Data
Win32.Application.Outbrowse
14.8.24

herdProtect (fuzzy)
variant of ccleaner 4.11.4619.exe (Adware)
2014.10.20.21

K7 AntiVirus
Unwanted-Program
13.183.13014

Kaspersky
not-a-virus:AdWare.Win32.OutBrowse
14.0.0.3418

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.OutBrowse
v2014.08.12.08

McAfee
Trojan.Artemis!A35C03B1C498
5600.7041

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Installer.OUTBROWSE.F
14.8.12.7

Sophos
OutBrowse Revenyou
4.98

Trend Micro House Call
Suspici.57482F4A
7.2.224

VIPRE Antivirus
Threat.4784459
31208

File size:
620.5 KB (635,416 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
OutBrowse Revenyou (using Nullsoft Install System)

Language:
Language Neutral

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
OUTBROWSE

Authority:
COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:
4/7/2014 1:00:00 AM

Valid to:
4/8/2015 12:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=OUTBROWSE, O=OUTBROWSE, STREET=Bialik Number: 143, L=Ramat Gan, S=Israel, PostalCode=5252337, C=IL

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

Serial number:
00A5F03C3A375C11FD6C1C160EE8BFF923

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
12/5/2009 10:50:52 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:1pwX0clFdNeED/dxR6VXluJQqYU1g5w5Thk/H5ihf8F/fc8vy4h:1KEcLdZD/908JrKw5T2cmM86

Entry address:
0x30FA

Entry point:
81, EC, 80, 01, 00, 00, 53, 55, 56, 33, DB, 57, 89, 5C, 24, 18, C7, 44, 24, 10, 60, 91, 40, 00, 33, F6, C6, 44, 24, 14, 20, FF, 15, 30, 70, 40, 00, 68, 01, 80, 00, 00, FF, 15, B0, 70, 40, 00, 53, FF, 15, 7C, 72, 40, 00, 6A, 08, A3, 18, EC, 42, 00, E8, F1, 2B, 00, 00, A3, 64, EB, 42, 00, 53, 8D, 44, 24, 34, 68, 60, 01, 00, 00, 50, 53, 68, 98, 8F, 42, 00, FF, 15, 58, 71, 40, 00, 68, 54, 91, 40, 00, 68, 60, E3, 42, 00, E8, A4, 28, 00, 00, FF, 15, AC, 70, 40, 00, BF, 00, 40, 43, 00, 50, 57, E8, 92, 28, 00, 00...
 
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Entropy:
7.9802

Packer / compiler:
Nullsoft install system v2.x

Code size:
23.5 KB (24,064 bytes)

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

http://get.file2desktop.com/.../Get?p=2328&d=8873&l=8351&n=2

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