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setup.exe

Download Manager

staRT PlAyIng

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 staRT PlAyIng has been detected as adware 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 OutBrowse Revenyou installer. The file has been seen being downloaded from get.downward234.info.
Publisher:
staRT PlAyIng  (signed and verified)

Product:
Download Manager

Version:
1.15522.80.0

MD5:
e51d9fe55422204483029bc1eee7e180

SHA-1:
928c59b8e5dab64965f0878757fa203e70570d61

SHA-256:
9d70202b38d90ae1586fac876a129185d7d8197a0f5452937947eeaeec20539c

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Adware

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.

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:
5/15/2024 9:35:05 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Outbrowse.staRTPlAyIng.Bundler (M)
16.2.15.3

File size:
696.2 KB (712,912 bytes)

Product version:
1.15522.80.0

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:
staRT PlAyIng

Authority:
thawte, Inc.

Valid from:
5/18/2015 7:00:00 AM

Valid to:
12/12/2015 6:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=staRT PlAyIng, O=staRT PlAyIng, L=Dublin, S=Dublin, C=IE

Issuer:
CN=thawte SHA256 Code Signing CA, O="thawte, Inc.", C=US

Serial number:
0768DE98A7700CEC69341965A40B088F

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
12/6/2009 5:52:12 AM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:so2w9QARlMKd6fP2kx8uwSJW/+009w0XkvDqxFvVtFFiiuXh+dGStPcW7lkrzFg:so2WQARlLd6n9x8Z/+Xy0UrqxhFFi/xe

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, 1C, 45, 00, E8, F1, 2B, 00, 00, A3, 64, 1B, 45, 00, 53, 8D, 44, 24, 34, 68, 60, 01, 00, 00, 50, 53, 68, 98, 37, 43, 00, FF, 15, 58, 71, 40, 00, 68, 54, 91, 40, 00, 68, 60, DB, 44, 00, E8, A4, 28, 00, 00, FF, 15, AC, 70, 40, 00, BF, 00, A0, 47, 00, 50, 57, E8, 92, 28, 00, 00...
 
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Entropy:
7.9569

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.downward234.info/.../1432278539/1432278539?26226600609ZV9yLzA5cD0sOCwkXjswLyw3MiBsNDAuMjEtIG49KyZncGlic11ubmFnZTRCaXVsZmlhZCVNWGxbZWNsIFM9MjcwMis1My8xOWEuNC03XDY3Ky0zOF9kXGNeYDVeMTcmX3hcc2xqO2JudHAfM1gjLGQjLGBjZGguWWBdYmwrKGNvZyUpZD5wZ3BfckZjbltjbF1RX251cChlb2MgYndoW21pXW5Ya187QmxjdmVsRmBsXmNwIGBpbF9uWGtfO3FfbnVwIGNjZ11pZ143YzUqNik1XTBiLis5NFxiWjcqZDMyLGYxXjRcMSwuNiwgaWNpbjQvIHhnajcw

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