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setup.exe

1432277954

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:
1432277954

Version:
1.15522.80.0

MD5:
87681481015826198306dfc15f3c7662

SHA-1:
eb5490331a7de3d05b66d5cc35bc3ee60c2f0e2f

SHA-256:
7a0b5f7310d418161c88f998859b1c2f92f2a5f0b1800b6640c7fef1379a18b3

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:
5/17/2024 12:16:01 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Outbrowse (M)
16.12.30.21

File size:
695.9 KB (712,632 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

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/.../1432277957/1432277957?52603841198YmNuMTM3bDwxKishYjcyMi8sMCVjNSw0MzQjZjkwJVspOCMuMCIsLEJLQD1JUidEPyVFQyQrKCAyKiZgZGViamBcOC4rMi0rMzE3JygtMS01NC81NTArMCFnXW9rNS0leWBoOC4

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