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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 11 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.downloaddesktop2.com and multiple other hosts.
Publisher:
OUTBROWSE  (signed and verified)

MD5:
1b756d4e4b7aee882d94440fd26c7d42

SHA-1:
eeb5843a17d92e4b7ae7748e908d90eaed4314c9

SHA-256:
4644ac7d08bdadb4fce12192f496f4fe4399c032af7ea9d0d6a93cbee5f59d9e

Scanner detections:
11 / 68

Status:
Adware

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

Description:
This 'download manager' is also considered bundleware, a utility designed to download software (possibly legitimate or opensource) and bundle it with a number of optional offers including ad-supported utilities, toolbars, shopping comparison tools and browser extensions.

Analysis date:
5/14/2024 10:26:18 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Avira AntiVirus
APPL/Downloader.Gen
7.11.159.104

AVG
Generic
2015.0.3419

Dr.Web
Adware.Downware.2081
9.0.1.05190

ESET NOD32
Win32/OutBrowse.Y potentially unwanted application
7.0.302.0

K7 AntiVirus
Unwanted-Program
13.180.12657

Kaspersky
not-a-virus:AdWare.Win32.OutBrowse
15.0.0.463

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.OutBrowse
v2014.07.08.06

McAfee
Adware-OutBrowse
5600.7075

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Installer.OUTBROWSE.F
14.8.7.20

Sophos
OutBrowse Revenyou
4.98

VIPRE Antivirus
Threat.4784459
31088

File size:
986.8 KB (1,010,448 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):
24576:pNxbPkv9pP3fDVPWlHQFZqCqQ4n1k/xrMm:fxbPkv3PfRPWlHQFZqK4wh

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:
7.9255

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 3 URLs.

http://get.downloaddesktop2.com/.../Get?p=3005&d=1775&l=1694&n=0&d1=10313&clickid=10592382abe1ef14448e4e1a3700ca85

http://sebcotrk.com/mt/.../

http://pop.pptw.org/pro/.../stats.php

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