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SoftBrain Technologies Ltd.

The application smartwebinstaller.exe, “SoftBrain Technologies Ltd. - Price Comparison” by SoftBrain Technologies has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 4 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) installer. The file has been seen being downloaded from inst.smart-web.me.
Publisher:
SoftBrain Technologies Ltd.  (signed and verified)

Product:
SmartWeb

Description:
SoftBrain Technologies Ltd. - Price Comparison

Version:
8.0.6.2

MD5:
5d7b76a82a511919dd1e21c0caff6b29

SHA-1:
afbefdd1df9af0ce01e18024befcae22e8eb24f0

SHA-256:
39c902d62e7c0847f608d71c7133931edfa9a283d464a3c6221539c73a4516ce

Scanner detections:
4 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Explanation:
Displays offers (for product and services) of certain deals related to the search terms or context of a webpage which are popups outside the normal browser content.

Analysis date:
4/19/2024 9:46:56 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Baidu Antivirus
PUA.Win32.PriceGong
4.0.3.1511

ESET NOD32
Win32/PriceGong.C potentially unwanted application
7.0.302.0

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.SmartWeb.A
v2015.01.01.08

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Installer.SoftBrainTechnologies
15.4.24.0

File size:
739.5 KB (757,224 bytes)

Product version:
8.0.6

Copyright:
SoftBrain Technologies Ltd.

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\microsoft\windows\inetcache\content.ie5\do02l54i\smartwebinstaller.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
SoftBrain Technologies Ltd.

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
2/24/2014 12:00:00 AM

Valid to:
2/24/2015 11:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=SoftBrain Technologies Ltd., OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O=SoftBrain Technologies Ltd., L=Or Yehuda, S=Israel, C=IL

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:
53F07650CBBFA5BC97F5276104D31164

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:tiK0j+mD3dix402BYGUCT7/Dnk22Rrs6wSsfkg5ChbTLE60j+m1PCdK2R:kK+DtCo77A2IrsH5ChbTLE6+18f

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:
7.9619

Packer / compiler:
Nullsoft install system v2.x

Code size:
23.5 KB (24,064 bytes)

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

http://inst.smart-web.me/inst/.../SmartWebInstaller.exe

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