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TBNotifier.exe

Ask TBNotifier

APN LLC

This is a component of the Ask.com toolbar, a browser extension that will modify the default web browser's search provider, home page and various other settings. The application TBNotifier.exe, “Ask Toolbar Notifier” by APN has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 10 anti-malware scanners. It is set to automatically execute when any user logs into Windows (through the local user run registry setting) with the name ‘ApnTBMon’. Additionally, the file is typically installed by a number of programs including Search App by Ask by APN, LLC and Virtual DJ Toolbar by APN, LLC, both potentially unwanted software. This version of the file will bundle the Ask.com Toolbar, a potentially unwanted web browser extension.

File name:

TBNotifier.exe

Publisher:

APN (signed by APN LLC)

Product:

Ask TBNotifier

Description:

Ask Toolbar Notifier

Version:

31.26.0.4623

MD5:

826e44bca51f86eb1151da98dd9b3f7a

SHA-1:

8f1950311da9bd69fe22da0851c6dba6ea3c192a

SHA-256:

3e7c89a326db4ebad9a7c41a9203ec23fbb39a8ff1f1e49442fc06845ab9a3d2

Scanner detections:

10 / 68

Status:

Potentially unwanted

Analysis date:

4/25/2024 2:28:46 PM UTC (today)

Scan engine

Detection

Engine version

AhnLab V3 Security

PUP/Win32.IECore

2013.11.27

Avira AntiVirus

TR/Trash.Gen

7.11.30.172

Baidu Antivirus

PUA.Win32.AskToolbar

4.0.3.15918

Bkav FE

W32.HfsAdware

1.3.0.6379

ESET NOD32

Win32/Bundled.Toolbar.Ask (variant)

9.9573

IKARUS anti.virus

Trojan.Trash

t3scan.1.9.2.0

Qihoo 360 Security

Malware.QVM20.Gen

1.0.0.1015

Reason Heuristics

PUP.Ask.APN.Toolbar (M)

15.9.18.21

Trend Micro House Call

TROJ_GEN.F47V0218

7.2.261

Vba32 AntiVirus

Malware-Cryptor.Hlux.2

3.12.26.3

File size:

1.6 MB (1,719,184 bytes)

Product version:

31.26.0.4623

Original file name:

TBNotifier.exe

File type:

Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Common path:

C:\Program Files\askpartnernetwork\toolbar\updater\tbnotifier.exe

Digital Signature

Signed by:

APN LLC

Authority:

VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:

2/26/2015 12:00:00 AM

Valid to:

5/27/2018 11:59:59 PM

Subject:

CN=APN LLC, O=APN LLC, L=Oakland, S=California, C=US

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:

74BAC30967391B08242D79F7F79449E2

File PE Metadata

Compilation timestamp:

9/9/2015 11:27:43 PM

OS version:

5.1

OS bitness:

Win32

Subsystem:

Windows GUI

Linker version:

12.0

CTPH (ssdeep):

49152:TYCG+1DJez+lRA5BXEEEEEEEEEEdlhJEJEEEEEEEEEEzY06:sCf1rR+ZT

Entry address:

0xF26CA

Entry point:

E8, 14, 01, 01, 00, E9, 7F, FE, FF, FF, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, 8B, 4C, 24, 04, F7, C1, 03, 00, 00, 00, 74, 24, 8A, 01, 83, C1, 01, 84, C0, 74, 4E, F7, C1, 03, 00, 00, 00, 75, EF, 05, 00, 00, 00, 00, 8D, A4, 24, 00, 00, 00, 00, 8D, A4, 24, 00, 00, 00, 00, 8B, 01, BA, FF, FE, FE, 7E, 03, D0, 83, F0, FF, 33, C2, 83, C1, 04, A9, 00, 01, 01, 81, 74, E8, 8B, 41, FC, 84, C0, 74, 32, 84, E4, 74, 24, A9, 00, 00, FF, 00, 74, 13, A9, 00, 00, 00, FF, 74, 02, EB, CD, 8D, 41, FF, 8B, 4C, 24, 04... 
[+]

Entropy:

6.4440

Code size:

1.1 MB (1,156,096 bytes)

Startup File (All Users Run)

Registry location:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

Name:

ApnTBMon

Command:

"C:\Program Files\askpartnernetwork\toolbar\updater\tbnotifier.exe"

The file TBNotifier.exe has been discovered within the following programs.

Ask Shopping Toolbar by APN LLC

This is an Ask.com ad-injection toolbar that is bundled with various 3rd-party programs and installers. From the site: "The enhanced shopping search experience includes rich content, a variety of product listings, and visual product search results.

help.ask.com/link/portal/30015/30018/Article/227/What-features-does-the-Shopping-Toolbar-by-Ask-offer

79% remove it

Ask Toolbar by APN LLC

The Ask Toolbar is a web browser extension and toolbar that delivers contextual based advertising as well as modify the user's web browser home and search pages to provide advertising and search.

apn.ask.com

74% remove it

AVG SafeGuard by Ask by APN, LLC

67% remove it

Media Search App by Ask by APN, LLC

69% remove it

ooVoo Search App powered by Ask by APN, LLC

ooVoo Search App is an advertising-supported web browser toolbar that may modify the browser's home page, search provider and new tab pages.

www.apn.ask.com/products/toolbars

88% remove it

Search App by Ask by APN, LLC

Publisher's description - “Quixey and Ask have entered into a deal in which apps from Quixey’s database, whether for mobile or the PC, will be integrated into search results. It’s going live today and should be rolling out now, although it’s not yet live for me.”

84% remove it

Shopping App by Ask by APN, LLC

Publisher's description - “The Shopping Toolbar by Ask has the single purpose of enhancing a user’s online shopping experience by offering an enhanced shopping search experience, links to popular shopping sites and/or additional content such as coupons, special offers and the latest deals from many merchants.”

79% remove it

Virtual DJ Toolbar by APN, LLC

Virtual DJ Toolbar is an Ask.com (Ask Partner Network) Toolbar that will provide limited web browser functionality but will modify the user's home and search pages and providers to an Ask.com managed partner search engine.

68% remove it

The executing file has been seen to make the following network communications in live environments.

TCP (HTTP):

Connects to a23-211-201-51.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com (23.211.201.51:80)

TCP (HTTP):

Connects to a104-89-4-221.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com (104.89.4.221:80)

TCP (HTTP):

Connects to 74.113.233.187.df.iaccap.com (74.113.233.187:80)

TCP (HTTP):

Connects to 199.36.102.106.df.iacapn.com (199.36.102.106:80)

TCP (HTTP):

Connects to a104-81-117-29.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com (104.81.117.29:80)

TCP (HTTP):

Connects to a104-86-2-246.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com (104.86.2.246:80)

TCP (HTTP):

Connects to a104-93-100-248.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com (104.93.100.248:80)

TCP (HTTP):

Connects to a104-108-57-208.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com (104.108.57.208:80)

TCP (HTTP):

Connects to a23-54-235-27.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com (23.54.235.27:80)

TCP (HTTP):

Connects to a104-80-91-146.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com (104.80.91.146:80)

TCP (HTTP):

Connects to a104-120-217-108.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com (104.120.217.108:80)

TCP (HTTP):

Connects to 74.113.237.189.lv.iaccap.com (74.113.237.189:80)

TCP (HTTP):

Connects to a23-76-74-237.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com (23.76.74.237:80)

TCP (HTTP):

Connects to a23-50-197-9.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com (23.50.197.9:80)

TCP (HTTP):

Connects to a23-4-43-27.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com (23.4.43.27:80)

TCP (HTTP):

Connects to a23-35-43-27.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com (23.35.43.27:80)

TCP (HTTP):

Connects to a23-15-155-27.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com (23.15.155.27:80)

TCP (HTTP):

Connects to a104-86-49-28.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com (104.86.49.28:80)

TCP (HTTP):

Connects to a23-74-237-212.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com (23.74.237.212:80)

TCP (HTTP):

Connects to a23-55-155-27.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com (23.55.155.27:80)

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