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totalrecipesearchcrxsetup.exe

Mindspark Interactive Network

This is the installer stub for the Mindspark (TotalRecipeSearch/Ask) browser toolbar which provides the offer to the end user to install the toolbar and set the browser's search, home page and new tab to an Ask.com search destination. The application totalrecipesearchcrxsetup.exe by Mindspark Interactive Network has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 12 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the Mindspark Custom Setup installer. This version of the installer will bundle a Mindspark/MyWebSearch Toolbar, a potentially unwanted web browser extension.
Publisher:
TotalRecipeSearch  (signed by Mindspark Interactive Network)

Product:
TotalRecipeSearch

Version:
1, 0, 0, 12

MD5:
0264bd8742a8687742ee0deb4b90c737

SHA-1:
2b0d95991a6dcd768c84b27f0f59595c4f469297

SHA-256:
9da9269bf1b6637949939592134d3ded5a3a9f807228a1b179ae859d570cf342

Scanner detections:
12 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Explanation:
Bundles the Mindspark (MyWebSearch/Ask) toolbar, a web browser extension that will modify a user's search and home pages.

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:
4/26/2024 7:40:52 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

avast!
Win32:Mindspark-A [PUP]
2014.9-140728

AVG
Zango
2015.0.3400

Baidu Antivirus
WebToolbar.Win32.MyWebSearch
4.0.3.14728

Clam AntiVirus
Adware.MyWebSearch-15
0.98/18155

ESET NOD32
Win32/Toolbar.MyWebSearch (variant)
8.8789

Fortinet FortiGate
Adware/FunWeb
7/28/2014

F-Prot
W32/Mywebsearch.H2.gen
v6.4.7.1.166

Kaspersky
not-a-virus:WebToolbar.Win32.MyWebSearch
14.0.0.3493

Panda Antivirus
Adware/WebSearch
14.07.28.10

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Installer.MindsparkInteractiveNetwork.Z
14.8.8.2

Trend Micro House Call
TROJ_GEN.RCBH1A8
7.2.209

VIPRE Antivirus
MyWebSearch.J
20586

File size:
642.5 KB (657,952 bytes)

Product version:
1, 0, 0, 12

Copyright:
Copyright © 2012

Original file name:
14Setup.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
Mindspark Custom Setup

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\totalrecipesearchcrxsetup.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Mindspark Interactive Network

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
4/10/2012 1:00:00 AM

Valid to:
5/7/2015 12:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=Mindspark Interactive Network, OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O=Mindspark Interactive Network, L=White Plains, S=NewYork, 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:
098417F7EA6406EC7B320590E17A65B7

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
9/10/2012 3:40:56 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:HYoazKMjevu1ZOui/zrizib2AWhKWmBN1EH:H0OiOuGKzmWhwy

Entry address:
0x42BB

Entry point:
55, 8B, EC, 6A, FF, 68, 50, 82, 40, 00, 68, 8C, 68, 40, 00, 64, A1, 00, 00, 00, 00, 50, 64, 89, 25, 00, 00, 00, 00, 83, EC, 58, 53, 56, 57, 89, 65, E8, FF, 15, 74, 81, 40, 00, 33, D2, 8A, D4, 89, 15, 44, D4, 40, 00, 8B, C8, 81, E1, FF, 00, 00, 00, 89, 0D, 40, D4, 40, 00, C1, E1, 08, 03, CA, 89, 0D, 3C, D4, 40, 00, C1, E8, 10, A3, 38, D4, 40, 00, 33, F6, 56, E8, 58, 06, 00, 00, 59, 85, C0, 75, 08, 6A, 1C, E8, B0, 00, 00, 00, 59, 89, 75, FC, E8, B9, 22, 00, 00, FF, 15, 78, 81, 40, 00, A3, 3C, D9, 40, 00, E8...
 
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Entropy:
6.9910

Developed / compiled with:
Microsoft Visual C++ v6.0

Code size:
28 KB (28,672 bytes)

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

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to www187.mindspark.com  (74.113.233.187:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to anx.mindspark.com  (74.113.233.187:80)

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