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turbotax 2012 business.exe

Moshe Karaso

This is a WebPick installer that bundles (with very minimal user consent) a number of adware browser extensions which inject ads in the browser. The application turbotax 2012 business.exe, “Installer for SoftSafe” by Moshe Karaso has been detected as adware by 25 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the WebPick InstalleRex (Tarma) installer. The setup program uses Web-Pick's InstalleRex download manager and installer to bundle potentially unwanted ad-supported software which includes toolbars and browser extensions through a pay-per-install monetization scheme.

File name:

Publisher:

SoftSafe (signed by Moshe Karaso)

Product:

SoftSafe

Description:

Installer for SoftSafe

Version:

2013.2.20.1100

MD5:

d37499440c927fe1a116dbc016e8896f

SHA-1:

be5d3756568b7954208eeec7110cd00f74586d37

SHA-256:

2de6b5eea2f4d0b3b4264cc1364681e9a299185db0863929b08d8b346ca17643

Scanner detections:

25 / 68

Status:

Adware

Explanation:

Uses the InstalleRex from WebPick Internet Holdings to install bundled add-ons including toolbars and other web browser extensions.

Analysis date:

4/25/2024 1:36:57 PM UTC (today)

Scan engine

Detection

Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware

Adware.Generic.581660

1040

Agnitum Outpost

Trojan.XPACK

7.1.1

AhnLab V3 Security

Adware/Win32.StartPage

14.04.01

Avira AntiVirus

ADWARE/InstallRex.Gen

7.11.140.114

avast!

Win32:Downloader-TRK [Adw]

2014.9-140401

AVG

MalSign.Skodna.Bundle

2015.0.3518

Bitdefender

Adware.Generic.581660

1.0.20.455

Bkav FE

HW32.CDB

1.3.0.4959

Comodo Security

Application.Win32.InstalleRex.KG

18027

Dr.Web

Adware.Downware.980

9.0.1.091

Emsisoft Anti-Malware

Adware.Generic.581660

8.14.04.01.05

ESET NOD32

Win32/InstalleRex

8.9619

Fortinet FortiGate

Riskware/InstalleRex

4/1/2014

F-Secure

Adware.Generic.581660

11.2014-01-04_3

G Data

Adware.Generic.581660

14.4.24

Kaspersky

not-a-virus:HEUR:Downloader.Win32.AdLoad

14.0.0.4084

MicroWorld eScan

Adware.Generic.581660

15.0.0.273

NANO AntiVirus

Riskware.Win32.Downware.csjsgk

0.28.0.58720

Panda Antivirus

PUP/TSUploader

14.04.01.05

Qihoo 360 Security

Malware.QVM20.Gen

1.0.0.1015

Reason Heuristics

Adware.WebPick.Installer.W

14.8.7.17

Rising Antivirus

PE:PUF.InstallRex!1.9E4C

23.00.65.14330

Sophos

InstallRex

4.98

Vba32 AntiVirus

Downloader.AdLoad

3.12.24.3

VIPRE Antivirus

Installerex/WebPick

27914

File size:

280.2 KB (286,928 bytes)

Product version:

1.0

Original file name:

TSULoader.exe

File type:

Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:

WebPick InstalleRex (Tarma)

Language:

Language Neutral

Common path:

C:\users\{user}\downloads\turbotax 2012 business.exe

Digital Signature

Signed by:

Moshe Karaso

Authority:

COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:

11/14/2012 7:00:00 PM

Valid to:

11/15/2013 6:59:59 PM

Subject:

CN=Moshe Karaso, O=Moshe Karaso, STREET=Nahum 19, L=Ramat Gan, S=center, PostalCode=52233, C=IL

Issuer:

CN=COMODO Code Signing CA 2, O=COMODO CA Limited, L=Salford, S=Greater Manchester, C=GB

Serial number:

55036D3C9B5C690240A409061736347F

File PE Metadata

Compilation timestamp:

2/4/2013 4:49:08 PM

OS version:

4.0

OS bitness:

Win32

Subsystem:

Windows GUI

Linker version:

8.0

CTPH (ssdeep):

6144:2r+0I5RxWBDg7V0eXze6OvA48eEyUWvn9SS8LOJiLoAf1:2r+0I3sBDJejgPPjUW/9SS86Fi

Entry address:

0x14DB

Entry point:

55, 8B, EC, 81, EC, 2C, 06, 00, 00, 53, 56, 33, DB, 57, 66, 89, 9D, DC, FB, FF, FF, 89, 5D, F4, 89, 5D, FC, FF, 15, 74, 30, 40, 00, A3, 08, 44, 40, 00, FF, 15, 70, 30, 40, 00, 8B, F8, 8D, 45, EC, 50, FF, 15, 6C, 30, 40, 00, FF, 15, 68, 30, 40, 00, 8B, F0, F7, D6, 33, F7, FF, 15, 64, 30, 40, 00, 33, F0, 8B, 45, F0, 33, 45, EC, 68, 04, 01, 00, 00, 33, F0, 8D, 85, D4, F9, FF, FF, 50, 53, FF, 15, 60, 30, 40, 00, 85, C0, 75, 41, FF, 15, 5C, 30, 40, 00, 83, F8, 78, 75, 1A, 68, A8, 32, 40, 00, E8, 43, FB, FF, FF... 
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Entropy:

7.9557

Developed / compiled with:

Microsoft Visual C++

Code size:

7.5 KB (7,680 bytes)

The file turbotax 2012 business.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

http://softwarethebest.info/.../?product_name=TurboTax 2012 Business&installer_file_name=TurboTax 2012 Business&r=194

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

TCP (HTTP):

Connects to r1.stylezip.info (54.186.255.26:80)

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