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Softacular

The application uninstall.exe by Softacular has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 4 anti-malware scanners. This is a setup and installation application and has been known to bundle potentially unwanted software. This is the uninstaller utility registered in the Windows Control Panel for the program RocketTab by RocketTab. Additionally, the file is typically installed by a number of programs including Rockettab by Rich River Media, LLC and RocketTab: by Adknowledge, Inc., both potentially unwanted software.
Publisher:
Softacular  (signed and verified)

Version:
1.0.5409.17696

MD5:
336c2040d896b6bde0cb9134180360fb

SHA-1:
1adf608171ebb5e1e3050988954001a03f546a4f

SHA-256:
2bb0fd6084db33c6725746b2fbd465a9f85bfff81134c5925ecd10ce135fb29d

Scanner detections:
4 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Analysis date:
5/28/2024 6:16:30 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

AVG
Softacular
2015.0.3312

Qihoo 360 Security
HEUR/QVM03.0.Malware.Gen
1.0.0.1015

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Installer.Softacular
15.6.13.10

VIPRE Antivirus
AdKnowledge
34180

File size:
4.2 MB (4,403,936 bytes)

Product version:
1.0.5409.17696

Original file name:
Installer.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
Language Neutral

Common path:
C:\Program Files\search extensions\uninstall.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Softacular

Authority:
COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:
3/24/2014 1:00:00 AM

Valid to:
3/25/2015 12:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=Softacular, O=Softacular, STREET="4600 Madison Ave, 10th FL", L=Kansas City, S=Missouri, PostalCode=64112, C=US

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

Serial number:
753A79B32D5A96BF1872FDE1AC60DEEA

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
10/23/2014 12:50:05 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
8.0

.NET CLR dependent:
Yes

CTPH (ssdeep):
98304:f48NoLPJDPCMub73kcp+Qq5CiK53fsaHZ2pR1or:joJCd33NOEEku2r

Entry address:
0x429048

Entry point:
FF, 25, 00, 20, 40, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00...
 
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Developed / compiled with:
Microsoft Visual C# / Basic .NET

Code size:
4.2 MB (4,354,560 bytes)

Program Uninstaller
Program name:
RocketTab

Display publisher:
RocketTab

Uninstall string:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Search Extensions\uninstall.exe" /u=true /UserID=3abc6f01-6c83-48ef-984e-080827e238a6 /SourceID=browsersafeguard-rockettab-revenyou /ImplementationID=browsersafeguard-rockettab


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

“RocketTab”  by Adknowledge
RocketTab is a web browser extension that injects display advertising in the user's browser. Ads are displayed in the form of banners and contextual text-links and are both injected in white space areas of the HTML page or over existing ads of the underlying web site.
85% remove it
Rockettab  by Rich River Media, LLC
RocketTab is an adware program that injects advertising in the user's web browser by creating a local proxy server and routing all Internet traffic through that proxy. By re-routing traffic the service will be able to include various ads in the HTML of the displaying web page.
rockettab.com
88% remove it
RocketTab:  by Adknowledge, Inc.
RocketTab is an advertising supported browser extension also known as adware and is designed to deliver ads to the user's Internet browser as banners, context text-links and transitionals ads. The injected ads are not affiliated with the underlying website on which they appear.
www.adknowledge.com
87% remove it
 
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The file uninstall.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

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