vistastartmenu.exe

Vista Start menu

Dennis Nazarenko

The is the installer for the WebPick InstalleRex download manager which bundles applications with offers for additional 3rd party software, mostly unwanted adware, and may be installed without consent. The application vistastartmenu.exe, “Vista Start Menu program” by Dennis Nazarenko has been detected as adware by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat.
Publisher:
OrdinarySoft  (signed by Dennis Nazarenko)

Product:
Vista Start menu

Description:
Vista Start Menu program

Version:
2.6.5.0

MD5:
8376ebf70e12f0832a92733a3b5bece7

SHA-1:
f16d913e9712e762c170966a1c52a3f380ab6106

SHA-256:
d5e17f4c62bc45ea5b658feca769e62a1b2bb70e4db631f490e64e56fcd80ad7

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Adware

Note:
Our current pool of anti-malware engines have not currently detected this file, however based on our own detection heuristics we feel that this file is unwanted.

Analysis date:
4/25/2024 4:32:59 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.WebPick.DennisNa (M)
16.6.12.13

File size:
1.6 MB (1,702,080 bytes)

Product version:
2.65

Copyright:
OrdinarySoft

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\Program Files\vista start menu\vistastartmenu.exe

Digital Signature
Authority:
The USERTRUST Network

Valid from:
11/2/2007 8:00:00 AM

Valid to:
11/2/2008 7:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=Dennis Nazarenko, O=Dennis Nazarenko, POBox=15A, STREET=Jovtneva 7A, L=Vishneve, S=Kievskaya, PostalCode=08132, C=UA

Issuer:
CN=UTN-USERFirst-Object, OU=http://www.usertrust.com, O=The USERTRUST Network, L=Salt Lake City, S=UT, C=US

Serial number:
00DBE65D78CE895A82ADCC70F584A6A0BB

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
6/20/1992 6:22:17 AM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.25

CTPH (ssdeep):
49152:8racXZBse9eUNsieAHQrcEQ4Dm7TrkxrcEQkQGw:8racJBd9e8FQrcEQ4C7IrcEQ+w

Entry address:
0x119A04

Entry point:
55, 8B, EC, 83, C4, E8, 33, C0, 89, 45, EC, 89, 45, E8, B8, B4, 94, 51, 00, E8, 20, D6, EE, FF, 33, C0, 55, 68, 1A, 9B, 51, 00, 64, FF, 30, 64, 89, 20, E8, 29, 99, F7, FF, A1, 20, D7, 51, 00, 8B, 00, 50, E8, AC, E3, EE, FF, 8B, 15, B0, D8, 51, 00, 89, 02, 8D, 55, E8, B8, 01, 00, 00, 00, E8, 9F, 93, EE, FF, 8B, 45, E8, 8D, 55, EC, E8, 88, 12, EF, FF, 8B, 55, EC, B8, 30, 9B, 51, 00, E8, 77, B5, EE, FF, 85, C0, 74, 34, 6A, 00, 6A, 00, A1, B0, D8, 51, 00, 8B, 00, 50, 68, FF, FF, 00, 00, E8, 35, E3, EE, FF, E8...
 
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Entropy:
6.8038

Developed / compiled with:
Microsoft Visual C++

Code size:
1.1 MB (1,149,952 bytes)

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