winrar_he.exe

Webcellence Ltd.

The installer utilizes the installCore download manager which may bundle additional offers for various ad-supported toolbars, extensions and utilities. The application winrar_he.exe by Webcellence has been detected as adware by 15 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the installCore installer. The setup program uses the InstallCore engine which may bundle additional software offers including toolbars and browser extensions. With this installer, users are expecting to download WinRAR archiver but before that occurs they may be presented with additional offers, mostly potentially unwanted software or adware.
Publisher:
Webcellence Ltd.  (signed and verified)

MD5:
0ff522b08881725692a06bdad7945b7c

SHA-1:
e2d955d8ee7ccb8c3031a8672e50b488ac85fb28

SHA-256:
2700af0e1b5e7c5bcfc58e9c5f522da78dcc920f859ba3be681fb53862edc45b

Scanner detections:
15 / 68

Status:
Adware

Explanation:
Uses the InstallCore download manager to install additional potentially unwanted software which may include extensions such as DealPly and various toolbars.

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:
4/25/2024 3:58:48 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Agnitum Outpost
PUA.InstallCore
7.1.1

Avira AntiVirus
7.11.132.64

AVG
InstallCore.O
2016.0.3228

Dr.Web
Trojan.Packed.24524
9.0.1.016

ESET NOD32
Win32/InstallCore.FJ (variant)
9.9436

F-Prot
W32/InstallCore.R.gen
v6.4.7.1.166

Malwarebytes
v2015.01.16.07

McAfee
Artemis!0FF522B08881
5600.6884

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Webcellence.J
15.1.16.7

Rising Antivirus
PE:Malware.XPACK-LNR/Heur!1.5594
23.00.65.15114

SUPERAntiSpyware
10112

Trend Micro House Call
TROJ_GEN.F47V0201
7.2.16

Vba32 AntiVirus
3.12.24.3

VIPRE Antivirus
Trojan.Win32.Generic
26584

File size:
665.5 KB (681,456 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
installCore (using Inno Setup)

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

Digital Signature
Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
3/5/2013 2:00:00 AM

Valid to:
5/5/2014 2:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=Webcellence Ltd., OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O=Webcellence Ltd., L=Moshav Ora, S=Israel, C=IL

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:
2742F1242826FB7F69B052B7F394DFED

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
6/20/1992 1:22:17 AM

OS version:
1.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.25

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:rfyMJfsGWgRKsZprsYnHLih4YxcIx03QgvCbvIJmRpkDiDzhD/jrUS0L/eo:rfyMJfslgRKsZ8ThBpDNcD0lboSAeo

Entry address:
0x98CC

Entry point:
55, 8B, EC, 83, C4, CC, 53, 56, 57, 33, C0, 89, 45, F0, 89, 45, DC, E8, FA, 97, FF, FF, E8, 01, AA, FF, FF, E8, 2C, CC, FF, FF, E8, 73, CC, FF, FF, E8, 0A, F3, FF, FF, E8, 71, F4, FF, FF, 33, C0, 55, 68, 76, 9F, 40, 00, 64, FF, 30, 64, 89, 20, 33, D2, 55, 68, 2C, 9F, 40, 00, 64, FF, 32, 64, 89, 22, A1, 14, B0, 40, 00, E8, 9B, FE, FF, FF, E8, 26, FA, FF, FF, 8D, 55, F0, 33, C0, E8, E0, D0, FF, FF, 8B, 55, F0, B8, D8, BD, 40, 00, E8, AB, 98, FF, FF, 6A, 02, 6A, 00, 6A, 01, 8B, 0D, D8, BD, 40, 00, B2, 01, B8...
 
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Entropy:
7.8275

Packer / compiler:
Inno Setup v5.x - Installer Maker

Code size:
36 KB (36,864 bytes)

The file winrar_he.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

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