audacity_rocketfuelinstaller.exe

Verti Technology Group, Inc.

This is the Verti bundle installer which bundles applications with offers for additional 3rd party software, mostly unwanted adware, and may be installed with minimal consent. The application audacity_rocketfuelinstaller.exe by Verti Technology Group has been detected as adware by 14 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the Verti Setup installer. The file has been seen being downloaded from inst.allfree-apps.net and multiple other hosts.
Publisher:
Verti Technology Group, Inc.  (signed and verified)

Version:
1.0.147.0

MD5:
50c9c9f8535f30ca601dc583205520b6

SHA-1:
299b689752ea63c6ed5f28b781ca74eca8934035

SHA-256:
b5f27556a4058d77382bc9a1c094dd6dd5c9f3edd6adffc747c4349e17d4223a

Scanner detections:
14 / 68

Status:
Adware

Description:
This is an installer which may bundle legitimate applications with offers for additional 3rd-party applications that may be unwanted by the user. While the installer contains an 'opt-out' feature this is not set be defult and is usually overlooked.

Analysis date:
11/5/2024 1:55:58 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Agnitum Outpost
Riskware.Agent
7.1.1

avast!
Win32:Adware-BGF [PUP]
2014.9-140130

AVG
MalSign.Generic
2015.0.3578

Dr.Web
Adware.Downware.2070
9.0.1.030

Emsisoft Anti-Malware
Adware.Win32.Verti
8.14.04.05.02

ESET NOD32
Win32/Verti (variant)
8.9427

Fortinet FortiGate
PossibleThreat.SB!tr.dldr
4/5/2014

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.RocketFuel.A
v2014.01.30.05

McAfee
Artemis!3B2DD686F757
5600.7234

Reason Heuristics
PUP.VertiTechnologyGroup.CC
14.3.6.20

Trend Micro House Call
ADW_VERTI
7.2.30

Trend Micro
ADW_VERTI
10.465.05

VIPRE Antivirus
Rocketfuel Installer
26476

File size:
465.5 KB (476,664 bytes)

Product version:
1.0.147.0

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
Verti Setup

Language:
English (United States)

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

Digital Signature
Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
11/14/2013 12:00:00 AM

Valid to:
12/14/2015 11:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN="Verti Technology Group, Inc.", OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O="Verti Technology Group, Inc.", L=Bellevue, S=Washington, 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:
2F53536EA4011E81FBFFD28C4B0BEB6F

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
1/10/2014 4:56:53 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
10.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:x8jvAlj/SGW2QGZLD4UxqeYqjA5p6mP71PzBoL/xsTkKFYwG36nuZq5F/IBT:Gvs7W2QyLDbxYqjA5p6mP71PzBoL/xsC

Entry address:
0x2832F

Entry point:
E8, AD, A8, 00, 00, E9, 89, FE, FF, FF, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 8B, 45, 08, 33, C9, 3B, 04, CD, 38, C1, 45, 00, 74, 13, 41, 83, F9, 2D, 72, F1, 8D, 48, ED, 83, F9, 11, 77, 0E, 6A, 0D, 58, 5D, C3, 8B, 04, CD, 3C, C1, 45, 00, 5D, C3, 05, 44, FF, FF, FF, 6A, 0E, 59, 3B, C8, 1B, C0, 23, C1, 83, C0, 08, 5D, C3, E8, E7, 10, 00, 00, 85, C0, 75, 06, B8, A0, C2, 45, 00, C3, 83, C0, 08, C3, E8, D4, 10, 00, 00, 85, C0, 75, 06, B8, A4, C2, 45, 00, C3, 83, C0, 0C, C3, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 56, E8, E2, FF, FF, FF, 8B, 4D, 08...
 
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Entropy:
6.4704

Code size:
254 KB (260,096 bytes)

The file audacity_rocketfuelinstaller.exe has been seen being distributed by the following 38 URLs.

http://inst.allfree-apps.net/dl/92/17668/1164/.../

Latest 30 of 38 download URLs

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