Bubble Ads.exe

Bubble Ads

NOSIBAY

The application Bubble Ads.exe by NOSIBAY has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. It is set to automatically start when a user logs into Windows via the current user run registry key under the display name ‘Bubble Ads’. While running, it connects to the Internet address server-54-230-187-106.cdg51.r.cloudfront.net on port 80 using the HTTP protocol.
Publisher:
NOSIBAY  (signed and verified)

Product:
Bubble Ads

Version:
3.1.111

MD5:
88b2ca8ddc1d71acfece81e8a92e4bb2

SHA-1:
768e2b1fb67438c403e44302c135925804087741

SHA-256:
cab5a0e8a06e98bfd97ae204940a884b92c088fb32a583414b26c0cca87f7891

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

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:
12/23/2024 5:17:07 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP (M)
16.7.28.22

File size:
4 MB (4,155,120 bytes)

Product version:
3.1.111

Copyright:
(c) Copyright, All reproduction and distribution rights reserved to Nosibay

Original file name:
Bubble Ads.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
French (France)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\roaming\nosibay\bubble ads\bubble ads.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:

Authority:
thawte, Inc.

Valid from:
10/26/2015 12:00:00 AM

Valid to:
1/24/2017 11:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=NOSIBAY, OU=Secure Application Development, O=NOSIBAY, L=PEROLS, S=Hérault, C=FR

Issuer:
CN=thawte SHA256 Code Signing CA, O="thawte, Inc.", C=US

Serial number:
5F167BED0657C4880A327813C55256A5

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
6/17/2016 4:12:18 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
12.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
98304:NT2zbw5ipmu4xxXBy0jUf8Oy+4rwQAJm4R/MAvx52rA:NTB5ipSXPxzAvx52rA

Entry address:
0x21EEAB

Entry point:
E8, 31, 35, 01, 00, E9, 00, 00, 00, 00, 6A, 14, 68, 48, 8F, 7A, 00, E8, 4F, 65, 00, 00, E8, 3F, 14, 01, 00, 0F, B7, F0, 6A, 02, E8, C4, 34, 01, 00, 59, B8, 4D, 5A, 00, 00, 66, 39, 05, 00, 00, 40, 00, 74, 04, 33, DB, EB, 33, A1, 3C, 00, 40, 00, 81, B8, 00, 00, 40, 00, 50, 45, 00, 00, 75, EB, B9, 0B, 01, 00, 00, 66, 39, 88, 18, 00, 40, 00, 75, DD, 33, DB, 83, B8, 74, 00, 40, 00, 0E, 76, 09, 39, 98, E8, 00, 40, 00, 0F, 95, C3, 89, 5D, E4, E8, 56, FB, 00, 00, 85, C0, 75, 08, 6A, 1C, E8, DC, 00, 00, 00, 59, E8...
 
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Entropy:
6.7901

Code size:
2.7 MB (2,842,112 bytes)

Startup File (User Run)
Registry location:
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

Name:
Bubble Ads

Command:
"C:\users\{user}\appdata\roaming\nosibay\bubble ads\bubble ads.exe" \winstartup


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

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to server-54-230-187-106.cdg51.r.cloudfront.net  (54.230.187.106:80)

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