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Web Bar Media

The application chrome.exe by Web Bar Media has been detected as adware 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 ‘WebDiscoverBrowser’.
Publisher:
The Chromium Authors  (signed by Web Bar Media)

Product:
Chromium

Version:
41.0.2272.74

MD5:
4d1f87d9807f2907ec034209c20a5ccd

SHA-1:
f2fbec096edd1e81886e8a7f00287e6e15417636

SHA-256:
ce6412a899713e00e1d973ef056151523807c4efea3a8ff124eeb5a8fd5bc940

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:
12/24/2024 1:49:45 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP (M)
16.9.6.18

File size:
948.3 KB (971,032 bytes)

Product version:
41.0.2272.74

Copyright:
Copyright 2014 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.

Original file name:
chrome.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\Program Files\webdiscoverbrowser\1.213.2\chrome.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Web Bar Media

Authority:
Symantec Corporation

Valid from:
2/5/2015 7:00:00 PM

Valid to:
2/6/2016 6:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Web Bar Media, O=Web Bar Media, L=Victoria, S=British Columbia, C=CA

Issuer:
CN=Symantec Class 3 SHA256 Code Signing CA, OU=Symantec Trust Network, O=Symantec Corporation, C=US

Serial number:
0F7B7C7A3031BA614438E5A48FF24DD7

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
10/23/2015 4:55:56 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
12.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:FY6mOWD0EWU14tHItGUkMP3uZLoBq3O+iJoTg9DypgksJII1QTDiH0HzQoX2MhLG:i6A0EN3J9DfhJI2KDHzQHWLnG

Entry address:
0x46158

Entry point:
E8, A7, CD, 00, 00, E9, 7F, FE, FF, FF, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, 8B, 44, 24, 08, 8B, 4C, 24, 10, 0B, C8, 8B, 4C, 24, 0C, 75, 09, 8B, 44, 24, 04, F7, E1, C2, 10, 00, 53, F7, E1, 8B, D8, 8B, 44, 24, 08, F7, 64, 24, 14, 03, D8, 8B, 44, 24, 08, F7, E1, 03, D3, 5B, C2, 10, 00, A1, 64, B7, 48, 00, 56, 6A, 14, 5E, 85, C0, 75, 07, B8, 00, 02, 00, 00, EB, 06, 3B, C6, 7D, 07, 8B, C6, A3, 64, B7, 48, 00, 6A, 04, 50, E8, E0, 4F, 00, 00, A3, 60, B7, 48, 00, 59, 59, 85, C0, 75, 1E, 6A, 04...
 
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Entropy:
5.4425

Code size:
392.5 KB (401,920 bytes)

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

Name:
WebDiscoverBrowser

Command:
C:\Program Files\webdiscoverbrowser\1.213.2\chrome.exe --docked


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