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chrome_setup.exe

Installer

Snappy Install

The installer utilizes the installCore download manager which may bundle additional offers for various ad-supported toolbars, extensions and utilities. The application chrome_setup.exe, “Installer Setup ” by Snappy Install has been detected as adware by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. The program is a setup application that uses the installCore installer. With this installer, users are expecting to download Google's Chrome web browser but before that occurs they may be presented with additional offers, mostly potentially unwanted software or adware.
Publisher:
Generic   (signed by Snappy Install)

Product:
Installer

Description:
Installer Setup

Version:
1.7.5.0

MD5:
3ddb8d4678e374a9050c587e19f0081e

SHA-1:
2785223c157d3baa2fbdc4165421b321aecdfd69

SHA-256:
41e36588481ab168a7c28bb185f054adb3ec91ea23f25b68beffdfea5a5636dd

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.

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:
12/25/2024 5:30:39 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.installCore (M)
17.2.15.7

File size:
791.5 KB (810,488 bytes)

Product version:
5.6.5

Copyright:
Internet Generic Prog

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
installCore (using Inno Setup)

Language:
Language Neutral

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\microsoft\windows\inetcache\ie\{random}\chrome_setup.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Snappy Install

Authority:
COMODO CA Limited

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

Valid to:
2/2/2017 6:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Snappy Install, O=Snappy Install, STREET="500 Westover Dr. #6502", L=Sanford, S=NC, PostalCode=27330, C=US

Issuer:
CN=COMODO RSA Code Signing CA, O=COMODO CA Limited, L=Salford, S=Greater Manchester, C=GB

Serial number:
00D14DB67948D83C74AD86CCAD8147516E

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
6/19/1992 6:22:17 PM

OS version:
1.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.25

Entry address:
0x9C40

Entry point:
55, 8B, EC, 83, C4, C4, 53, 56, 57, 33, C0, 89, 45, F0, 89, 45, DC, E8, 86, 94, FF, FF, E8, 8D, A6, FF, FF, E8, 1C, A9, FF, FF, E8, 53, C9, FF, FF, E8, 9A, C9, FF, FF, E8, C9, F2, FF, FF, E8, 30, F4, FF, FF, 33, C0, 55, 68, FC, A2, 40, 00, 64, FF, 30, 64, 89, 20, 33, D2, 55, 68, C5, A2, 40, 00, 64, FF, 32, 64, 89, 22, A1, 14, C0, 40, 00, E8, 96, FE, FF, FF, E8, C9, FA, FF, FF, 8D, 55, F0, 33, C0, E8, 83, CF, FF, FF, 8B, 55, F0, B8, 24, CE, 40, 00, E8, 32, 95, FF, FF, 6A, 02, 6A, 00, 6A, 01, 8B, 0D, 24, CE...
 
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Entropy:
7.8885

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

Code size:
37 KB (37,888 bytes)

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

http://cdn.downloadzonefiles.org/c?x=NLL6rzJO/1hZdL8LOCnS/y5 Aa2BPOchK1y3otxWbD0=&c=loRV /frv616KhbZQ88/tPco8ujHlxftb4OzmPljezQUNgmm5a rX/RiEOLcHiNlIFviOG4Q1/VN4tWFAESEcg==&downloadAs=Chrome_Setup.exe&fallback_url=http://.../mc6a8ma

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