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chrome_setup.exe

Premium Installer

This adware bundler is distributed through Adknowledge's advertising supported software managers. The application chrome_setup.exe by Premium Installer has been detected as adware by 25 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the Adknowledge Fusion 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. The file has been seen being downloaded from secure.oinstaller9.com.
Publisher:
Premium Installer  (signed and verified)

MD5:
d146841807d86c1fd31f6d7ae08c148d

SHA-1:
30cddf88c9bb9a12fbeafcd3f9cb5027ad43e0c5

SHA-256:
51e9ac72acd6445d8ee29b497e264f2abb1053a7c99d83b80794a00db44ce8f9

Scanner detections:
25 / 68

Status:
Adware

Explanation:
This setup/installer bundles various adware components.

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 1:26:52 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Agnitum Outpost
Trojan.Buzus
7.1.1

AhnLab V3 Security
Adware/Win32.IBryte
2014.08.17

Avira AntiVirus
Adware/iBryte.Z.1
7.11.167.132

avast!
Installer-K [PUP]
2014.9-140814

AVG
Adware Generic5
2015.0.3382

Comodo Security
Application.Win32.iBryte.M
19213

Dr.Web
Adware.Downware.1377, Adware.Downware.1479
9.0.1.0226

ESET NOD32
Win32/AdWare.iBryte.K.gen application
8.7.0.302.0

Fortinet FortiGate
Riskware/PremiumInstaller
8/15/2014

F-Prot
W32/Ibryte.D.gen
v6.4.6.5.141

herdProtect (fuzzy)
variant of setup.exe (Adware)
2014.11.1.0

IKARUS anti.virus
PUA.PremiumInstaller
t3scan.1.7.5.0

K7 AntiVirus
Trojan
13.183.13054

Kaspersky
not-a-virus:AdWare.Win32.iBryte
14.0.0.3405

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.IBryte.A
v2014.08.15.01

NANO AntiVirus
Trojan.Win32.Downware.cssqfh
0.28.2.61519

nProtect
Trojan-Clicker/W32.iBryte.1064088
14.08.14.01

Panda Antivirus
PUP/MultiToolbar.A
14.08.15.01

Qihoo 360 Security
Malware.QVM10.Gen
1.0.0.1015

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Installer.PremiumInstaller.M
14.8.14.23

Rising Antivirus
PE:Malware.iBryte!6.45
23.00.65.14813

Sophos
iBryte Optimum Installer
4.98

Vba32 AntiVirus
BScope.Malware-Cryptor.iBryte
3.12.26.3

VIPRE Antivirus
Threat.4150696
32210

Zillya! Antivirus
Adware.iBryte.Win32.526
2.0.0.1880

File size:
1 MB (1,064,088 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
Adknowledge Fusion

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Premium Installer

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
7/12/2013 8:00:00 PM

Valid to:
8/2/2014 7:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Premium Installer, OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O=Premium Installer, L=Wilmington, S=Delaware, 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:
35BB74B905C01CE61DA131BA49337F33

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
8/16/2013 3:05:47 PM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:nXBnuQyPmynSSl46s9bJ3SjLlT5O6r82d+nDdV2m99xgtrSUNzyNNQypNb:nXButeynSDxJCw/emNgtrSUNpAb

Entry address:
0x415C

Entry point:
E8, 7B, 2F, 00, 00, E9, 78, FE, FF, FF, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 83, EC, 20, 8B, 45, 08, 56, 57, 6A, 08, 59, BE, 54, C2, 41, 00, 8D, 7D, E0, F3, A5, 89, 45, F8, 8B, 45, 0C, 5F, 89, 45, FC, 5E, 85, C0, 74, 0C, F6, 00, 08, 74, 07, C7, 45, F4, 00, 40, 99, 01, 8D, 45, F4, 50, FF, 75, F0, FF, 75, E4, FF, 75, E0, FF, 15, 44, C0, 41, 00, C9, C2, 08, 00, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 51, 53, 8B, 45, 0C, 83, C0, 0C, 89, 45, FC, 64, 8B, 1D, 00, 00, 00, 00, 8B, 03, 64, A3, 00, 00, 00, 00, 8B, 45, 08, 8B, 5D, 0C, 8B, 6D, FC, 8B, 63...
 
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Entropy:
6.9215

Code size:
105 KB (107,520 bytes)

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

https://secure.oinstaller9.com/2724e5c0d5ddce8854ce4dba65f224c0/o/.../Chrome_Setup.exe

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