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chrome_setup.exe

Application web

Download Jet

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, “Application web Setup ” by Download Jet 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 Internet   (signed by Download Jet)

Product:
Application web

Description:
Application web Setup

MD5:
d85d86e2c72a4a43717ead6e2aa2691e

SHA-1:
5fc286d0d4397b2d4a2979c097698bde76cc6832

SHA-256:
881e369f832d958538b9918a6c827003b2af56e7674afa9c03947ea364e123a6

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 8:05:30 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.installCore (M)
16.8.6.19

File size:
764 KB (782,328 bytes)

Product version:
3.1

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:
Download Jet

Authority:
COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:
1/14/2015 6:00:00 PM

Valid to:
1/14/2017 5:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Download Jet, O=Download Jet, STREET="500 Westover Drive #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:
71A3B4CEFFECF361AB11477318001135

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
6/19/1992 5:22:17 PM

OS version:
1.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.25

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:oKqGkg2inLWGVcFuDkUM+hc7Eq8l39FcJ8bkcX4+MMBdt3vv3it4NwT:oKqxg2inLWa4uu+hc70l3HkcX4+rDyic

Entry address:
0xA5F8

Entry point:
55, 8B, EC, 83, C4, C4, 53, 56, 57, 33, C0, 89, 45, F0, 89, 45, DC, E8, CE, 8A, FF, FF, E8, D5, 9C, FF, FF, E8, 64, 9F, FF, FF, E8, 07, A0, FF, FF, E8, A6, BF, FF, FF, E8, 11, E9, FF, FF, E8, 78, EA, FF, FF, 33, C0, 55, 68, C9, AC, 40, 00, 64, FF, 30, 64, 89, 20, 33, D2, 55, 68, 92, AC, 40, 00, 64, FF, 32, 64, 89, 22, A1, 14, C0, 40, 00, E8, 26, F5, FF, FF, E8, 11, F1, FF, FF, 80, 3D, 34, B2, 40, 00, 00, 74, 0C, E8, 23, F6, FF, FF, 33, C0, E8, C4, 97, FF, FF, 8D, 55, F0, 33, C0, E8, B6, C5, FF, FF, 8B, 55...
 
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Entropy:
7.8827

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

Code size:
39.5 KB (40,448 bytes)

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

http://cdn.downloadzonefiles.org/c?x=xfiGF3S2pwYwc3DfWpuiRHeW92xjdi4U2U4ZpgTGRJQ=&c=urj0EATGkG7dqc18FGb9bZGCLafmlulj4bceMXJ29QUHGMjtMHExQE4kKOjXxSF0n1 BTqcjB7rIm4yIwqQENg==&downloadAs=Chrome_Setup.exe&fallback_url=http://.../mc6a8ma

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