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chrome_setup.exe

Secure Installer

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 by Secure Installer has been detected as a potentially unwanted program 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:
Secure Installer  (signed and verified)

MD5:
33c6adf7e94363dc7de12c06018e0515

SHA-1:
ddf2efcf7346261e94cc6369bea44d8fb0147cdb

SHA-256:
ee0a7bdc6e08fcb36c951947ec7277a566d9652ed28e6771c499899659f95b83

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.

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:
12/26/2024 12:57:35 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.installCore.SecureIn.Installer (M)
16.7.4.16

File size:
1.2 MB (1,226,888 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
installCore (using Inno Setup)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\microsoft\windows\temporary internet files\content.ie5\{random}\chrome_setup.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Secure Installer

Authority:
COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:
9/24/2012 9:00:00 PM

Valid to:
9/25/2013 8:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Secure Installer, O=Secure Installer, STREET=720 Market Street, STREET=5th floor, L=San Francisco, S=CA, PostalCode=94102, C=US

Issuer:
CN=COMODO Code Signing CA 2, O=COMODO CA Limited, L=Salford, S=Greater Manchester, C=GB

Serial number:
00C3507C1ADDE6B4C52E5426990F85CA2B

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
6/19/1992 7:22:17 PM

OS version:
1.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.25

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:mJfsDqNYDaPaDFo7WwFINVvgFe37rzIOrhNyoMuaFXgadEu/enWVSIh:mJfsD+2vj7rsOrhNzoQadEuSW

Entry address:
0x98CC

Entry point:
55, 8B, EC, 83, C4, CC, 53, 56, 57, 33, C0, 89, 45, F0, 89, 45, DC, E8, FA, 97, FF, FF, E8, 01, AA, FF, FF, E8, 2C, CC, FF, FF, E8, 73, CC, FF, FF, E8, 0A, F3, FF, FF, E8, 71, F4, FF, FF, 33, C0, 55, 68, 76, 9F, 40, 00, 64, FF, 30, 64, 89, 20, 33, D2, 55, 68, 2C, 9F, 40, 00, 64, FF, 32, 64, 89, 22, A1, 14, B0, 40, 00, E8, 9B, FE, FF, FF, E8, 26, FA, FF, FF, 8D, 55, F0, 33, C0, E8, E0, D0, FF, FF, 8B, 55, F0, B8, D8, BD, 40, 00, E8, AB, 98, FF, FF, 6A, 02, 6A, 00, 6A, 01, 8B, 0D, D8, BD, 40, 00, B2, 01, B8...
 
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Packer / compiler:
Inno Setup v5.x - Installer Maker

Code size:
36 KB (36,864 bytes)

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

http://downloader.browsersinfo.com/download.php?id=ec3bf2e3d9ba94ee24265d7048487ce2cabbde44&z=0&p=eyJweSI6ImJpIiwicnMiOiJnb29nbGUiLCJydCI6InNlYXJjaCIsImMiOiJlcyIsIm8iOiJ3aW43IiwiYiI6ImllMTAiLCJ1X2lkIjoiYmlfNTE2NDczZGU2YjhmMjMuODE2ODE0ODciLCJwYV9pZCI6IjAiLCJzdF9pZCI6IjAiLCJzcF9pZCI6IjAwMDAtMDAwMCIsInRzIjoxMzY1NTM3NzU4LCJrdyI6ImNocm9tZSIsImN1IjoiY2hyb21lIn0=

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