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Alluring Apps

This is the installer application for a 50onRed advertising supported software package (displays ads in the browser and may hijack the home and search pages of the web browser). The application discount dragon.exe by Alluring Apps 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 Nullsoft Install System installer. It is also typically executed from an Internet Explorer cache folder.
Publisher:
Alluring Apps  (signed and verified)

MD5:
593165d26562da1ba1aff5a424b8afbf

SHA-1:
aa093eded14e1b66d6dca586b5600cce332f4092

SHA-256:
033f815a3ed3ee9cac65bc0c24b963660283564d13f918600c7678bd8ec418b6

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:
11/5/2024 8:17:42 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.50OnRed (M)
17.2.7.15

File size:
1.1 MB (1,103,976 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
Nullsoft Install System

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Alluring Apps

Authority:
Thawte, Inc.

Valid from:
6/4/2013 1:00:00 AM

Valid to:
6/5/2014 12:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=Alluring Apps, O=Alluring Apps, L=Philadelphia, S=Pennsylvania, C=US

Issuer:
CN=Thawte Code Signing CA - G2, O="Thawte, Inc.", C=US

Serial number:
1BBF6CE60304F10362213959DCEC0021

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
2/19/2012 3:01:49 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.22

Entry address:
0x4327

Entry point:
55, 89, E5, 57, 56, 53, 81, EC, AC, 01, 00, 00, FF, 15, 74, 93, 42, 00, C7, 04, 24, 01, 80, 00, 00, FF, 15, 58, 94, 42, 00, 53, C7, 04, 24, 00, 00, 00, 00, FF, 15, 98, 94, 42, 00, 56, A3, 40, 7B, 42, 00, C7, 04, 24, 08, 00, 00, 00, E8, 8D, 3B, 00, 00, A3, 9C, 7B, 42, 00, 8D, 85, 84, FE, FF, FF, 57, C7, 44, 24, 10, 00, 00, 00, 00, C7, 44, 24, 0C, 60, 01, 00, 00, 89, 44, 24, 08, C7, 44, 24, 04, 00, 00, 00, 00, C7, 04, 24, 01, B3, 40, 00, FF, 15, AC, 94, 42, 00, 83, EC, 14, C7, 44, 24, 04, 02, B3, 40, 00, C7...
 
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Entropy:
7.9338  (probably packed)

Code size:
34.5 KB (35,328 bytes)

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