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fastbrowserupdater.exe

Georgi Georgiev

The is the installer for the WebPick InstalleRex download manager which bundles applications with offers for additional 3rd party software, mostly unwanted adware, and may be installed without consent. The application fastbrowserupdater.exe by Georgi Georgiev has been detected as adware by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. It runs as a scheduled task under the Windows Task Scheduler named FastbrUpdateTaskMachineCore triggered daily at a specified time.
Publisher:
Georgi Georgiev  (signed and verified)

MD5:
26ff3e30cc62e615ebe86d870db2ffe7

SHA-1:
a2f0bfabfb33269935ca789b80ba93c7d799e33f

SHA-256:
a60f783c1e957f41b4ed493b0824849175f110ca6e6f6c0cb4fc4b610daf516d

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:
12/28/2024 11:15:40 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.WebPick.GeorgiGeorgiev (M)
16.3.1.8

File size:
83.9 KB (85,960 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\roaming\fupd\fastbrowserupdater.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Georgi Georgiev

Authority:
COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:
6/6/2014 3:00:00 AM

Valid to:
6/6/2016 1:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=Georgi Georgiev, O=Georgi Georgiev, STREET="4 Petar Stoinov Str., Chelopechene", L=Sofia, S=Sofia, PostalCode=1617, C=BG

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

Serial number:
50E7161B35AEFC4CA801C951BEF0279A

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
7/1/2014 11:16:00 AM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
10.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
1536:dT40KLWjp9v4Bz/Cy2qd0BH5NYns+SBgStqqAhlp:dULWKuvNeygStqq6

Entry address:
0x45BB

Entry point:
E8, D7, 36, 00, 00, E9, 89, FE, FF, FF, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, 8B, 54, 24, 0C, 8B, 4C, 24, 04, 85, D2, 74, 69, 33, C0, 8A, 44, 24, 08, 84, C0, 75, 16, 81, FA, 80, 00, 00, 00, 72, 0E, 83, 3D, 28, 4F, 41, 00, 00, 74, 05, E9, 36, 37, 00, 00, 57, 8B, F9, 83, FA, 04, 72, 31, F7, D9, 83, E1, 03, 74, 0C, 2B, D1, 88, 07, 83, C7, 01, 83, E9, 01, 75, F6, 8B, C8, C1, E0, 08, 03, C1, 8B, C8, C1, E0, 10, 03, C1, 8B, CA, 83, E2, 03, C1, E9, 02, 74, 06, F3, AB, 85, D2, 74, 0A, 88, 07, 83, C7, 01, 83...
 
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Entropy:
6.4358

Code size:
53 KB (54,272 bytes)

Scheduled Task
Task name:
FastbrUpdateTaskMachineCore

Trigger:
Daily (Runs daily at 11:36 AM)


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