flash player.exe

START now

This is the OutBrowse Revenyou installer which bundles offers for additional third party applications that may be unwanted and installed without consent. The application flash player.exe by START now has been detected as adware by 24 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the OutBrowse Revenyou installer. According to AVG, this software downloads additional adware offers during setup. The file has been seen being downloaded from get1.down1004life.info and multiple other hosts.
Publisher:
START now  (signed and verified)

MD5:
eb29032ff390accdf4508237db2d09c2

SHA-1:
371c64915e4ca12a7732b30d98cb77b989c2ef5f

SHA-256:
c21e119bd3cce11ede5bedf2b60f94f9ccc19714f4410bc2ed37e9359018d8a3

Scanner detections:
24 / 68

Status:
Adware

Explanation:
Bundles additional adware offers during download and installation using the OutBrowse installer.

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:
11/23/2024 2:27:30 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
MemScan:Application.Bundler.JU
6522021

Agnitum Outpost
PUA.Downloader
7.1.1

Avira AntiVirus
TR/Trash.Gen
7.11.30.172

AVG
Downloader
2016.0.3209

Bitdefender
MemScan:Application.Bundler.JU
1.0.20.175

Bkav FE
W32.HfsAdware
1.3.0.6379

Dr.Web
Trojan.OutBrowse.68
9.0.1.05190

Emsisoft Anti-Malware
MemScan:Application.Bundler.JU
9.0.0.4799

ESET NOD32
Win32/OutBrowse.BS potentially unwanted application
7.0.302.0

Fortinet FortiGate
Riskware/OutBrowse
2/4/2015

F-Secure
Riskware.MemScan:Application.Bundler.JU
5.13.68

G Data
MemScan:Application.Bundler.JU
15.2.25

K7 AntiVirus
Unwanted-Program
13.193.14853

Kaspersky
not-a-virus:Downloader.NSIS.OutBrowse
15.0.0.543

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.OutBrowse.gen
v2015.02.04.12

McAfee
Adware-OutBrowse.e
5600.6865

MicroWorld eScan
MemScan:Application.Bundler.JU
16.0.0.105

NANO AntiVirus
Trojan.Win32.OutBrowse.dmxjlz
0.30.0.65070

Quick Heal
Downloader.NSIS.r5 (Not a Virus)
2.15.14.00

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Outbrowse
15.2.4.0

Sophos
OutBrowse Revenyou
4.98

Trend Micro House Call
Suspici.D88B743E
7.2.35

Vba32 AntiVirus
Downloader.OutBrowse
3.12.26.3

VIPRE Antivirus
Threat.4150696
36694

File size:
574.4 KB (588,152 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
OutBrowse Revenyou (using Nullsoft Install System)

Language:
Language Neutral

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:

Authority:
thawte, Inc.

Valid from:
1/10/2015 5:00:00 PM

Valid to:
12/11/2015 4:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=START now, O=START now, L=Dublin, S=Dublin, C=IE

Issuer:
CN=thawte SHA256 Code Signing CA, O="thawte, Inc.", C=US

Serial number:
13F235DA9F0A910A71AE486F7547520F

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
12/5/2009 3:50:52 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:8lx8r0Xnwwi2pyKEyAPis6/E6Cz1+0f7rH/TTpVP4N1n9af1Ejqvo:8lW6vOyZskENJ+A7rH/TTP4NHnT

Entry address:
0x30FA

Entry point:
81, EC, 80, 01, 00, 00, 53, 55, 56, 33, DB, 57, 89, 5C, 24, 18, C7, 44, 24, 10, 60, 91, 40, 00, 33, F6, C6, 44, 24, 14, 20, FF, 15, 30, 70, 40, 00, 68, 01, 80, 00, 00, FF, 15, B0, 70, 40, 00, 53, FF, 15, 7C, 72, 40, 00, 6A, 08, A3, 18, EC, 42, 00, E8, F1, 2B, 00, 00, A3, 64, EB, 42, 00, 53, 8D, 44, 24, 34, 68, 60, 01, 00, 00, 50, 53, 68, 98, 8F, 42, 00, FF, 15, 58, 71, 40, 00, 68, 54, 91, 40, 00, 68, 60, E3, 42, 00, E8, A4, 28, 00, 00, FF, 15, AC, 70, 40, 00, BF, 00, 40, 43, 00, 50, 57, E8, 92, 28, 00, 00...
 
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Entropy:
7.9676

Packer / compiler:
Nullsoft install system v2.x

Code size:
23.5 KB (24,064 bytes)

The file flash player.exe has been seen being distributed by the following 4 URLs.

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