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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 best APP has been detected as adware by 7 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the OutBrowse Revenyou installer. The setup routine uses the RevenYou.Com Pay Per Install platform (OutBrowse) which bundles additional software offers inclduing toolbars, extensions, PC utilities as well as other PUPs.
Publisher:
best APP  (signed and verified)

MD5:
acfad418c7ca5521c340ae305b7f5ffe

SHA-1:
44af3ffc572446cb197592906a0eb41924651880

SHA-256:
246c76d31d03e7dfca6de46b3dd18df65fcdc2123e49fa631ecd1c97c93d9882

Scanner detections:
7 / 68

Status:
Adware

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

Description:
This is an installer which may bundle legitimate applications with offers for additional 3rd-party applications that may be unwanted by the user. While the installer contains an 'opt-out' feature this is not set be defult and is usually overlooked.

Analysis date:
12/24/2024 5:16:29 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

AhnLab V3 Security
PUP/Win32.OutBrowse
2015.03.05

ESET NOD32
NSIS/TrojanDownloader.Adload.AL trojan
7.0.302.0

Fortinet FortiGate
W32/ADLOAD.AL!tr
3/4/2015

herdProtect (fuzzy)
variant of installation(2).exe (Adware)
2015.6.11.13

NANO AntiVirus
Trojan.Nsis.Downloader.doqmxk
0.30.0.296

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Bundler.Outbrowse
15.3.4.21

Vba32 AntiVirus
suspected of Trojan.Downloader.gen.h
3.12.26.3

File size:
90.7 KB (92,848 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:
best APP

Authority:
thawte, Inc.

Valid from:
2/16/2015 7:00:00 PM

Valid to:
12/17/2015 6:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=best APP, O=best APP, L=Dublin, S=Dublin, C=IE

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

Serial number:
45A289D39620F48EE6F60DAE98BDEFAD

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

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
1536:xpgpHzb9dZVX9fHMvG0D3XJdPYXnj3WCW2EW58A4Romu/TCZ+/kqIzjbanyUXZfs:rgXdZt9P6D3XJunj3WCW2EW5x45vZ25W

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:
7.1048

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 URL.

http://secure.9-pn-installer.com/o/.../flvplayersetup.exe

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