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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 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:
e217e5b44694c181aa90e33952033ac5

SHA-1:
68b30cdc037a9101ad0c1163eb33480a18ebe8f8

SHA-256:
fa1192d5c1af7225a16dfaea0bf3f1118125ec41c57ead1708b4bc36869293e9

Scanner detections:
24 / 68

Status:
Adware

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

Description:
This 'download manager' is also considered bundleware, a utility designed to download software (possibly legitimate or opensource) and bundle it with a number of optional offers including ad-supported utilities, toolbars, shopping comparison tools and browser extensions.

Analysis date:
11/2/2024 1:38:40 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
MemScan:Application.Bundler.JU
6524963

Agnitum Outpost
PUA.Downloader
7.1.1

Avira AntiVirus
APPL/Downloader.Gen
7.11.206.214

AVG
Potentially harmful program Downloader.DEI
2014.0.4257

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
36666

File size:
574.4 KB (588,136 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:
START now

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:Ytx8r0Xnwwi2pyKEyAPis6/E6Cz1+0f7rH/TTpVP4N1n9af1EjqvN:YtW6vOyZskENJ+A7rH/TTP4NHn+

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.

http://get1.down1004life.info//.../get15?p=19141&d=25268&l=24431&n=1&productname=Flash Player&filename=Flash Player&clickid=wHUO01J2OQ14O0EHGFS21508

http://get.seepage1000.info/.../Get?p=19141&d=25268&l=24431&n=1&productname=Flash Player&filename=Flash Player&clickid=wHUO01J2OQ14O0EHGFS21508

http://yz0fi.voluumtrk.com/f1e777db-96bb-4f55-95e8-e2a4d07e2770?cid=wcy9HuaDj5Kb39EtCv7V3NfUnOIhpqa9U6ZIYB5H3jHRF4U2EFhgVCUEpW0Ce0dKSI55r8L6catqA5xqwdTld7x/k9cyTCrdVgnuR3CTUkwqWtOEuottAOL6VWQEkkGfEAUgBkDMyYxmu7SfS6lu1LEczfEQuW3rLD6bQAeseP 7jcUwCE6I0CYm2XicfO8nY25hEwWKFSrCRczl6jmY46U 3PMBfMjEmp dG1wEMyxOj4jy KnxOWroho7rvgUr8MinScl/DVlwW7KFlk6FaOIBe9NdMgjhu0002wsA1qzSQsrNcZ4lyd503qcCeEyUYFVPjSzuFSkvjjvQWIQNTd7GpTtFfJiw1b6LU6q2PlgRTVv C5Sh9ipcvrjDhm9P9WixEmBpbGvwBItPV3yVWBQHBibPdrAmcrgGtWp5XcuTVFK70n4RUOUsLAAoDHuCBa5vKn3IkuRPlSlObxaCBs8t7xPz3KjP SVuG0liIX0RYC/.../fa2WyVlOxID6SMFA8tED7svLNdMtkE15yF3s2ObV01k0IIb fu g264DlDEjXYQAucIDQh0MPQPjsIez5RqH854erTjhBckHB5QOmYKSs3Ux1EfI tF82XehZqb8DXOl0lAXkZ8XEs6L0pHbihqeHHSp3K2R2n29o5F9xOT6hJfPTP4uKl4r4 h

http://secure.pn-installer28.com/o/.../FlashPlayerPro_Setup.exe

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