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google-earth.exe

Hakotu

PremiumBeam (New Media Holdings Ltd.)

The application google-earth.exe, “Hakotu Setup ” by PremiumBeam (New Media Holdings) 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 installCore installer. The file has been seen being downloaded from tmpfile3670.s3.amazonaws.com and multiple other hosts.

File name:

google-earth.exe

Publisher:

Gotebo (signed by PremiumBeam (New Media Holdings Ltd.))

Product:

Hakotu

Description:

Hakotu Setup

MD5:

4751b42156536afafb68ec54b789bbfd

SHA-1:

b93d3366e7e26cc4d0031da7cc4f40aacaa6adda

SHA-256:

85056badda16c63695a55070c3d733cfb83a14bed5c9078d5d0efd9064c89d6e

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.

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:

12/28/2024 8:54:50 AM UTC (today)

Scan engine

Detection

Engine version

Reason Heuristics

PUP.NewMedia.NMH.Bundler (M)

16.3.31.23

File size:

1 MB (1,057,328 bytes)

Product version:

5.4

File type:

Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:

installCore (using Inno Setup)

Language:

Language Neutral

Common path:

C:\users\{user}\downloads\google-earth.exe

Digital Signature

Signed by:

PremiumBeam (New Media Holdings Ltd.)

Authority:

GlobalSign nv-sa

Valid from:

12/17/2015 10:52:56 AM

Valid to:

4/22/2016 11:45:10 AM

Subject:

CN=PremiumBeam (New Media Holdings Ltd.), O=PremiumBeam (New Media Holdings Ltd.), L=Tel Aviv, C=IL

Issuer:

CN=GlobalSign CodeSigning CA - SHA256 - G2, O=GlobalSign nv-sa, C=BE

Serial number:

11218E8F84D2C9611A0D9227D7A1EEA68998

File PE Metadata

Compilation timestamp:

6/19/1992 6:22:17 PM

OS version:

1.0

OS bitness:

Win32

Subsystem:

Windows GUI

Linker version:

2.25

CTPH (ssdeep):

24576:7tR6LrXu0MMY9DC8sg67JPp8swtstbcz9iGDTETEe54B1YJ:7/IzwVJY7JxFDlyXCf4sJ

Entry address:

0x9C40

Entry point:

55, 8B, EC, 83, C4, C4, 53, 56, 57, 33, C0, 89, 45, F0, 89, 45, DC, E8, 86, 94, FF, FF, E8, 8D, A6, FF, FF, E8, 1C, A9, FF, FF, E8, 53, C9, FF, FF, E8, 9A, C9, FF, FF, E8, C9, F2, FF, FF, E8, 30, F4, FF, FF, 33, C0, 55, 68, FC, A2, 40, 00, 64, FF, 30, 64, 89, 20, 33, D2, 55, 68, C5, A2, 40, 00, 64, FF, 32, 64, 89, 22, A1, 14, C0, 40, 00, E8, 96, FE, FF, FF, E8, C9, FA, FF, FF, 8D, 55, F0, 33, C0, E8, 83, CF, FF, FF, 8B, 55, F0, B8, 24, CE, 40, 00, E8, 32, 95, FF, FF, 6A, 02, 6A, 00, 6A, 01, 8B, 0D, 24, CE... 
[+]

Entropy:

7.9090

Packer / compiler:

Inno Setup v5.x - Installer Maker

Code size:

37 KB (37,888 bytes)

The file google-earth.exe has been seen being distributed by the following 4 URLs.

https://tmpfile3670.s3.amazonaws.com/download77/ic_trackings/75158/.../google-earth.exe

https://tmpfile3647.s3.amazonaws.com/download77/ic_trackings/41542/.../google-earth.exe

https://tmpfile3639.s3.amazonaws.com/download77/ic_trackings/27961/.../google-earth.exe

https://tmpfile3685.s3.amazonaws.com/download77/ic_trackings/26538/.../google-earth.exe

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