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googleearthsetup.exe

Abcid Marketing Inc

The application googleearthsetup.exe by Abcid Marketing Inc has been detected as adware by 12 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the Inno Setup installer. The setup program uses the InstallCore engine which may bundle additional software offers including toolbars and browser extensions. The file has been seen being downloaded from cdn.epiclabhosting.com.
Publisher:
Abcid Marketing Inc  (signed and verified)

MD5:
ac91f07d542e1ba91fc1a36cd0994018

SHA-1:
52f728a7ee4b1c67d6438bce6676ea29c14dfa1f

SHA-256:
d07f7b714dc5f4732303dfab2e2a29815cf84429509cffab307f32222bb331f5

Scanner detections:
12 / 68

Status:
Adware

Explanation:
Uses the InstallCore download manager to install additional potentially unwanted software which may include extensions such as DealPly and various toolbars.

Analysis date:
12/27/2024 7:08:52 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Avira AntiVirus
ADWARE/InstallCore.Gen9
7.11.188.58

Baidu Antivirus
Adware.Win32.InstallCore
4.0.3.1526

Dr.Web
Trojan.MulDrop5.38104
9.0.1.037

ESET NOD32
Win32/InstallCore.RA (variant)
9.10766

Fortinet FortiGate
Riskware/InstallCore
2/6/2015

K7 AntiVirus
Trojan
13.185.14098

McAfee
Artemis!AC91F07D542E
5600.6862

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Installer.AbcidMarketing
15.2.6.14

Sophos
Generic PUA FC
4.98

Trend Micro House Call
Suspicious_GEN.F47V1112
7.2.37

Vba32 AntiVirus
Malware-Cryptor.InstallCore.gen
3.12.26.3

VIPRE Antivirus
Trojan.Win32.Generic
35030

File size:
714.8 KB (731,984 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
Inno Setup

Language:
Language Neutral

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Abcid Marketing Inc

Authority:
GlobalSign nv-sa

Valid from:
9/18/2014 10:16:04 AM

Valid to:
9/19/2015 10:16:04 AM

Subject:
CN=Abcid Marketing Inc, O=Abcid Marketing Inc, L=Beaconsfield, S=Quebec, C=CA

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

Serial number:
1121F69CAA887562584EAAF849FB705C1EDC

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
6/19/1992 5:22:17 PM

OS version:
1.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.25

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:FaJvpyvEXfsYYzb/KGdm1JpGKXq6NW/ntMIyHc+NEtT80KuJYcVb2KU:F0veeEZNm1bGK6IW/t0Hco0KuFFdU

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...
 
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Entropy:
7.8184

Packer / compiler:
Inno Setup v5.x - Installer Maker

Code size:
37 KB (37,888 bytes)

The file googleearthsetup.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

http://cdn.epiclabhosting.com/?ic_user_id=9192

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