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googleearthsetup.exe

Abcid Marketing Inc

The application googleearthsetup.exe by Abcid Marketing Inc has been detected as adware by 8 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:
1bd6f964fee5a97f890b6a1ba016edc2

SHA-1:
5bb392821b96db7f0f7eb2b65332c136bd699a8c

SHA-256:
477593914500d08b9d6395a210d56314721473df383b272f3807479c441afb0b

Scanner detections:
8 / 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 6:28:57 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Avira AntiVirus
ADWARE/InstallCore.Gen9
7.11.194.188

Comodo Security
Application.Win32.InstallCore.YA
20340

Dr.Web
Trojan.MulDrop5.38104
9.0.1.0352

ESET NOD32
Win32/InstallCore.RA (variant)
8.10864

K7 AntiVirus
Trojan
13.186.14309

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Installer.AbcidMarketing.Q
14.12.18.11

Vba32 AntiVirus
Malware-Cryptor.InstallCore.gen
3.12.26.3

VIPRE Antivirus
Trojan.Win32.Generic
35646

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}\appdata\local\microsoft\windows\inetcache\content.ie5\ywfb8658\googleearthsetup.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Abcid Marketing Inc

Authority:
GlobalSign nv-sa

Valid from:
9/18/2014 11:16:04 AM

Valid to:
9/19/2015 11:16:04 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 6:22:17 PM

OS version:
1.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.25

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:kaJvpyvEXfsYYzb/KGdm1JpGKXq6NW/ntMIyHc+NEtT80KuJYcVb2KU:k0veeEZNm1bGK6IW/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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