installation.exe

Mari Mara

This is the OutBrowse Revenyou installer which bundles offers for additional third party applications that may be unwanted and installed without consent. The application installation.exe by Mari Mara has been detected as adware by 9 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:
Mari Mara  (signed and verified)

MD5:
983e63555c7b4be25e07452a4864de39

SHA-1:
11c4dbdab2a4cee70fb3d6a8587c02f52d2379f4

SHA-256:
805f987cbbee3fea967ce9a156cc6be0fb5c9cee4e552d9169383e447e3920c9

Scanner detections:
9 / 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:
11/27/2024 1:51:31 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

AhnLab V3 Security
PUP/Win32.OutBrowse
2014.11.20

AVG
Mari
2015.0.3284

Baidu Antivirus
PUA.Win32.OutBrowse
4.0.3.141121

Dr.Web
Trojan.OutBrowse.14
9.0.1.0325

ESET NOD32
Win32/OutBrowse.BJ (variant)
8.10748

K7 AntiVirus
Unwanted-Program
13.185.14071

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.OutBrowse
v2014.11.21.10

McAfee
Adware-OutBrowse.c
5600.6940

Sophos
Generic PUA BB
4.98

File size:
562.1 KB (575,584 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
OutBrowse Revenyou (using Nullsoft Install System)

Language:
Language Neutral

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:

Authority:
GlobalSign nv-sa

Valid from:
11/11/2014 3:10:16 AM

Valid to:
11/12/2015 3:10:16 AM

Subject:
CN=Mari Mara, O=Mari Mara, L=Dublin, C=IE

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

Serial number:
112167C220B9C5568C1F2BDF4D04BEE1E24C

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
12/5/2009 4:50:52 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:xQMeuT2aDPTKYlQne1PYfA3psEGZB2o/dZeAKj/yfJW//zaWxon:xQaKaD+YlQexY4cB2o/dEj8w//zaWY

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:
7.9768

Packer / compiler:
Nullsoft install system v2.x

Code size:
23.5 KB (24,064 bytes)

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

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