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OUTBROWSE

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 OUTBROWSE has been detected as adware by 14 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:
OUTBROWSE  (signed and verified)

MD5:
e2cfd77a0cf278e979f010cdad6ecea5

SHA-1:
223c3e075d96ecc445cba24b322ca89d52083426

SHA-256:
20cc415ccd4d98479a0121f8e8aea6a2a5ba8fc0ea21a589629495d6dfa28588

Scanner detections:
14 / 68

Status:
Adware

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

Description:
This is an installer which may bundle legitimate applications with offers for additional 3rd-party applications that may be unwanted by the user. While the installer contains an 'opt-out' feature this is not set be defult and is usually overlooked.

Analysis date:
12/26/2024 4:00:27 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Agnitum Outpost
PUA.OutBrowse
7.1.1

AVG
Generic
2015.0.3341

Dr.Web
Adware.Downware.2081
9.0.1.0267

ESET NOD32
Win32/OutBrowse.AT
8.10477

G Data
Win32.Application.Outbrowse
14.9.24

herdProtect (fuzzy)
variant of spybot_setup.exe (Adware)
2014.12.6.21

IKARUS anti.virus
PUA.OutBrowse
t3scan.1.7.8.0

K7 AntiVirus
Unwanted-Program
13.183.13504

Kaspersky
not-a-virus:AdWare.Win32.OutBrowse
14.0.0.3200

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.OutBrowse
v2014.09.24.09

McAfee
Adware-OutBrowse.a
5600.6997

Reason Heuristics
PUP.OUTBROWSE.M
14.9.24.20

Sophos
OutBrowse Revenyou
4.98

VIPRE Antivirus
Threat.4784459
32938

File size:
556.7 KB (570,016 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:
OUTBROWSE

Authority:
COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:
4/6/2014 8:00:00 PM

Valid to:
4/7/2015 7:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=OUTBROWSE, O=OUTBROWSE, STREET=Bialik Number: 143, L=Ramat Gan, S=Israel, PostalCode=5252337, C=IL

Issuer:
CN=COMODO Code Signing CA 2, O=COMODO CA Limited, L=Salford, S=Greater Manchester, C=GB

Serial number:
00A5F03C3A375C11FD6C1C160EE8BFF923

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

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:yzd9HqJxg+WJY8yB6iVKy6wMpslKgAXGF9TMNDj+m:yTyW+WJY+4KHwMpsBh9IN3

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:
7.9763

Packer / compiler:
Nullsoft install system v2.x

Code size:
23.5 KB (24,064 bytes)

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