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Start Now

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 Start Now has been detected as adware by 22 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the OutBrowse Revenyou installer. According to AVG, this software downloads additional adware offers during setup. The file has been seen being downloaded from get.blue9876.info.
Publisher:
Start Now  (signed and verified)

MD5:
79ee693a353e9e263b85027515519fe1

SHA-1:
701c3db01a4d7d9ca2092d8428049a31d48f9097

SHA-256:
2ae90144d10df036a6b0db8675956b41c2a8edd0bf1fcb505203432fb9259f68

Scanner detections:
22 / 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 4:49:04 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler.Outbrowse.1
6765824

Agnitum Outpost
PUA.OutBrowse
7.1.1

Avira AntiVirus
PUA/Outbrowse.Gen
7.11.213.12

avast!
OutBrowse-AX [PUP]
150101-1

AVG
Potentially harmful program Downloader.CLV
2014.0.4257

Bitdefender
Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler.Outbrowse.1
1.0.20.320

Comodo Security
Application.Win32.AltBrowse.HY
21256

Dr.Web
Trojan.OutBrowse.6
9.0.1.05190

Emsisoft Anti-Malware
Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler.Outbrowse
9.0.0.4799

ESET NOD32
Win32/OutBrowse.BK potentially unwanted
9.11274

Fortinet FortiGate
Riskware/OutBrowse
3/5/2015

F-Secure
Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler
11.2015-05-03_5

G Data
Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler.Outbrowse
15.3.25

K7 AntiVirus
Unwanted-Program
13.1915120

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.OutBrowse
v2015.03.05.01

McAfee
Program.Adware-OutBrowse.c
16.8.708.2

MicroWorld eScan
Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler.Outbrowse.1
16.0.0.192

NANO AntiVirus
Trojan.Win32.OutBrowse.dmikik
0.30.0.296

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Bundler.Outbrowse
15.3.5.13

Sophos
PUA 'OutBrowse' (of type Adware)
5.11

Trend Micro House Call
Suspici.28F3E04A
7.2.64

VIPRE Antivirus
Threat.4150696
38050

File size:
567.1 KB (580,680 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:
Start Now

Authority:
Starfield Technologies, Inc.

Valid from:
10/29/2014 9:30:53 AM

Valid to:
10/29/2015 9:30:53 AM

Subject:
CN=Start Now, O=Start Now, L=DUBLIN, C=IE

Issuer:
CN=Starfield Secure Certificate Authority - G2, OU=http://certs.starfieldtech.com/repository/, O="Starfield Technologies, Inc.", L=Scottsdale, S=Arizona, C=US

Serial number:
043DD86B3DF8A0

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
12/5/2009 3:50:52 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:NnVM6NZtoxkNtauMYcRUEgasmwIBurs6rz5TNjIIE:NnVTBoxkNyYcqZasmwIBmF+d

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:
7.9683

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.

http://get.blue9876.info/.../get4?p=13013&d=24699&l=24043&n=0&d1=1&s=mbs-f40&clickid=ea44452a-3d8e-410b-b355-de7e44c0e2fa

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