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installation.exe

Setup

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 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. The program is a setup application that uses the OutBrowse Revenyou installer. The file has been seen being downloaded from get.0118e.info.
Publisher:
Start Now  (signed and verified)

Product:
Setup

Version:
1.9.3.0

MD5:
3fbe2a054d86af7eb2b11b325036e6c4

SHA-1:
760ab43816b29f4c8d99854ac35257683d3b3584

SHA-256:
b992cc4c130b3096fd98510f428dc97ebb5bda2f038ddc6ea9135e40122f0c23

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Adware

Note:
Our current pool of anti-malware engines have not currently detected this file, however based on our own detection heuristics we feel that this file is unwanted.

Description:
This is also known as bundleware, or downloadware, which is an downloader designed to simply deliver ad-supported offers in the setup routine of an otherwise legitimate software.

Analysis date:
12/28/2024 4:36:07 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Outbrowse.StartNow.Bundler (M)
16.3.17.20

File size:
1.1 MB (1,146,352 bytes)

Product version:
1.9.3.0

Copyright:
Setup

Original file name:
Ionic.Zip-2015Mar02-101430-8ebb5a7a-5f08-4ae2-bc05-ef2c8dacd1ab.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
OutBrowse Revenyou

Language:
Language Neutral

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Start Now

Authority:
GlobalSign nv-sa

Valid from:
1/4/2015 8:36:58 PM

Valid to:
10/11/2015 7:45:55 PM

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

Issuer:
CN=GlobalSign CodeSigning CA - SHA256 - G2, O=GlobalSign nv-sa, C=BE

Serial number:
11219995D34A9445F16950234428BC949BCF

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
3/2/2015 3:14:30 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows Console

Linker version:
8.0

.NET CLR dependent:
Yes

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:DbSaE4mvt/j7YeXfiLM/0dpvH3FEHDa6a6TCE:DbSv4mvN71XS/36jzam9

Entry address:
0x75F3E

Entry point:
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Entropy:
7.5746

Developed / compiled with:
Microsoft Visual C# / Basic .NET

Code size:
464 KB (475,136 bytes)

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

http://get.0118e.info/.../1425291261/1425291261?42275737673Y2NyKzppOiotKTQvJGI2LS01MDEfaTkxMSswH2s2Kh9hLTtMTkg7QksgXGllYWliXzZqQyspM1ZHQTFwH2ZcaWc6MSRhZThgYm0sLiN2Z242LQ

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