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installation.exe

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 27 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.down1702.info.
Publisher:
START now  (signed and verified)

MD5:
308c777575a1a25a7efea80e6e3dd3aa

SHA-1:
996e6fe9a9b81f79c080fe939a1ad621e4fd9282

SHA-256:
30fe9e75d1ed912be795b5ad71a894eb89e91471f53d8e5b25a6a841cd5cd7f3

Scanner detections:
27 / 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:
12/27/2024 8:27:41 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler.Outbrowse.1
6310020

Agnitum Outpost
PUA.OutBrowse
7.1.1

AhnLab V3 Security
PUP/Win32.OutBrowse
2015.03.30

Avira AntiVirus
APPL/Outbrowse.Gen
7.11.203.222

avast!
OutBrowse-AA [PUP]
150319-0

AVG
Potentially harmful program Downloader
2016.0.3155

Bitdefender
Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler.Outbrowse.1
1.0.20.445

Bkav FE
W32.HfsAdware
1.3.0.6379

Comodo Security
Application.Win32.AltBrowse.HY
21587

Dr.Web
Trojan.OutBrowse.68
9.0.1.089

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

ESET NOD32
Win32/OutBrowse.BS potentially unwanted application
9.7.0.302.0

Fortinet FortiGate
Riskware/OutBrowse
3/30/2015

F-Secure
Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler
11.2015-30-03_2

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

herdProtect (fuzzy)
variant of java.exe (Adware)
2015.7.4.4

K7 AntiVirus
Unwanted-Program
13.191.14711

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.OutBrowse
v2015.03.30.04

McAfee
Adware-OutBrowse.e
5600.6811

MicroWorld eScan
Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler.Outbrowse.1
16.0.0.267

NANO AntiVirus
Trojan.Win32.OutBrowse.dnberl
0.30.8.659

Quick Heal
Adware.NSIS.OutBrowse.A
3.15.14.00

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Bundler.Outbrowse
15.3.30.4

Sophos
OutBrowse Revenyou
4.98

Trend Micro House Call
Suspici.F4CBE3E4
7.2.89

Vba32 AntiVirus
Downloader.OutBrowse
3.12.26.3

VIPRE Antivirus
Threat.4823950
36666

File size:
573.7 KB (587,440 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:
thawte, Inc.

Valid from:
1/11/2015 1:00:00 AM

Valid to:
12/12/2015 12:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=START now, O=START now, L=Dublin, S=Dublin, C=IE

Issuer:
CN=thawte SHA256 Code Signing CA, O="thawte, Inc.", C=US

Serial number:
13F235DA9F0A910A71AE486F7547520F

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
12/5/2009 11:50:52 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:11UVNSArVS7XHqBxLPPx1pH0++BmKVmzpn1pyK04gEQqkWipHM:11QNDjxymKVs1iEtf

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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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.down1702.info/.../get15?p=13073&d=18563&l=3325&n=0&d1=NUMBER&clickid=LE10m6a8VG

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