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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 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:
6fcdbd05bc5e2e1e044d77e68195d231

SHA-1:
e042925e13ea16e537cf415b93495fe2a73799f3

SHA-256:
1907f7c7ab9fa019237e9b808b0bd9e8b5bc3868e0806320b4b21be900778628

Scanner detections:
22 / 68

Status:
Adware

Explanation:
May bundle additional potentially unwanted software such as adware during setup.

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:
11/30/2024 9:07:30 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler.Outbrowse.1
5517384

Agnitum Outpost
PUA.OutBrowse
7.1.1

avast!
OutBrowse-IN [PUP]
150319-1

AVG
Potentially harmful program Downloader.CLV
2014.0.4311

Bitdefender
Application.Bundler.Outbrowse.BA
1.0.20.700

Bkav FE
W32.HfsAdware
1.3.0.6379

Comodo Security
Application.Win32.AltBrowse.HY
22181

Dr.Web
Trojan.OutBrowse.6
9.0.1.05190

Emsisoft Anti-Malware
Application.Bundler.Outbrowse.BA
10.0.0.5366

ESET NOD32
Win32/OutBrowse.BK potentially unwanted application
7.0.302.0

Fortinet FortiGate
Riskware/OutBrowse
5/20/2015

F-Secure
Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler
11.2015-20-05_4

G Data
Application.Bundler.Outbrowse.BA
15.5.25

K7 AntiVirus
Unwanted-Program
13.204.15963

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.BundleInstaller.A
v2015.05.20.02

McAfee
Program.Adware-OutBrowse.c
17.6.569.0

MicroWorld eScan
Application.Bundler.Outbrowse.BA
16.0.0.420

NANO AntiVirus
Trojan.Win32.OutBrowse.dmikik
0.30.24.1357

Quick Heal
Adware.NSIS.OutBrowse.A
5.15.14.00

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Outbrowse.Bundler
15.5.19.22

Sophos
PUA 'OutBrowse' (of type Adware)
5.14

VIPRE Antivirus
Threat.4150696
39486

File size:
558.1 KB (571,464 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 10:30:53 AM

Valid to:
10/29/2015 10:30:53 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 4:50:52 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:jRZ/hV82+QHeCTZ3leOJBM9DwxyaQTscEfZ97zxdLMh9DJq0XWgNjIIU:jRZUl8nY9DSus3dxEpJlz+7

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:
7.9676

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=Ext-FL3&clickid=

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