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Honlyn (Macao Commercial Offshore) Limited

The application installer.exe by Honlyn (Macao Commercial Offshore) Limited has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 4 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) installer. This version of the installer will bundle the Ask.com Toolbar, a potentially unwanted web browser extension. The file has been seen being downloaded from www.freepdfreading.com and multiple other hosts.
Publisher:
Honlyn (Macao Commercial Offshore) Limited  (signed and verified)

MD5:
bb02224bc6e1690a1e7ae185dc5ae542

SHA-1:
25ab196cc621fef768f35e2eef9d0a1ebe9caa48

SHA-256:
4473069c7d9a6d6dd2b78ab5bb8662fc3dcf0ea1bf0a965bcba209fc80fdee77

Scanner detections:
4 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Explanation:
Bundles that Ask.com toolbar as a third-party offer, a web browser extension that may modify a user's search and home pages.

Analysis date:
12/27/2024 12:38:54 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Baidu Antivirus
Adware.Win32.AskToolbar
4.0.3.15821

ESET NOD32
Win32/Bundled.Toolbar.Ask.G potentially unsafe (variant)
9.12109

K7 AntiVirus
Unwanted-Program
13.2016914

Reason Heuristics
Win32.Generic.HonlynMacaoCommercialOffshore.Installer.Meta
15.8.21.18

File size:
2.5 MB (2,588,176 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Honlyn (Macao Commercial Offshore) Limited

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
8/22/2012 8:00:00 AM

Valid to:
8/22/2015 7:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=Honlyn (Macao Commercial Offshore) Limited, OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O=Honlyn (Macao Commercial Offshore) Limited, L=Macau, S=Macau, C=MO

Issuer:
CN=VeriSign Class 3 Code Signing 2010 CA, OU=Terms of use at https://www.verisign.com/rpa (c)10, OU=VeriSign Trust Network, O="VeriSign, Inc.", C=US

Serial number:
1A2B9E67ACE7E5B318FED4F1ACAE76BB

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
12/6/2009 6:50:52 AM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
49152:K60nkaPfpCG16phXJQG008B7pdtlQayKF2EsL3EW/mbp:kn/PfpVophXJz00g7p6I2HPO1

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:
7.9927

Packer / compiler:
Nullsoft install system v2.x

Code size:
23.5 KB (24,064 bytes)

The file installer.exe has been seen being distributed by the following 2 URLs.

http://www.freepdfreading.com/Installer.exe

http://freepdfreading.com/Installer.exe

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