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neroessentials.exe

The application neroessentials.exe has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 8 anti-malware scanners. This is a setup program which is used to install the application. It uses the InstallCore engine which may bundle additional software offers including toolbars and browser extensions. The file has been seen being downloaded from dm.portalprogramas.com.
MD5:
67d90f5c0168c4b71655ff38a60d81ef

SHA-1:
c5e6f95d1f0c0ef383b92241fd8a79912570ecc2

SHA-256:
eec382da8263dc57ee7c45d84dbc2915a52f013fa750800882524879339895b0

Scanner detections:
8 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Explanation:
Uses the InstallCore download manager to install additional potentially unwanted software which may include extensions such as DealPly and various toolbars.

Analysis date:
12/27/2024 8:03:24 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Gen:Variant.Application.InstallCore.7
5813571

Clam AntiVirus
W32.Adware.InstallCore
0.98/21294

Dr.Web
Adware.InstallCore.40
9.0.1.05190

Emsisoft Anti-Malware
Gen:Variant.Application.InstallCore
10.0.0.5366

ESET NOD32
Win32/InstallCore.Q potentially unwanted application
7.0.302.0

F-Secure
Variant.Application.InstallCore
5.15.21

Norman
Gen:Variant.Application.InstallCore.7
18.01.2016 17:20:53

Sophos
PUA 'Install Core Installer'
5.22

File size:
1.1 MB (1,128,056 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

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

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
6/20/1992 12:22:17 AM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.25

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:V1N8GnP548SN9EJqukGtTN0O8QxmDdeYDnTexXmssDVzXiKZ:V1N8GJ4ukGX0O/IVDnTexX6D9

Entry address:
0xC209F

Entry point:
55, 8B, EC, 83, C4, F0, B8, 25, E3, 42, 00, E8, CE, DC, FF, FF, A4, 47, CB, 46, E8, F6, 30, E1, 00, 80, 51, D7, CF, E2, 7D, F6, AA, 08, 70, 7D, 4E, D9, B0, 83, 4E, A2, 58, 9E, C9, AE, 3D, 65, 64, 78, AA, AB, E5, C9, 0A, 91, ED, 9D, 35, C0, A7, B8, 54, 7B, 73, 2C, 79, 4F, DC, 55, 61, 8D, 62, F2, 08, E2, DF, 78, FD, AF, AA, AD, A7, EF, 9E, 3D, D3, E0, B8, D1, 54, AF, FD, D2, 88, DA, BC, EA, 02, 14, 82, E3, AE, CD, 39, 86, 39, C4, 51, 86, 87, 25, EF, AB, 82, 2E, 7C, BF, 96, 5F, 12, EC, 9A, A2, A0, 9A, 00, F6...
 
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Developed / compiled with:
Microsoft Visual C++

Code size:
786.5 KB (805,376 bytes)

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

http://dm.portalprogramas.com/dm/.../Nero-Essentials

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