pagealicious_rocketfuelinstaller.exe

Verti Technology Group, Inc.

This is the Verti bundle installer which bundles applications with offers for additional 3rd party software, mostly unwanted adware, and may be installed with minimal consent. The application pagealicious_rocketfuelinstaller.exe by Verti Technology Group has been detected as adware by 8 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the Verti Setup installer. The file has been seen being downloaded from inst.vertitechnologygroup.com.
Publisher:
Verti Technology Group, Inc.  (signed and verified)

Version:
1.0.141.0

MD5:
fa591373361a5e2e9f10ac9a2c652e7d

SHA-1:
f75df402e5e1282ed34ed47bd2fc8ae53b412472

SHA-256:
e56893b7c702c00a60474726635e1a369b6de82ee3ad564f0089b01b2cc67462

Scanner detections:
8 / 68

Status:
Adware

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:
12/25/2024 2:18:18 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

avast!
Win32:Adware-BGF [PUP]
2014.9-140428

Baidu Antivirus
Trojan.Win32.Verti
4.0.3.14428

ESET NOD32
Win32/Verti (variant)
8.9097

K7 AntiVirus
Trojan
13.174.10319

McAfee
Artemis!FA591373361A
5600.7146

Reason Heuristics
PUP.VertiTechnologyGroup.a
14.4.28.14

Trend Micro House Call
TROJ_GEN.F47V1117
7.2.118

VIPRE Antivirus
Rocketfuel Installer
23744

File size:
491.8 KB (503,576 bytes)

Product version:
1.0.141.0

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
Verti Setup

Language:
English (United States)

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

Digital Signature
Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
11/13/2013 4:00:00 PM

Valid to:
12/14/2015 3:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN="Verti Technology Group, Inc.", OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O="Verti Technology Group, Inc.", L=Bellevue, S=Washington, C=US

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:
2F53536EA4011E81FBFFD28C4B0BEB6F

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
11/14/2013 8:12:47 AM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
10.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:/YfM/NCRWq2lYxFg4umPQ/fp5gsGP71PzBoL/xsTkKFYWXO6nuZHsePi:1NeWZlYI4umPQ/fp5gsGP71PzBoL/xsb

Entry address:
0x2EB0F

Entry point:
E8, DD, 9F, 00, 00, E9, 89, FE, FF, FF, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 8B, 45, 08, 33, C9, 3B, 04, CD, 38, 31, 46, 00, 74, 13, 41, 83, F9, 2D, 72, F1, 8D, 48, ED, 83, F9, 11, 77, 0E, 6A, 0D, 58, 5D, C3, 8B, 04, CD, 3C, 31, 46, 00, 5D, C3, 05, 44, FF, FF, FF, 6A, 0E, 59, 3B, C8, 1B, C0, 23, C1, 83, C0, 08, 5D, C3, E8, E6, 10, 00, 00, 85, C0, 75, 06, B8, A0, 32, 46, 00, C3, 83, C0, 08, C3, E8, D3, 10, 00, 00, 85, C0, 75, 06, B8, A4, 32, 46, 00, C3, 83, C0, 0C, C3, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 56, E8, E2, FF, FF, FF, 8B, 4D, 08...
 
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Entropy:
6.4401

Code size:
281.5 KB (288,256 bytes)

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

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