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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 player.exe by Start Now has been detected as adware by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. The program is a setup application that uses the OutBrowse Revenyou installer. The file has been seen being downloaded from get.ddlmedia.info.
Publisher:
Start Now  (signed and verified)

MD5:
8ed88cd7fa8fbe644185e7657bfe4148

SHA-1:
626439834e4a65aae3f0bcc402bc176223279c74

SHA-256:
97ef99128197bccac6c7dded263081450ab76ab547e87bbcf0f601ecba0b7036

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Adware

Note:
Our current pool of anti-malware engines have not currently detected this file, however based on our own detection heuristics we feel that this file is unwanted.

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:
11/24/2024 3:47:14 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Outbrowse (M)
16.8.3.22

File size:
570.6 KB (584,328 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
OutBrowse Revenyou (using Nullsoft Install System)

Language:
Language Neutral

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Start Now

Authority:
thawte, Inc.

Valid from:
12/11/2014 2:00:00 AM

Valid to:
12/12/2015 1:59:59 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:
3E1F0E273F3FF952C7CBBBD1B9B74B0A

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

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:H7kC/5AadVBnpql54Ia99iRZGDP3AFNbSNf9i:HN5AejhI0iRZjPbKfQ

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:
7.9736

Packer / compiler:
Nullsoft install system v2.x

Code size:
23.5 KB (24,064 bytes)

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

http://get.ddlmedia.info/.../Get?l=1694&d=24937&n=0&p=7317&productName=player&filename=Player&d1=-1&d2=-1&d3=-1&d4=-1&d5=-1&clickid=FKEQFiBQu2FwLg7bnCLfovbPLpewszqQM6soWC2cRCF5RvyYkbK2MQOXHpNomvJB2Mr3_gJ-9W892LxycjVezU-sG_35YSUvytZepQVA80QY6MNW4Zyzo0B9q8vwrfHpv3nVBUTgSQGt93PD7AUtCiwpRO4Zq87aQ4w8yfwt_Ez9mWgi6kpJKSbybb28iG3EsWJxFAuT-xu-baspco3dnRThjTnXvhlNI1bVtAMqKGFjv2d5irI6jGQmK1GLfrwi

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