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ps3bios.exe

The application ps3bios.exe has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 24 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) installer, however the file is not signed with an authenticode signature from a trusted source. According to AVG, this software downloads additional adware offers during setup. The file has been seen being downloaded from doc-00-0c-docs.googleusercontent.com and multiple other hosts.
MD5:
4896bb7d3e302e6c0c110344d81c024e

SHA-1:
976382928347c4bffcf9549b74ae795bf16ecbe8

SHA-256:
56e875b2e6fc0241370631d9461b78329d68107abf429e3dbb5a6aa8ba94d9d5

Scanner detections:
24 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Explanation:
Bundles additional adware offers during download and installation using the OutBrowse installer.

Analysis date:
12/25/2024 5:42:04 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Dropped:Application.Bundler.Outbrowse.AA
753

Agnitum Outpost
PUA.OutBrowse
7.1.1

AhnLab V3 Security
PUP/Win32.OutBrowse
2015.01.12

Avira AntiVirus
APPL/Downloader.Gen
7.11.200.132

AVG
Downloader
2016.0.3231

Baidu Antivirus
PUA.Win32.OutBrowse
4.0.3.15113

Bitdefender
Dropped:Application.Bundler.Outbrowse.AA
1.0.20.65

Dr.Web
Trojan.OutBrowse.51
9.0.1.013

ESET NOD32
Win32/OutBrowse.BM
9.10996

Fortinet FortiGate
Riskware/OutBrowse
1/13/2015

F-Secure
Dropped:Application.Bundler.Outbrowse
11.2015-13-01_3

G Data
Dropped:Application.Bundler.Outbrowse.AA
15.1.24

K7 AntiVirus
Unwanted-Program
13.190.14603

Kaspersky
not-a-virus:AdWare.MSIL.OutBrowse
14.0.0.2649

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.OutBrowse
v2015.01.13.02

McAfee
RDN/Generic PUP.x!cq3
5600.6887

MicroWorld eScan
Dropped:Application.Bundler.Outbrowse.AA
16.0.0.39

NANO AntiVirus
Trojan.Win32.OutBrowse.dluceg
0.30.0.64448

Qihoo 360 Security
HEUR/QVM42.0.Malware.Gen
1.0.0.1015

Sophos
Generic PUA NO
4.98

Trend Micro House Call
TROJ_GEN.F0C2C00LS14
7.2.13

Trend Micro
TROJ_GEN.F0C2C00LS14
10.465.13

Vba32 AntiVirus
AdWare.MSIL.OutBrowse
3.12.26.3

VIPRE Antivirus
Trojan.Win32.Generic
36562

File size:
573.4 KB (587,178 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)

Language:
Language Neutral

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\ps3bios.exe

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
12/6/2009 9:50:52 AM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:0faUJh819WiV08s4AkRd5zrfzb19aZRD34f9g:0e1s2s4AkRdtrfPLaZRsfq

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:
7.9740

Packer / compiler:
Nullsoft install system v2.x

Code size:
23.5 KB (24,064 bytes)

The file ps3bios.exe has been seen being distributed by the following 3 URLs.

https://doc-00-0c-docs.googleusercontent.com/docs/securesc/kd2sqggd5fillt98aau6jd3bvmtch0tb/07mc74up4c9uqr25v2jqj5ti92ugubdv/1421100000000/04540964033225882248/.../0B-F2o1QKGDyiZFkzN2Q5eU1COWs?e=download

https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&confirm=&id=0B-F2o1QKGDyiZFkzN2Q5eU1COWs

http://bit.ly/1v9pVT3

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