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This is the OutBrowse Revenyou installer which bundles offers for additional third party applications that may be unwanted and installed without consent. The application remove wat.exe by Best app has been detected as adware by 7 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the OutBrowse Revenyou installer. The setup routine uses the RevenYou.Com Pay Per Install platform (OutBrowse) which bundles additional software offers inclduing toolbars, extensions, PC utilities as well as other PUPs. The file has been seen being downloaded from get.file5desktop.com.
Publisher:
Best app  (signed and verified)

MD5:
d656b5885dad2c1da40c0992cb74d73d

SHA-1:
6c778ba99076bfc38ec00e5ee5ac6b9f630b518c

SHA-256:
7a57a9d33e6864c78884995581bc4c65efb4d7940eac1b88424f1fd4d85e938e

Scanner detections:
7 / 68

Status:
Adware

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

Description:
This 'download manager' is also considered bundleware, a utility designed to download software (possibly legitimate or opensource) and bundle it with a number of optional offers including ad-supported utilities, toolbars, shopping comparison tools and browser extensions.

Analysis date:
11/5/2024 7:38:01 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

AhnLab V3 Security
PUP/Win32.OutBrowse
2015.01.02

Avira AntiVirus
APPL/Outbrowse.Gen
7.11.198.252

ESET NOD32
Win32/OutBrowse.BQ potentially unwanted application
7.0.302.0

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.OutBrowse
v2015.01.01.06

McAfee
Adware-OutBrowse.d
5600.6898

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Bestapp.K
15.1.4.13

Trend Micro House Call
Suspici.202D3B0F
7.2.1

File size:
580.9 KB (594,808 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

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

Language:
Language Neutral

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Best app

Authority:
thawte, Inc.

Valid from:
12/16/2014 4:00:00 PM

Valid to:
12/17/2015 3:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Best app, O=Best app, L=Dublin, S=Dublin, C=IE

Issuer:
CN=thawte SHA256 Code Signing CA, O="thawte, Inc.", C=US

Serial number:
30BCCA0188EBA5E04F507F7E5C0B999C

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
12/5/2009 2:50:52 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:4y6XQSvVQx9lHXzZF+pV87GhuiClOoBbnE8gIAzt+N0K:4y6XQSvex9ZXzn+p4iClOCbzQt+B

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:
7.9742

Packer / compiler:
Nullsoft install system v2.x

Code size:
23.5 KB (24,064 bytes)

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

http://get.file5desktop.com/.../get?p=6207&d=8298&l=7799&n=1&filename=Remove WAT

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