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Search Toolbar Powered by Inbox

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The application searchsetup.exe, “Search Toolbar Powered by Inbox Setup ” by Xacti has been detected as a potentially unwanted program 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 Inno Setup installer. The file has been seen being downloaded from www.search-inbox.com.
Publisher:
Xacti, LLC   (signed by Xacti)

Product:
Search Toolbar Powered by Inbox

Description:
Search Toolbar Powered by Inbox Setup

Version:
2.0.1.112

MD5:
392d4091c41d5e6577e9ed34f6294ec1

SHA-1:
3b24fe957fd96eccd23eff9bf06629db5af2dee0

SHA-256:
26c12e2ddb1793ab83230816ff2c678b72604acb477bf14a71929fba53b80daa

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Analysis date:
12/26/2024 12:42:36 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
Win32.Generic
16.4.4.20

File size:
2.3 MB (2,452,256 bytes)

Product version:
2.0.1.112

Copyright:
copyright © Inbox.com

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
Inno Setup

Language:
Language Neutral

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\microsoft\windows\inetcache\ie\{random}\searchsetup.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Xacti

Authority:
Thawte, Inc.

Valid from:
8/28/2013 7:00:00 PM

Valid to:
9/18/2015 6:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Xacti, O=Xacti, L=Boca Raton, S=Florida, C=US

Issuer:
CN=Thawte Code Signing CA - G2, O="Thawte, Inc.", C=US

Serial number:
723180E2A807DDA0F77264108931DA53

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
6/19/1992 5:22:17 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.25

CTPH (ssdeep):
49152:vDQTgSJ03fWLMGZrJ80dbAskZPVFwdECebA5rOYiZnS:Pa03fW1rK0qhwdECebSivZnS

Entry address:
0xC1C0

Entry point:
55, 8B, EC, 83, C4, A4, 53, 56, 57, 33, C0, 89, 45, C4, 89, 45, C0, 89, 45, A4, 89, 45, D0, 89, 45, C8, 89, 45, CC, 89, 45, D4, 89, 45, D8, 89, 45, EC, B8, C8, C0, 40, 00, E8, 60, 86, FF, FF, 33, C0, 55, 68, 85, C8, 40, 00, 64, FF, 30, 64, 89, 20, 33, D2, 55, 68, 41, C8, 40, 00, 64, FF, 32, 64, 89, 22, A1, 60, E6, 40, 00, E8, 5E, FD, FF, FF, E8, C9, F8, FF, FF, 8D, 55, EC, 33, C0, E8, 93, CA, FF, FF, 8B, 55, EC, B8, 8C, F0, 40, 00, E8, 0A, 77, FF, FF, 6A, 02, 6A, 00, 6A, 01, 8B, 0D, 8C, F0, 40, 00, B2, 01...
 
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Entropy:
7.9938

Developed / compiled with:
Microsoft Visual C++

Code size:
46.5 KB (47,616 bytes)

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

http://www.search-inbox.com/.../SearchSetup.exe

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