setup.exe

File

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 setup.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.0122c.info.
Publisher:
Start Now  (signed and verified)

Product:
File

Version:
1.9.3.0

MD5:
bc8b987fcd4abca38b46513fa18b7597

SHA-1:
3e31c7572f56454b02a754b5c443f1437d815a54

SHA-256:
9cf0325a6ce85018178e1d0b00c05555bd311a8451a5ec239722b5cba28128ac

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:
11/27/2024 4:47:15 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Outbrowse.StartNow.Bundler (M)
16.1.13.8

File size:
1.1 MB (1,101,696 bytes)

Product version:
1.9.3.0

Copyright:
File

Original file name:
Ionic.Zip-2015Apr22-003623-e2902acf-5d1d-42b9-85c2-6a146970fb88.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
OutBrowse Revenyou

Language:
Language Neutral

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:

Authority:
GoDaddy.com, Inc.

Valid from:
4/8/2015 4:35:38 AM

Valid to:
10/29/2015 1:30:53 PM

Subject:
CN=Start Now, O=Start Now, L=DUBLIN, C=IE

Issuer:
CN=Go Daddy Secure Certificate Authority - G2, OU=http://certs.godaddy.com/repository/, O="GoDaddy.com, Inc.", L=Scottsdale, S=Arizona, C=US

Serial number:
00D22A7FBACEC36AE8

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
4/21/2015 9:36:23 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows Console

Linker version:
8.0

.NET CLR dependent:
Yes

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:QbSaE4mvt/p6/NfPXdCEQK+YvJZD7xtQSzF+4z:QbSv4mvD65PXd+lScg

Entry address:
0x75F3E

Entry point:
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Developed / compiled with:
Microsoft Visual C# / Basic .NET

Code size:
464 KB (475,136 bytes)

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

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