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setup.exe

OUTBROWSE

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 OUTBROWSE has been detected as adware by 14 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.downloaddesktop2.com and multiple other hosts.
Publisher:
OUTBROWSE  (signed and verified)

MD5:
1bb4a2c4c5b318c557120d9bd59440da

SHA-1:
615d1b94268a8a43b3c48f91e2dd0f62e4fa0194

SHA-256:
d202d418bf9d9d7da221cc5fbc2b505e610ec97b8a1ca8baf232da87722a68f2

Scanner detections:
14 / 68

Status:
Adware

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

Description:
This is an installer which may bundle legitimate applications with offers for additional 3rd-party applications that may be unwanted by the user. While the installer contains an 'opt-out' feature this is not set be defult and is usually overlooked.

Analysis date:
11/9/2024 1:07:22 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

AhnLab V3 Security
PUP/Win32.OutBrowse
2014.07.29

Avira AntiVirus
APPL/Downloader.Gen
7.11.164.82

AVG
Generic
2015.0.3396

Dr.Web
Adware.Downware.2081
9.0.1.0212

ESET NOD32
Win32/OutBrowse.AC
8.10166

G Data
Win32.Application.Outbrowse
14.7.24

herdProtect (fuzzy)
variant of captain.america.the.winter.soldi.srt.exe (Adware)
2014.9.10.16

K7 AntiVirus
Unwanted-Program
13.181.12872

Kaspersky
not-a-virus:AdWare.Win32.OutBrowse
14.0.0.3477

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.OutBrowse
v2014.07.31.12

McAfee
Adware-OutBrowse
5600.7052

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Installer.OUTBROWSE.F
14.8.7.20

Sophos
OutBrowse Revenyou
4.98

VIPRE Antivirus
OutBrowse
31696

File size:
553.7 KB (567,000 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

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

Language:
Language Neutral

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
OUTBROWSE

Authority:
COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:
4/6/2014 9:00:00 PM

Valid to:
4/7/2015 8:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=OUTBROWSE, O=OUTBROWSE, STREET=Bialik Number: 143, L=Ramat Gan, S=Israel, PostalCode=5252337, C=IL

Issuer:
CN=COMODO Code Signing CA 2, O=COMODO CA Limited, L=Salford, S=Greater Manchester, C=GB

Serial number:
00A5F03C3A375C11FD6C1C160EE8BFF923

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
12/5/2009 8:50:52 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:fNUnYdbT2wW+c1fFbftgCin2JI6J8bc1YT/AAUHnOikKWF:fNUnY03lgd2J0bqAUsKW

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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Packer / compiler:
Nullsoft install system v2.x

Code size:
23.5 KB (24,064 bytes)

The file setup.exe has been seen being distributed by the following 2 URLs.

http://get.downloaddesktop2.com/.../Get?p=3005&d=1775&l=1694&n=0&clickid=ee2a95dd194f2be943f977d35d6825f4&d1=11961&d2=-1&d3=-1&d4=-1&d5=-1&filename=setup

http://mmtrkms.com/mt/.../&subid1=DG

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