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setup.exe

Download Manager

staRT PlAyIng

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 PlAyIng 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.downward234.info.
Publisher:
staRT PlAyIng  (signed and verified)

Product:
Download Manager

Version:
1.15522.80.0

MD5:
d7f8ebd833ecb5455499b5900b7b4c22

SHA-1:
ac3c4b8357e63b3a4db56e0bc3b60f3d35224195

SHA-256:
00a3317f3591ba2410c5cb929e1ee5b9a032b41af556fddc9418358e427a7aa9

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:
12/26/2024 8:12:48 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Outbrowse.staRTPlAyIng.Bundler (M)
16.3.4.18

File size:
696.2 KB (712,896 bytes)

Product version:
1.15522.80.0

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:
staRT PlAyIng

Authority:
thawte, Inc.

Valid from:
5/18/2015 7:00:00 AM

Valid to:
12/12/2015 6:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=staRT PlAyIng, O=staRT PlAyIng, L=Dublin, S=Dublin, C=IE

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

Serial number:
0768DE98A7700CEC69341965A40B088F

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
12/6/2009 5:52:12 AM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:+oaRsAz5BQGsp/oxnaHSDZ/O9CKGV4C5rRyhnFNSNLTy73Ie5Js:+oaGu5mHp/qnaa/5Kq4EmGyT0

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, 1C, 45, 00, E8, F1, 2B, 00, 00, A3, 64, 1B, 45, 00, 53, 8D, 44, 24, 34, 68, 60, 01, 00, 00, 50, 53, 68, 98, 37, 43, 00, FF, 15, 58, 71, 40, 00, 68, 54, 91, 40, 00, 68, 60, DB, 44, 00, E8, A4, 28, 00, 00, FF, 15, AC, 70, 40, 00, BF, 00, A0, 47, 00, 50, 57, E8, 92, 28, 00, 00...
 
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Entropy:
7.9575

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 URL.

http://get.downward234.info/.../1432262642/1432262642?60080762796YWV0KTY4ajsrLy8gZD0qNSsxMB9jNyw0NCszH2g7Kh1qbG9kbWNtaF9mXDc b3dmbGhbYiREW2hhZ11yH007MS4zLjE3LTUwM18tKzAzYjgxMSwtNl5bX19kYi9kMDEkXm9fb3JsNWhtbm4eKlsfMmYdMl9dYmclXFxjZGYxJ11tZhwsYERyYXZebERiZV5fcl9LZW1vbidccl8mZHFuWmdnXGVbZ2U9PHJicGNrPWNoZGVqJl9jal5lW2dlPWtlbW9uH1pmY2NrYWQ2K2QpWyozNTIuYSszMltcYDNjNTE3LDExLC9bYDhmKmUfY2FoZTcrJnphcDYq

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