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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 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. It is also typically executed from an Internet Explorer cache folder. The file has been seen being downloaded from get.sad1211.info.
Publisher:
VKQES  (signed by Start Playing)

Product:
VKQES

Version:
4310.1597.1160.2361

MD5:
6f9e71f35d2b469dfcd9ba203743ed3f

SHA-1:
af6e01c6fad197dbdcf40d469ae8b9c0ff441178

SHA-256:
a7e04737b896789a671f242220b97a95608c8e7e8742e8ee7736ca1809f5667e

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 '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 2:34:35 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Outbrowse.StartPla.Bundler (M)
16.6.26.17

File size:
586.5 KB (600,608 bytes)

Product version:
4310.1597.1160.2361

Copyright:
VKQES

Trademarks:
VKQES

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

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

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\microsoft\windows\temporary internet files\content.ie5\{random}\setup.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Start Playing

Authority:
GoDaddy.com, Inc.

Valid from:
4/8/2015 1:36:39 AM

Valid to:
12/8/2015 8:12:48 AM

Subject:
CN=Start Playing, O=Start Playing, 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:
4237C5AA0F933678

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
12/5/2009 4:52:12 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:j63YtwHct0638PNj6Iz7yCRNjA1SvWN3X95e:jeYtwHE8PcI60NUS+N9U

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:
7.8616

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.sad1211.info/1441670351/.../1441670351?21676226323ZWRuLiw9bmxpOy4kbzcsKjAwIGE7Ly4xMzAgajsrMzcxJG03KSBiLzcuLy0uMCBdLDsrKyNiMDssKx9eMjsnLiRhMzwnKiBkZ2ZibF5rZDdsX3JzaiNhaWdiZWJeO3VBQktSN0RIRTIvTzNTU0ouNC5JP0hKMCNnYG1tNywqJG5saTsuJGJpZzcv

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