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setup.exe

clipqube

This is the installer and setup program from the clipqube branded Yontoo adware web browser extension. This adware injects various forms of advertisements in the user's web browser based on the HTML content and URLs viewed. Ad include banners, in-line context text links, coupons, and search. The program will install an auto-updating background service that will update the software with additional features. The application setup.exe by clipqube has been detected as adware by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat.
Publisher:
clipqube  (signed and verified)

MD5:
e0eb09b878e9e13b63194f06ec992535

SHA-1:
b002ea38297b4248b44f82651314c33a7e768061

SHA-256:
0bbf5e74a72ca9c662a2c794e4f98bbba2b8f943e3850c6502f19813a9d807f4

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Adware

Explanation:
Belongs to the Sambreel/Yontoo progam that inserts various forms of advertising in the user's web browser, installed with minimal or no user consent.

Analysis date:
11/25/2024 9:48:26 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Yontoo (M)
17.2.22.11

File size:
254 KB (260,136 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
clipqube

Authority:
Thawte, Inc.

Valid from:
10/30/2014 7:00:00 PM

Valid to:
11/18/2015 5:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=clipqube, O=clipqube, L=Tel Aviv, S=Israel, C=IL

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

Serial number:
1FCBFDBEAD545580F2531ECD63A07DB9

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
3/1/2015 6:23:06 AM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
12.0

Entry address:
0x30BA

Entry point:
E8, 8D, 48, 00, 00, E9, 00, 00, 00, 00, 6A, 14, 68, 48, AD, 41, 00, E8, F0, 2D, 00, 00, E8, 5E, 4A, 00, 00, 0F, B7, F0, 6A, 02, E8, 20, 48, 00, 00, 59, B8, 4D, 5A, 00, 00, 66, 39, 05, 00, 00, 40, 00, 74, 04, 33, DB, EB, 33, A1, 3C, 00, 40, 00, 81, B8, 00, 00, 40, 00, 50, 45, 00, 00, 75, EB, B9, 0B, 01, 00, 00, 66, 39, 88, 18, 00, 40, 00, 75, DD, 33, DB, 83, B8, 74, 00, 40, 00, 0E, 76, 09, 39, 98, E8, 00, 40, 00, 0F, 95, C3, 89, 5D, E4, E8, DF, 3F, 00, 00, 85, C0, 75, 08, 6A, 1C, E8, DC, 00, 00, 00, 59, E8...
 
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Entropy:
6.8981

Code size:
77 KB (78,848 bytes)

The executing file has been seen to make the following network communications in live environments.

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to wac.edgecastcdn.net  (72.21.81.13:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to service.yontoo.com  (8.25.35.148:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to api.yontoo.com  (8.25.35.15:80)

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