setup.exe

APPS market ABC

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 APPS market ABC has been detected as adware by 15 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.
Publisher:
APPS market ABC  (signed and verified)

MD5:
a81f0a95a4ba3eb567254ba9c8fcd70d

SHA-1:
dcdb9294afdda569ee5e093e3079c5b5994b7926

SHA-256:
9ef27e6a205a68bbd469634e819f6dee468fff6a398a54ae0c336a487d359c71

Scanner detections:
15 / 68

Status:
Adware

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

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:
1/12/2025 8:55:00 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Agnitum Outpost
PUA.OutBrowse
7.1.1

Avira AntiVirus
PUA/Outbrowse.Gen
3.6.1.96

Dr.Web
Trojan.OutBrowse.139
9.0.1.083

ESET NOD32
Win32/OutBrowse.BU potentially unwanted application
9.7.0.302.0

F-Prot
W32/OutBrowse.J (exact, not disinfectable)
v6.4.6.5.141

G Data
NSIS.Application.OutBrowse.AC
15.3.25

herdProtect (fuzzy)
2015.6.29.6

Kaspersky
not-a-virus:AdWare.Win32.OutBrowse
14.0.0.2298

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.OutBrowse
v2015.03.24.08

McAfee
Adware-OutBrowse.e
5600.6817

NANO AntiVirus
Trojan.Win32.Generic.dorbni
0.30.8.659

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Bundler.Outbrowse
15.3.24.8

Trend Micro House Call
TROJ_GE.140966C9
7.2.83

Vba32 AntiVirus
Adware.Outbrowse
3.12.26.3

VIPRE Antivirus
Threat.4823950
38552

File size:
617.2 KB (631,976 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

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

Language:
Language Neutral

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\temp\setup.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:

Authority:
thawte, Inc.

Valid from:
3/11/2015 9:00:00 PM

Valid to:
1/27/2016 9:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=APPS market ABC, O=APPS market ABC, L=Dublin, S=Dublin, C=IE

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

Serial number:
2E574C8A18B3D92FB086716B1D74AE09

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:Sm8TohvQGQFPHaejh7nbnuGnwUivj+p8YMm5xPplXi:Sm8TohdUvaeRniGnwjj+jDi

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)

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