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setup.exe

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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:
File

Version:
1.9.3.0

MD5:
28d601ec9e61882dd46234401a1fe7e0

SHA-1:
e9bbab7079cb9a79501c3f8850230acab6510b14

SHA-256:
c76055d134744ddd1500b4007339a6995de00620381949fe753f8927c3818b69

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 8:40:55 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Outbrowse.staRTPlAyIng.Bundler (M)
16.2.9.13

File size:
1.3 MB (1,386,992 bytes)

Product version:
1.9.3.0

Copyright:
File

Original file name:
Ionic.Zip-2015May21-222712-a86199b4-fa86-4893-ae8c-df5064b85da2.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
OutBrowse Revenyou

Language:
Language Neutral

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
staRT PlAyIng

Authority:
thawte, Inc.

Valid from:
5/17/2015 8:00:00 PM

Valid to:
12/11/2015 6:59:59 PM

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:
5/21/2015 6:27:12 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
8.0

.NET CLR dependent:
Yes

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:di4RbSaE4mvt/rfNRDt7Ktuo6nziM1dUk+x/lKEc:di4RbSv4mv1fNRDFKDomM1dH+xu

Entry address:
0x9D65E

Entry point:
FF, 25, 00, 20, 40, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00...
 
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Entropy:
7.5451

Developed / compiled with:
Microsoft Visual C# / Basic .NET

Code size:
624 KB (638,976 bytes)

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

http://get.downward234.info/.../1432247236/1432247236?77068339354YF50Ky48bTQ0LiwrH2Q3KjEyKzAhaDYqNjMsI2s0LiFgKjYxMigzMh1gZ2VcZGleNTAtLy0uMTIuMzIeZmBmazguH3NpajUu

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