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shopping sidekick-bg.exe

Shopping Sidekick

Friendly Apps

This is part of a distribution package that is classified as adware distributed by 50onRed. This adware is used to interact with the installed web browsers and inject ads and modify the default search and homepages. The application shopping sidekick-bg.exe, “Shopping Sidekick exe” by Friendly Apps has been detected as adware by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat.
Publisher:
215 Apps  (signed by Friendly Apps)

Product:
Shopping Sidekick

Description:
Shopping Sidekick exe

Version:
1.1.150.17

MD5:
58b6b7411a5b4f21d23502a798812805

SHA-1:
8a736d8b2764990d82d1b88b702c3b9096a939bd

SHA-256:
2ab1d61ef5e263f4e1b016ca650a5208eca8fed55021e0290b9c7c89238b37a8

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.

Analysis date:
11/5/2024 8:28:08 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.50OnRed (M)
16.12.22.8

File size:
877.4 KB (898,440 bytes)

Product version:
1.1.150.17

Copyright:
Copyright 2011

Original file name:
Shopping Sidekick.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\Program Files\shopping sidekick\shopping sidekick-bg.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Friendly Apps

Authority:
Thawte, Inc.

Valid from:
4/30/2012 8:00:00 PM

Valid to:
5/1/2013 7:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Friendly Apps, O=Friendly Apps, L=Philadelphia, S=Pennsylvania, C=US

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

Serial number:
56D17D2D52C2BC3A2CECDA129CA33619

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
8/16/2012 2:13:34 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
10.0

Entry address:
0x80B69

Entry point:
E8, 40, A8, 00, 00, E9, 89, FE, FF, FF, 2D, A4, 03, 00, 00, 74, 22, 83, E8, 04, 74, 17, 83, E8, 0D, 74, 0C, 48, 74, 03, 33, C0, C3, B8, 04, 04, 00, 00, C3, B8, 12, 04, 00, 00, C3, B8, 04, 08, 00, 00, C3, B8, 11, 04, 00, 00, C3, 8B, FF, 56, 57, 8B, F0, 68, 01, 01, 00, 00, 33, FF, 8D, 46, 1C, 57, 50, E8, 77, D7, FF, FF, 33, C0, 0F, B7, C8, 8B, C1, 89, 7E, 04, 89, 7E, 08, 89, 7E, 0C, C1, E1, 10, 0B, C1, 8D, 7E, 10, AB, AB, AB, B9, 78, 90, 4D, 00, 83, C4, 0C, 8D, 46, 1C, 2B, CE, BF, 01, 01, 00, 00, 8A, 14, 01...
 
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Entropy:
6.5429

Code size:
732.5 KB (750,080 bytes)

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