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Shopping Sidekick

Friendly Apps

This is the installer application for a 50onRed advertising supported software package (displays ads in the browser and may hijack the home and search pages of the web browser). The file shoppingsidekick_gb, “Shopping Sidekick Installer” by Friendly Apps 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 Nullsoft Install System installer. It is also typically executed from an Internet Explorer cache folder.
Publisher:
215 Apps  (signed by Friendly Apps)

Product:
Shopping Sidekick

Description:
Shopping Sidekick Installer

Version:
1.22.150.150

MD5:
8f295b4f817618f67a34bba368e10628

SHA-1:
eb93dcd15f676051f40b2f54637c6fe15ef9a290

SHA-256:
0feabda3988d80b19990a7f2e612d24d47d6d640bb052632ed27e91f4e71dcf5

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:
11/23/2024 7:58:00 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.50OnRed (M)
16.11.8.4

File size:
1.9 MB (1,959,672 bytes)

Copyright:
Copyright 215 Apps

Installer:
Nullsoft Install System

Language:
English (United States)

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Friendly Apps

Authority:
Thawte, Inc.

Valid from:
5/1/2012 1:00:00 AM

Valid to:
5/2/2013 12:59:59 AM

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:
1/5/2010 12:09:32 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.56

CTPH (ssdeep):
49152:5bI7RPfEis8+fzHYmdc3P5AZJ6kf0VtgOAP:271cSknfIWh

Entry address:
0x4044

Entry point:
55, 89, E5, 57, 56, 53, 81, EC, AC, 01, 00, 00, E8, 97, 52, 00, 00, C7, 04, 24, 01, 80, 00, 00, E8, 43, 4F, 00, 00, 56, C7, 04, 24, 00, 00, 00, 00, E8, A6, 52, 00, 00, A3, 88, 5C, 42, 00, 53, C7, 04, 24, 08, 00, 00, 00, E8, 26, 32, 00, 00, A3, 38, 5D, 42, 00, 8D, 85, 84, FE, FF, FF, 51, C7, 44, 24, 10, 00, 00, 00, 00, C7, 44, 24, 0C, 60, 01, 00, 00, 89, 44, 24, 08, C7, 44, 24, 04, 00, 00, 00, 00, C7, 04, 24, A4, B2, 40, 00, E8, D0, 51, 00, 00, 83, EC, 14, C7, 44, 24, 04, A5, B2, 40, 00, C7, 04, 24, 68, 5D...
 
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Entropy:
7.9916  (probably packed)

Code size:
33 KB (33,792 bytes)

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