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Prompt

Smart Applications

Part of the Yontoo adware component, a web browser plugin that injects unwanted ads in the browser. The application shortcut.exe by Smart Applications has been detected as adware by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat.
Publisher:
Smart Applications  (signed and verified)

Product:
Prompt

Version:
1.1.0.0

MD5:
6100a3d8996a3a1f192905f65c3c0260

SHA-1:
b70f368b4aabd86eb57ba76a33d0070705fa3027

SHA-256:
db774288944aa2a8a705982891911d0962bc6d37edced0fe4d854d1172297a06

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:
11/5/2024 5:54:54 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Yontoo (M)
16.11.1.14

File size:
1.1 MB (1,163,520 bytes)

Product version:
1.1.0.0

Copyright:
Copyright © 2014

Original file name:
shortcut.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
Language Neutral

Common path:
C:\Program Files\speed browser\application\shortcut.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Smart Applications

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
11/14/2014 5:30:00 AM

Valid to:
11/15/2015 5:29:59 AM

Subject:
CN=Smart Applications, O=Smart Applications, L=St. James, S=St. James, C=BB

Issuer:
CN=VeriSign Class 3 Code Signing 2010 CA, OU=Terms of use at https://www.verisign.com/rpa (c)10, OU=VeriSign Trust Network, O="VeriSign, Inc.", C=US

Serial number:
4CF1C880A6746C7D0CDCB1393793A057

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
3/18/2015 4:47:42 AM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
11.0

.NET CLR dependent:
Yes

CTPH (ssdeep):
768:mPMaOYcT46zD2aw3fWdbkaXQKD4ZEO4HDKkYUZB9XOdS:taOZT4jawuyaA9cjKkpLO

Entry address:
0xAD2E

Entry point:
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Entropy:
0.5022

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

Code size:
35.5 KB (36,352 bytes)

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