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SimboInitApp.exe

SweetPacks Browser Updater

SweetIM Technologies Ltd

This is part of the Montera web browser toolbar and extension that will modify the browser's default search provider, DNS, and home page functions. The application SimboInitApp.exe by SweetIM Technologies has been detected as adware by 6 anti-malware scanners. This will modify the wbe browser's home and search pages and search provider as well as display various advertisements. The file has been seen being downloaded from cdn.download.sweetpacks.com and multiple other hosts.
Publisher:
SweetIM Technologies Ltd.  (signed by SweetIM Technologies Ltd)

Product:
SweetPacks Browser Updater

Version:
1, 0, 0, 7

MD5:
3d163f2ed6d30593f69a0ce1e3fbfd02

SHA-1:
ed351854dd30c0b88daaa73e949b78e0909bfd08

SHA-256:
9a203bca31311dc4e883411078f18a359de5454234ee4c558385b8db4beb2d9f

Scanner detections:
6 / 68

Status:
Adware

Analysis date:
11/6/2024 4:58:59 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Boost by Reason
Adware.SweetIM.M
2013.8.29.0

Comodo Security
TrojWare.Win32.Trojan.Agent.Gen
17486

Dr.Web
Adware.SweetIM.18
9.0.1.0241

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.SweetIM
v2013.08.29.12

Reason Heuristics
PUP.SweetIM.M
14.8.7.19

VIPRE Antivirus
Sweetpacks/SweetIM
24658

File size:
1.2 MB (1,285,976 bytes)

Product version:
1.0.0.7

Copyright:
Copyright © 2012 SweetIM Technologies Ltd.

Original file name:
SimboInitApp.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
English (United States)

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
SweetIM Technologies Ltd

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
1/9/2011 4:00:00 PM

Valid to:
2/4/2014 3:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=SweetIM Technologies Ltd, OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O=SweetIM Technologies Ltd, L=Ra'anana, S=Israel, C=IL

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:
5E3BF2B52DA9EA7F1B539A7F018F4EC6

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
10/29/2012 8:27:33 AM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:6pRIkHfrdrCOzWk9pZq8XwHfBye53NqD1EQoVsx5dHTUx/:6pRhv9gHfUU3Nu1EQmsxDk/

Entry address:
0x7221

Entry point:
E8, 6C, 41, 00, 00, E9, 79, FE, FF, FF, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 83, EC, 20, 53, 33, DB, 39, 5D, 14, 75, 20, E8, 07, 2D, 00, 00, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, C7, 00, 16, 00, 00, 00, E8, A2, 0A, 00, 00, 83, C4, 14, 83, C8, FF, E9, C5, 00, 00, 00, 56, 8B, 75, 0C, 57, 8B, 7D, 10, 3B, FB, 74, 24, 3B, F3, 75, 20, E8, D7, 2C, 00, 00, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, C7, 00, 16, 00, 00, 00, E8, 72, 0A, 00, 00, 83, C4, 14, 83, C8, FF, E9, 93, 00, 00, 00, C7, 45, EC, 42, 00, 00, 00, 89, 75, E8, 89, 75, E0, 81, FF, FF, FF, FF, 3F, 76, 09, C7...
 
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Entropy:
6.6278

Code size:
89.5 KB (91,648 bytes)

The file SimboInitApp.exe has been seen being distributed by the following 2 URLs.

http://cdn.download.sweetpacks.com/simsdm/.../simboapp.exe

http://download.sweetpacks.com/simsdm/.../simboapp.exe

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