siterankersetup.exe

SiteRanker

Crawler Group, LLC

The application siterankersetup.exe, “SiteRanker Setup ” by Crawler Group 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 Inno Setup installer. It is also typically executed from the user's temporary directory. The file has been seen being downloaded from dnl.siteranker.com.
Publisher:
Crawler Group   (signed by Crawler Group, LLC)

Product:
SiteRanker

Description:
SiteRanker Setup

Version:
1.0.0.141

MD5:
55ad49464abd71e4fe1d4bf955da6dc2

SHA-1:
088f924ce89d684ff34059ca170a854f41e97e0f

SHA-256:
9198663f79be33d5fda1572584bd743d80a0884e1d4d2a4e14d18b434e86f865

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:
11/30/2024 8:56:28 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Crawler.CrawlerG.Installer (M)
16.4.8.14

File size:
1.1 MB (1,102,320 bytes)

Product version:
1.0.0.141

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
Inno Setup

Language:
Language Neutral

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\temp\{random}.tmp\siterankersetup.exe

Digital Signature
Authority:
Symantec Corporation

Valid from:
4/4/2016 9:00:00 PM

Valid to:
8/20/2017 8:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN="Crawler Group, LLC", O="Crawler Group, LLC", L=Wilmington, S=Delaware, C=US

Issuer:
CN=Symantec Class 3 SHA256 Code Signing CA, OU=Symantec Trust Network, O=Symantec Corporation, C=US

Serial number:
533225A4195C349EB2DE67B04D02A0C4

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
6/19/1992 7:22:17 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.25

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:JgerOSMfoBZ305xoe8UkdVhhOHslkaV59IPUE5CT:Xrw/AdVmsGimoT

Entry address:
0xC1C0

Entry point:
55, 8B, EC, 83, C4, A4, 53, 56, 57, 33, C0, 89, 45, C4, 89, 45, C0, 89, 45, A4, 89, 45, D0, 89, 45, C8, 89, 45, CC, 89, 45, D4, 89, 45, D8, 89, 45, EC, B8, C8, C0, 40, 00, E8, 60, 86, FF, FF, 33, C0, 55, 68, 85, C8, 40, 00, 64, FF, 30, 64, 89, 20, 33, D2, 55, 68, 41, C8, 40, 00, 64, FF, 32, 64, 89, 22, A1, 60, E6, 40, 00, E8, 5E, FD, FF, FF, E8, C9, F8, FF, FF, 8D, 55, EC, 33, C0, E8, 93, CA, FF, FF, 8B, 55, EC, B8, 8C, F0, 40, 00, E8, 0A, 77, FF, FF, 6A, 02, 6A, 00, 6A, 01, 8B, 0D, 8C, F0, 40, 00, B2, 01...
 
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Developed / compiled with:
Microsoft Visual C++

Code size:
46.5 KB (47,616 bytes)

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

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