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smartwebinstaller.exe

SoftBrain Technologies Ltd.

The application smartwebinstaller.exe by SoftBrain Technologies has been detected as a potentially unwanted program 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 NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) installer. It is also typically executed from an Internet Explorer cache folder. The file has been seen being downloaded from inst.smart-web.me.
Publisher:
SoftBrain Technologies Ltd.  (signed and verified)

MD5:
0ec13b0deb5997a0c0d8830d478bb486

SHA-1:
0baf6eb58f3dd08fae48da4288485995c1408574

SHA-256:
06fcb3f1a36916e3f2fb4618eb6051a8f1f59ad6ceddb172ee512746c9a3d00c

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

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:
12/24/2024 3:51:22 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP (M)
16.8.3.9

File size:
741.7 KB (759,544 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
SoftBrain Technologies Ltd.

Authority:
Symantec Corporation

Valid from:
1/12/2015 7:00:00 PM

Valid to:
3/13/2016 7:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=SoftBrain Technologies Ltd., O=SoftBrain Technologies Ltd., L=Or Yehuda, S=Israel, C=IL

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

Serial number:
0E056BE2C82AF2FAD3F0D3BD43387AB2

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
12/5/2009 5:50:52 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:MSjoAxlVNWJEGMx9tRAidB8qm2ynh21v0hOFbgZHvASlT0fhJfg+KjBwzU/3SEnq:v9xl3Z1qMB8l2ynhyv3dgRK5taBcU/Ct

Entry address:
0x30FA

Entry point:
81, EC, 80, 01, 00, 00, 53, 55, 56, 33, DB, 57, 89, 5C, 24, 18, C7, 44, 24, 10, 60, 91, 40, 00, 33, F6, C6, 44, 24, 14, 20, FF, 15, 30, 70, 40, 00, 68, 01, 80, 00, 00, FF, 15, B0, 70, 40, 00, 53, FF, 15, 7C, 72, 40, 00, 6A, 08, A3, 18, EC, 42, 00, E8, F1, 2B, 00, 00, A3, 64, EB, 42, 00, 53, 8D, 44, 24, 34, 68, 60, 01, 00, 00, 50, 53, 68, 98, 8F, 42, 00, FF, 15, 58, 71, 40, 00, 68, 54, 91, 40, 00, 68, 60, E3, 42, 00, E8, A4, 28, 00, 00, FF, 15, AC, 70, 40, 00, BF, 00, 40, 43, 00, 50, 57, E8, 92, 28, 00, 00...
 
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Entropy:
7.9620

Packer / compiler:
Nullsoft install system v2.x

Code size:
23.5 KB (24,064 bytes)

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

http://inst.smart-web.me/inst/.../SmartWebInstaller.exe

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