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SoftBrain Technologies Ltd.

The application smartwebinstaller.exe, “SoftBrain Technologies Ltd. - Price Comparison” 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. The file has been seen being downloaded from cdn77.airdwnlds.com and multiple other hosts a known adware distribution point operated by Air Software.
Publisher:
SoftBrain Technologies Ltd.  (signed and verified)

Product:
SmartWeb

Description:
SoftBrain Technologies Ltd. - Price Comparison

Version:
8.0.3.6

MD5:
d77a5bf20cca455c0cf9132c6533d643

SHA-1:
6ec81c96cc702409537cd2e858612388df39459f

SHA-256:
53eb9a23336d7d4617ebea582d7e9ba7c175e4bc03d1d8a733b56766dfd870e6

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:
11/5/2024 8:24:20 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Installer.SoftBrainTechnologies
15.4.24.0

File size:
737.3 KB (755,016 bytes)

Product version:
8.0.3

Copyright:
SoftBrain Technologies Ltd.

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)

Language:
English (United States)

Digital Signature
Signed by:
SoftBrain Technologies Ltd.

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
2/24/2014 1:00:00 AM

Valid to:
2/25/2015 12:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=SoftBrain Technologies Ltd., OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O=SoftBrain Technologies Ltd., L=Or Yehuda, 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:
53F07650CBBFA5BC97F5276104D31164

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
12/5/2009 11:50:52 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:bW2hv0YHH7L4knKvvFU0fy5VlW7FAtyExhuxJRoSPNEWHCETv0YHH7fVWQP:K2hvpnHnqi02k7FAtTniJRYETvpnxWe

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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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 3 URLs.

http://cdn77.airdwnlds.com/downloads/offers/.../SmartWebInstaller.exe

http://cdn.airdlr6.com/downloads/offers/.../SmartWebInstaller.exe

http://vzbucket.maxrevinstaller.com/.../SmartWebInstaller.exe

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