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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 9 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) installer. The file has been seen being downloaded from inst.smart-web.me.
Publisher:
SoftBrain Technologies Ltd.  (signed and verified)

Product:
SmartWeb

Description:
SoftBrain Technologies Ltd. - Price Comparison

Version:
8.0.7.1

MD5:
c8ff1216c60e99cd0128c33892082597

SHA-1:
be2ef492c5372c366cb9d56625c3efc1c861c9c2

SHA-256:
43e3897646af41abf63852a44979b78a76ece8b35460451f9bd618683e557bf7

Scanner detections:
9 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Explanation:
Displays offers (for product and services) of certain deals related to the search terms or context of a webpage which are popups outside the normal browser content.

Analysis date:
11/23/2024 11:00:07 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Avira AntiVirus
ADWARE/Adware.Gen7
7.11.206.130

Baidu Antivirus
PUA.Win32.PriceGong
4.0.3.1522

ESET NOD32
Win32/PriceGong.C potentially unwanted (variant)
9.11110

IKARUS anti.virus
PUA.PriceGong
t3scan.1.8.6.0

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.SmartWeb.A
v2015.02.02.02

McAfee
Artemis!C8FF1216C60E
5600.6866

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Installer.SoftBrainTechnologies
15.4.24.0

Sophos
Generic PUA LO
4.98

Trend Micro House Call
Suspicious_GEN.F47V0128
7.2.33

File size:
738.9 KB (756,680 bytes)

Product version:
8.0.7

Copyright:
SoftBrain Technologies Ltd.

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\microsoft\windows\inetcache\content.ie5\fl8alm6t\smartwebinstaller.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
SoftBrain Technologies Ltd.

Authority:
Symantec Corporation

Valid from:
1/12/2015 4:00:00 PM

Valid to:
3/13/2016 4:59:59 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 2:50:52 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:tHNn0APiD38tZ5e+G8yQiAsBVoY3+5HO6ATeUoNnEC3w7zhgeCEN0AFiPtZL:tRxiDstbe+BiAsBVq5HO6Apc6zh0EN/c

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:
7.9617

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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