steam.exe

Salyutem Plyus LLC

This is the OutBrowse Revenyou installer which bundles offers for additional third party applications that may be unwanted and installed without consent. The application steam.exe by Salyutem Plyus has been detected as adware by 7 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the OutBrowse Revenyou installer. The setup routine uses the RevenYou.Com Pay Per Install platform (OutBrowse) which bundles additional software offers inclduing toolbars, extensions, PC utilities as well as other PUPs.
Publisher:
Salyutem Plyus LLC  (signed and verified)

MD5:
0017d4ab5943d95fdfb209dc07f8a086

SHA-1:
87f420321f6876ebfc1f1336b22585d2207b21ec

SHA-256:
ad1cb3815afa2976461d44106ceddcf1e7ffbee0aa7a860d1f9c16f9b9a845ca

Scanner detections:
7 / 68

Status:
Adware

Explanation:
Bundles additional adware offers during download and installation using the OutBrowse installer.

Description:
This is also known as bundleware, or downloadware, which is an downloader designed to simply deliver ad-supported offers in the setup routine of an otherwise legitimate software.

Analysis date:
11/30/2024 7:55:07 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

AhnLab V3 Security
PUP/Win32.OutBrowse
2014.12.27

Avira AntiVirus
APPL/Outbrowse.Gen
7.11.198.40

Dr.Web
Trojan.OutBrowse.55
9.0.1.05190

IKARUS anti.virus
Trojan-Clicker.Win32.Agent
t3scan.1.8.5.0

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.OutBrowse
v2014.12.27.02

Reason Heuristics
PUP.SalyutemPlyus.F
15.1.4.13

Trend Micro House Call
Suspici.3E5BCE57
7.2.361

File size:
574.3 KB (588,112 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
OutBrowse Revenyou (using Nullsoft Install System)

Language:
Language Neutral

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

Digital Signature
Authority:
thawte, Inc.

Valid from:
12/14/2014 6:00:00 PM

Valid to:
12/15/2015 5:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Salyutem Plyus LLC, O=Salyutem Plyus LLC, L=Kharkiv, S=Arkansas, C=UA

Issuer:
CN=thawte SHA256 Code Signing CA, O="thawte, Inc.", C=US

Serial number:
6B6BB9E1A48F64F47503D8DCF6A5D0D3

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
12/5/2009 4:50:52 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:A9kePEwHLfq6AnvbHCtQDDZRj9gEoug4sBQZXyq33xSYIXQOqD:A94M/AvbHCtsxgIgkCqZv/

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:
7.9742

Packer / compiler:
Nullsoft install system v2.x

Code size:
23.5 KB (24,064 bytes)

The file steam.exe has been seen being distributed by the following 3 URLs.

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