supreme_savings_helper.exe

Smart Apps

This is the installer application for a 50onRed advertising supported software package (displays ads in the browser and may hijack the home and search pages of the web browser). The application supreme_savings_helper.exe by Smart Apps 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 Nullsoft Install System installer. It is also typically executed from an Internet Explorer cache folder. The file has been seen being downloaded from www.updatesrv.com.
Publisher:
Smart Apps  (signed and verified)

MD5:
e79c3faf6a97775dab7bf4b6b6073aeb

SHA-1:
7e5034f6a7742e47c98f03eae1c80f7efc14b829

SHA-256:
3697943909b6ba2ffa3981447600ecc9af40867a00cfba57fb348bddf9e2b768

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:
1/14/2025 8:56:41 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.50OnRed.SmartApps.Installer (M)
16.2.26.5

File size:
481.9 KB (493,504 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
Nullsoft Install System

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:

Authority:
Thawte, Inc.

Valid from:
3/25/2013 12:00:00 AM

Valid to:
3/25/2014 11:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Smart Apps, O=Smart Apps, L=Philadelphia, S=Pennsylvania, C=US

Issuer:
CN=Thawte Code Signing CA - G2, O="Thawte, Inc.", C=US

Serial number:
7CAFCF7841E5BDDF79F61691D678D0EC

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
2/19/2012 3:01:49 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.22

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:mtobwvxWiqay3B6Spb3gcTPuby4pQDSn6/NidmO6OYS:mtz5pegCklqDDiVvYS

Entry address:
0x4327

Entry point:
55, 89, E5, 57, 56, 53, 81, EC, AC, 01, 00, 00, FF, 15, 74, 93, 42, 00, C7, 04, 24, 01, 80, 00, 00, FF, 15, 58, 94, 42, 00, 53, C7, 04, 24, 00, 00, 00, 00, FF, 15, 98, 94, 42, 00, 56, A3, 40, 7B, 42, 00, C7, 04, 24, 08, 00, 00, 00, E8, 8D, 3B, 00, 00, A3, 9C, 7B, 42, 00, 8D, 85, 84, FE, FF, FF, 57, C7, 44, 24, 10, 00, 00, 00, 00, C7, 44, 24, 0C, 60, 01, 00, 00, 89, 44, 24, 08, C7, 44, 24, 04, 00, 00, 00, 00, C7, 04, 24, 01, B3, 40, 00, FF, 15, AC, 94, 42, 00, 83, EC, 14, C7, 44, 24, 04, 02, B3, 40, 00, C7...
 
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Entropy:
7.7989  (probably packed)

Code size:
34.5 KB (35,328 bytes)

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

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