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towelroot.exe

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StarT plAYIng

This is the OutBrowse Revenyou installer which bundles offers for additional third party applications that may be unwanted and installed without consent. The application towelroot.exe by StarT plAYIng has been detected as adware by 26 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the OutBrowse Revenyou installer. According to AVG, this software downloads additional adware offers during setup. The file has been seen being downloaded from get2.down1227tech.info.
Publisher:
StarT plAYIng  (signed and verified)

Product:
File

Version:
1.9.3.0

MD5:
244cc0f58c47becbbaee5df3a634aa65

SHA-1:
5176b720edb17ea2dcd8ff1d2c8f243477a6e758

SHA-256:
2387070decfd598b6f3e409632c4bf0dba2dbd934de6aee08a68064713a876ea

Scanner detections:
26 / 68

Status:
Adware

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

Description:
This is an installer which may bundle legitimate applications with offers for additional 3rd-party applications that may be unwanted by the user. While the installer contains an 'opt-out' feature this is not set be defult and is usually overlooked.

Analysis date:
11/2/2024 11:18:51 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Application.Bundler.Outbrowse.BE
5639840

Agnitum Outpost
PUA.OutBrowse
7.1.1

AhnLab V3 Security
PUP/Win32.OutBrowse
2015.06.03

Avira AntiVirus
PUA/Outbrowse.Gen
8.3.1.6

Arcabit
Application.Bundler.Outbrowse.BE
1.0.0.425

AVG
Potentially harmful program Downloader.GKP
2014.0.4311

Bitdefender
Application.Bundler.Outbrowse.BE
1.0.20.770

Bkav FE
W32.HfsAdware
1.3.0.6379

Dr.Web
Trojan.OutBrowse.643
9.0.1.05190

Emsisoft Anti-Malware
Application.Bundler.Outbrowse.BE
10.0.0.5366

ESET NOD32
Win32/OutBrowse.CB potentially unwanted application
7.0.302.0

Fortinet FortiGate
Riskware/OutBrowse
6/3/2015

F-Secure
Riskware.Application.Bundler.Outbrowse
5.14.151

G Data
Application.Bundler.Outbrowse.BE
15.6.25

IKARUS anti.virus
PUA.OutBrowse
t3scan.1.9.3.0

K7 AntiVirus
Unwanted-Program
13.204.16124

McAfee
Program.Adware-OutBrowse.g
18.0.204.0

MicroWorld eScan
Application.Bundler.Outbrowse.BE
16.0.0.462

NANO AntiVirus
Trojan.Win32.OutBrowse.dseirt
0.30.24.1636

Norman
Application.Bundler.Outbrowse.BE
02.06.2015 14:23:46

Quick Heal
PUA.OutBrowse.A
6.15.14.00

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Outbrowse.Bundler
15.6.3.12

SUPERAntiSpyware
Adware.OutBrowse/Variant
9836

Trend Micro House Call
TROJ_GE.29DEB6D1
7.2.154

Vba32 AntiVirus
AdWare.OutBrowse
3.12.26.4

VIPRE Antivirus
Threat.4150696
40786

File size:
1.2 MB (1,223,120 bytes)

Product version:
1.9.3.0

Copyright:
File

Original file name:
Ionic.Zip-2015May17-234147-d508d294-1fae-4da6-9ac9-dd845f49bbae.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
OutBrowse Revenyou

Language:
Language Neutral

Digital Signature
Signed by:
StarT plAYIng

Authority:
thawte, Inc.

Valid from:
5/10/2015 8:00:00 PM

Valid to:
12/11/2015 6:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=StarT plAYIng, O=StarT plAYIng, L=Dublin, S=Dublin, C=IE

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

Serial number:
612E4A7AD8DFD7F5EA40F14838B39F75

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
5/17/2015 7:41:48 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows Console

Linker version:
8.0

.NET CLR dependent:
Yes

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:0bSaE4mvt/4jTKQNvAwqe1RBM1HieFjg0zxIylzz28zED7v2yZA0HZ:0bSv4mvevKYvIexMweBg0zxIGzzdO2yD

Entry address:
0x75F3E

Entry point:
FF, 25, 00, 20, 40, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00...
 
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Entropy:
7.6126

Developed / compiled with:
Microsoft Visual C# / Basic .NET

Code size:
464 KB (475,136 bytes)

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

http://get2.down1227tech.info/.../1431906104/1431906104?53677848404YmJuKi83bDUuMy4zI142Ky8uLC8maDgvMC0uLSJmOTEiYHVfbmtkOWBwdGxuIi1aHipiHS5mcGp0X2VrZ2tsKmNraCIsX21qKllsayJhZmZeZ1lpXTl0a3JiZmtoZ3AebHJrX3JdbWdZaV05MmBqdGhlaFlgciJkdWleZ2JcZl1lYT1wanRfZWtna2wiaV9qazcrH3JlaDky

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