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update_google_chrome.exe

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BESt install tll

This is the OutBrowse Revenyou installer which bundles offers for additional third party applications that may be unwanted and installed without consent. The application update_google_chrome.exe by BESt install tll 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 OutBrowse Revenyou installer. With this installer, users are expecting to download Google's Chrome web browser but before that occurs they may be presented with additional offers, mostly potentially unwanted software or adware.
Publisher:
BESt install tll  (signed and verified)

Product:
Setup

Version:
1.9.3.0

MD5:
16512df83671134fe35359c0501452bd

SHA-1:
915e57cc2138669d4faa564e4a590af1911218c6

SHA-256:
0f129877541bbabcd7e9dccc67faa1de0d8ae4d7510b36c4026ac30461bf164c

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.

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:
12/28/2024 8:52:49 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Outbrowse (M)
17.2.12.17

File size:
1.1 MB (1,146,832 bytes)

Product version:
1.9.3.0

Copyright:
Setup

Original file name:
Ionic.Zip-2015Mar09-225300-5a752756-41d8-4be3-b2cd-3ac3aa0e1cc1.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
OutBrowse Revenyou

Language:
Language Neutral

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
BESt install tll

Authority:
thawte, Inc.

Valid from:
3/9/2015 2:00:00 AM

Valid to:
1/28/2016 1:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=BESt install tll, O=BESt install tll, L=Dublin, S=Dublin, C=IE

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

Serial number:
47B53219F51F0C2A261EB0695E1E7E4B

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
3/10/2015 12:53:00 AM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows Console

Linker version:
8.0

.NET CLR dependent:
Yes

Entry address:
0x75F3E

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

Code size:
464 KB (475,136 bytes)

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