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updater26766.exe

Discount Buddy

Innovative Apps

This is part of a distribution package that is classified as adware distributed by 50onRed. This adware is used to interact with the installed web browsers and inject ads and modify the default search and homepages. The application updater26766.exe, “Discount Buddy exe” by Innovative Apps has been detected as adware by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. It runs as a scheduled task under the Windows Task Scheduler triggered by a time event.
Publisher:
Innovative Apps  (signed and verified)

Product:
Discount Buddy

Description:
Discount Buddy exe

Version:
1000.1000.1000.1000

MD5:
f30adc1047b9377099bc8e04060eeb3b

SHA-1:
3895a6f3d6d7c1036838947ea8ae266bea765baf

SHA-256:
024a11c39200cce9640706cdf5dae9f358ea166f59ed673d70625f0bd3f7c905

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:
12/23/2024 11:47:15 PM UTC  (a few moments ago)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.50OnRed (M)
17.2.23.3

File size:
205.4 KB (210,312 bytes)

Product version:
1000.1000.1000.1000

Copyright:
Copyright 2011

Original file name:
Discount Buddy.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\updater26766\updater26766.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Innovative Apps

Authority:
Thawte, Inc.

Valid from:
1/8/2013 4:00:00 PM

Valid to:
1/9/2014 3:59:59 PM

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

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

Serial number:
5419E32FDAD7A6E5666A35066C5EAAC5

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
1/15/2013 5:01:55 AM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
10.0

Entry address:
0x15B31

Entry point:
E8, 95, 83, 00, 00, E9, 89, FE, FF, FF, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 8B, 45, 08, 85, C0, 74, 12, 83, E8, 08, 81, 38, DD, DD, 00, 00, 75, 07, 50, E8, 22, E2, FF, FF, 59, 5D, C3, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 83, EC, 10, A1, 20, 26, 43, 00, 33, C5, 89, 45, FC, 8B, 55, 18, 53, 33, DB, 56, 57, 3B, D3, 7E, 1F, 8B, 45, 14, 8B, CA, 49, 38, 18, 74, 08, 40, 3B, CB, 75, F6, 83, C9, FF, 8B, C2, 2B, C1, 48, 3B, C2, 7D, 01, 40, 89, 45, 18, 89, 5D, F8, 39, 5D, 24, 75, 0B, 8B, 45, 08, 8B, 00, 8B, 40, 04, 89, 45, 24, 8B, 35, 6C, 90, 42, 00...
 
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Entropy:
6.4686

Code size:
158 KB (161,792 bytes)

Scheduled Task
Task name:
Updater26766.exe

Trigger:
Time


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