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vistastartmenu.exe

Vista Start menu

Dennis Nazarenko

The is the installer for the WebPick InstalleRex download manager which bundles applications with offers for additional 3rd party software, mostly unwanted adware, and may be installed without consent. The application vistastartmenu.exe, “Vista Start Menu program” by Dennis Nazarenko has been detected as adware by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. It is set to automatically start when a user logs into Windows via the current user run registry key under the display name ‘VistaStartMenu’.
Publisher:
OrdinarySoft  (signed by Dennis Nazarenko)

Product:
Vista Start menu

Description:
Vista Start Menu program

Version:
2.7.0.0

MD5:
7a89ca8b175eebfc688a1bf5954d08fe

SHA-1:
112e8b3cbcb8ff2d5d692abff10413bb062b8510

SHA-256:
780d418e326f5f52ccc065861f292ee2c23bd9da2f8c1659c73bcd95e00ef377

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:
11/17/2024 5:59:29 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.WebPick.DennisNazarenko (M)
16.2.19.17

File size:
1.6 MB (1,703,600 bytes)

Product version:
2.7

Copyright:
OrdinarySoft

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\Program Files\vista start menu\vistastartmenu.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Dennis Nazarenko

Authority:
The USERTRUST Network

Valid from:
11/2/2007 2:00:00 AM

Valid to:
11/2/2008 1:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=Dennis Nazarenko, O=Dennis Nazarenko, POBox=15A, STREET=Jovtneva 7A, L=Vishneve, S=Kievskaya, PostalCode=08132, C=UA

Issuer:
CN=UTN-USERFirst-Object, OU=http://www.usertrust.com, O=The USERTRUST Network, L=Salt Lake City, S=UT, C=US

Serial number:
00DBE65D78CE895A82ADCC70F584A6A0BB

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
6/20/1992 12:22:17 AM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.25

CTPH (ssdeep):
49152:Md9an+h9MglhX+VoDrcEQ4Dg7TRkxrcEQkQGF:Md9an+h+glXDrcEQ4M72rcEQ+F

Entry address:
0x119B44

Entry point:
55, 8B, EC, 83, C4, E8, 33, C0, 89, 45, EC, 89, 45, E8, B8, F4, 95, 51, 00, E8, 70, D5, EE, FF, 33, C0, 55, 68, 5A, 9C, 51, 00, 64, FF, 30, 64, 89, 20, E8, B9, A2, F7, FF, A1, 1C, D7, 51, 00, 8B, 00, 50, E8, EC, E2, EE, FF, 8B, 15, AC, D8, 51, 00, 89, 02, 8D, 55, E8, B8, 01, 00, 00, 00, E8, 5F, 92, EE, FF, 8B, 45, E8, 8D, 55, EC, E8, C8, 11, EF, FF, 8B, 55, EC, B8, 70, 9C, 51, 00, E8, 37, B4, EE, FF, 85, C0, 74, 34, 6A, 00, 6A, 00, A1, AC, D8, 51, 00, 8B, 00, 50, 68, FF, FF, 00, 00, E8, 75, E2, EE, FF, E8...
 
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Entropy:
6.8035

Developed / compiled with:
Microsoft Visual C++

Code size:
1.1 MB (1,150,464 bytes)

Startup File (User Run)
Registry location:
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

Name:
VistaStartMenu

Command:
"C:\Program Files\vista start menu\vistastartmenu.exe"


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