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CLick trust opt

This is the OutBrowse Revenyou installer which bundles offers for additional third party applications that may be unwanted and installed without consent. The application vlc player.exe by CLick trust opt 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 the VideoLAN VLC media player but before that occurs they may be presented with additional offers, mostly potentially unwanted software or adware.
Publisher:
CLick trust opt  (signed and verified)

Product:
Setup

Version:
1.9.3.0

MD5:
a5af0dddb26580aa7f4a342b0322d3b2

SHA-1:
b34f510d6627f582797b08edaa99892aee8fc7fe

SHA-256:
b4e5b138c6187efda23e8bc2a210862584ee04bd0691654c1bed219e43a62107

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:
12/24/2024 5:11:42 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Outbrowse (M)
16.11.5.1

File size:
1.1 MB (1,146,680 bytes)

Product version:
1.9.3.0

Copyright:
Setup

Original file name:
Ionic.Zip-2015Mar03-201608-2fa97036-82d1-4bc9-9a06-b657a8b51e69.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
OutBrowse Revenyou

Language:
Language Neutral

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
CLick trust opt

Authority:
thawte, Inc.

Valid from:
3/1/2015 1:00:00 AM

Valid to:
1/28/2016 12:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=CLick trust opt, O=CLick trust opt, L=Dublin, S=Dublin, C=IE

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

Serial number:
40DF23B59F49BD8A421754940F049463

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
3/3/2015 9:16:08 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows Console

Linker version:
8.0

.NET CLR dependent:
Yes

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:nbSaE4mvt/SY+OFIUQMaGiTNZzeagOnAS4jmPE1rl9uWY6i7lV0:nbSv4mvgFNvT2a79c3yTly

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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