minecraft.exe

Salyutem Plyus LLC

This is the OutBrowse Revenyou installer which bundles offers for additional third party applications that may be unwanted and installed without consent. The application minecraft.exe by Salyutem Plyus has been detected as adware by 29 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the OutBrowse Revenyou installer. This program installs potentially unwanted software on your PC at the same time as the software you are trying to install, without adequate consent. The installer is marketed through download protals and search ads as Minecraft but will also install additional software offers which include adware, PUPs and browser toolbars.
Publisher:
Salyutem Plyus LLC  (signed and verified)

MD5:
1ef7eb9bf3a40244c1d526a97499e2a1

SHA-1:
f144c9bb5aab29807d4c141c6b5c70b3e4d9ed31

SHA-256:
f32bfc151765cb84f35aa89e903ec64a998ec8e8fca6aef08bef2a350753fb4e

Scanner detections:
29 / 68

Status:
Adware

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

Description:
This 'download manager' is also considered bundleware, a utility designed to download software (possibly legitimate or opensource) and bundle it with a number of optional offers including ad-supported utilities, toolbars, shopping comparison tools and browser extensions.

Analysis date:
11/1/2024 1:34:32 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
MemScan:Application.Bundler.Outbrowse.AN
683

Agnitum Outpost
PUA.OutBrowse
7.1.1

AhnLab V3 Security
PUP/Win32.OutBrowse
2015.01.04

Avira AntiVirus
APPL/Outbrowse.Gen
7.11.199.92

avast!
Win32:OutBrowse-CA [PUP]
2014.9-150323

AVG
Generic
2016.0.3161

Baidu Antivirus
PUA.Win32.OutBrowse
4.0.3.15323

Bitdefender
MemScan:Application.Bundler.Outbrowse.AN
1.0.20.410

Bkav FE
W32.HfsAdware
1.3.0.6379

Comodo Security
Application.Win32.OutBrowse.MQPC
21496

Dr.Web
Trojan.OutBrowse.55
9.0.1.082

ESET NOD32
Win32/OutBrowse.BQ (variant)
9.10960

Fortinet FortiGate
Riskware/OutBrowse
3/23/2015

F-Secure
MemScan:Application.Bundler.Outbrowse
11.2015-23-03_2

G Data
MemScan:Application.Bundler.Outbrowse.AN
15.3.25

herdProtect (fuzzy)
2015.6.28.21

K7 AntiVirus
Unwanted-Program
13.202.15341

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.OutBrowse
v2015.03.23.09

McAfee
Adware-OutBrowse.d
5600.6817

MicroWorld eScan
MemScan:Application.Bundler.Outbrowse.AN
16.0.0.246

NANO AntiVirus
Trojan.Win32.OutBrowse.dlwssj
0.30.8.659

Panda Antivirus
Trj/CI.A
15.03.23.09

Qihoo 360 Security
HEUR/QVM42.0.Malware.Gen
1.0.0.1015

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Bundler.Outbrowse
15.3.23.21

Sophos
OutBrowse Revenyou
4.98

Trend Micro House Call
Suspici.202D3B0F
7.2.179

Vba32 AntiVirus
Downloader.OutBrowse
3.12.26.3

VIPRE Antivirus
Trojan.Win32.Generic.pak!cobra
36348

ViRobot
Trojan.Win32.A.Inject.595128[h]
2014.3.20.0

File size:
581.2 KB (595,128 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
OutBrowse Revenyou (using Nullsoft Install System)

Language:
Language Neutral

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

Digital Signature
Authority:
thawte, Inc.

Valid from:
12/14/2014 6:00:00 PM

Valid to:
12/15/2015 5:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Salyutem Plyus LLC, O=Salyutem Plyus LLC, L=Kharkiv, S=Arkansas, C=UA

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

Serial number:
6B6BB9E1A48F64F47503D8DCF6A5D0D3

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
12/5/2009 4:50:52 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:pHOG4op5viQukS14RWTxiBi4FtD2PSGTl+S6aF1NSHew321N02:pHOrop5U14RvfQx+S6aF3AewG7

Entry address:
0x30FA

Entry point:
81, EC, 80, 01, 00, 00, 53, 55, 56, 33, DB, 57, 89, 5C, 24, 18, C7, 44, 24, 10, 60, 91, 40, 00, 33, F6, C6, 44, 24, 14, 20, FF, 15, 30, 70, 40, 00, 68, 01, 80, 00, 00, FF, 15, B0, 70, 40, 00, 53, FF, 15, 7C, 72, 40, 00, 6A, 08, A3, 18, EC, 42, 00, E8, F1, 2B, 00, 00, A3, 64, EB, 42, 00, 53, 8D, 44, 24, 34, 68, 60, 01, 00, 00, 50, 53, 68, 98, 8F, 42, 00, FF, 15, 58, 71, 40, 00, 68, 54, 91, 40, 00, 68, 60, E3, 42, 00, E8, A4, 28, 00, 00, FF, 15, AC, 70, 40, 00, BF, 00, 40, 43, 00, 50, 57, E8, 92, 28, 00, 00...
 
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Entropy:
7.9741

Packer / compiler:
Nullsoft install system v2.x

Code size:
23.5 KB (24,064 bytes)

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