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shopping-sidekick.exe

Excellent Apps

This is the installer application for a 50onRed advertising supported software package (displays ads in the browser and may hijack the home and search pages of the web browser). The application shopping-sidekick.exe by Excellent Apps 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 Nullsoft Install System installer. It is also typically executed from the user's temporary directory.
Publisher:
Excellent Apps  (signed and verified)

MD5:
167c6d2e06af91509a1f5007bb16ba2a

SHA-1:
f471f03ba47afcb21e45732a81a0ae55f54217d1

SHA-256:
c13aecc16d53bba0e682c09e1cdf248e6d5e4c9ab4313841f7e7c558022f373a

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:
5/17/2024 2:12:28 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.50OnRed (M)
16.10.25.1

File size:
2.3 MB (2,437,752 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
Nullsoft Install System

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\temp\shopping-sidekick.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Excellent Apps

Authority:
Thawte, Inc.

Valid from:
8/28/2012 5:00:00 PM

Valid to:
8/29/2013 4:59:59 PM

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

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

Serial number:
6D2FB6375D3A8788B735FEDBD060732B

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
1/5/2010 5:09:32 AM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.56

CTPH (ssdeep):
49152:NobSTl7IAUTg2LiNoJkDX1SUTVKB39e4XPrBvy7+7PdUtf0E0JfHnqQtDr:0STl7IAQg22hDX88VKBnXDEqPa7GfHqq

Entry address:
0x4044

Entry point:
55, 89, E5, 57, 56, 53, 81, EC, AC, 01, 00, 00, E8, 97, 52, 00, 00, C7, 04, 24, 01, 80, 00, 00, E8, 43, 4F, 00, 00, 56, C7, 04, 24, 00, 00, 00, 00, E8, A6, 52, 00, 00, A3, 88, 5C, 42, 00, 53, C7, 04, 24, 08, 00, 00, 00, E8, 26, 32, 00, 00, A3, 38, 5D, 42, 00, 8D, 85, 84, FE, FF, FF, 51, C7, 44, 24, 10, 00, 00, 00, 00, C7, 44, 24, 0C, 60, 01, 00, 00, 89, 44, 24, 08, C7, 44, 24, 04, 00, 00, 00, 00, C7, 04, 24, A4, B2, 40, 00, E8, D0, 51, 00, 00, 83, EC, 14, C7, 44, 24, 04, A5, B2, 40, 00, C7, 04, 24, 68, 5D...
 
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Entropy:
7.9882  (probably packed)

Code size:
33 KB (33,792 bytes)

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