{"id":1676,"date":"2014-09-03T07:05:04","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T07:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/?p=1676"},"modified":"2018-05-29T12:02:02","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T12:02:02","slug":"outbrowse-ltd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/outbrowse-ltd\/","title":{"rendered":"OUTbrowse Ltd &#8211; 13% Detection rate: Trojan.Win32.OutBrowse and Adware.Win32.OutBrowse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve been following me for the last months you know that I&#8217;ve been examining many software publishers that put a digital signature on their downloads. Yesterday I found another publisher called\u00a0<strong>OUTbrowse Ltd<\/strong>. This is how it appears when running the file:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/outbrowse-ltd.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1678\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/outbrowse-ltd.png\" alt=\"outbrowse ltd\" width=\"475\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/outbrowse-ltd.png 475w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/outbrowse-ltd-300x168.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To get more details on the publisher, you can view the certificate by right-clicking on the file, and looking under the Digital Signatures tab:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/outbrowse-ltd-cert.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1679 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/outbrowse-ltd-cert.png\" alt=\"outbrowse ltd Digital Signature\" width=\"496\" height=\"521\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/outbrowse-ltd-cert.png 496w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/outbrowse-ltd-cert-285x300.png 285w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 496px) 100vw, 496px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to the certificate information, <strong>OUTbrowse Ltd<\/strong> appears to be located in Israel. The certificate is about two weeks old.<\/p>\n<p>When running the OUTbrowse file, it displayed a link to the OUTbrowse Terms and Conditions, which were located on <strong>www.mixi.dj<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/outbrowse-web-site.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1680 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/outbrowse-web-site.png\" alt=\"outbrowse web site - www.mixi.dj\" width=\"622\" height=\"62\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/outbrowse-web-site.png 622w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/outbrowse-web-site-300x29.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 622px) 100vw, 622px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, why did I put up this blog post? Well, the thing is that the <strong>OUTbrowse file is detected<\/strong> by some anti-virus programs, according to VirusTotal:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/outbrowse.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1677 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/outbrowse.png\" alt=\"OUTBrowse virus total report - 7\/54\" width=\"934\" height=\"567\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/outbrowse.png 934w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/outbrowse-300x182.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 934px) 100vw, 934px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>PUP.Optional.OutBrowse<\/strong>, <strong>Trojan.Win32.OutBrowse<\/strong> and <strong>Adware.Win32.OutBrowse<\/strong> are a few of the detection names. The detection rate is 7\/54, that is 13%.<\/p>\n<p>Hope this blog post helped you avoid some unwanted software on your machine.<\/p>\n<p>Did you also find an <strong>OUTbrowse<\/strong> file? Do you remember the download link? Please post it in the comments below and I&#8217;ll upload it to VirusTotal to see if that one is also detected.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve been following me for the last months you know that I&#8217;ve been examining many software publishers that put a digital signature on their downloads. Yesterday I found another publisher called\u00a0OUTbrowse Ltd. This is how it appears when running the file: &nbsp; To get more details on the publisher, you can view the certificate &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/outbrowse-ltd\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">OUTbrowse Ltd &#8211; 13% Detection rate: Trojan.Win32.OutBrowse and Adware.Win32.OutBrowse<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,54],"tags":[163,161,162],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1676"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1682,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676\/revisions\/1682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}