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adobe flash player setup.exe

Adobe Flash Player

Download Assistant

This is part of the Air Installer, a download manager which bundles applications with offers for additional 3rd party software, mostly unwanted adware, and may be installed with minimal consent. The application adobe flash player setup.exe by Download Assistant 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 AirInstaller Download Manager installer. It is also typically executed from an Internet Explorer cache folder. The file has been seen being downloaded from download.downtoad.com.

File name:

Publisher:

Download Assistant (signed and verified)

Product:

Adobe Flash Player

Version:

3.0.0.154

MD5:

4f79084d551b1d95ba62096aee13cebf

SHA-1:

793091bf3cd55c07fa1939ba28ea476b28228de5

SHA-256:

b2f2f9807615b0a2132b97cc238e2f256c601676b96afa20978e30a08b330fe9

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:

12/26/2024 11:50:06 AM UTC (today)

Scan engine

Detection

Engine version

Reason Heuristics

PUP.Air Software.Download.Bundler (M)

16.6.16.0

File size:

1.1 MB (1,143,520 bytes)

Product version:

3.0.0.154

File type:

Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:

AirInstaller Download Manager

Language:

Language Neutral

Common path:

C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\microsoft\windows\temporary internet files\content.ie5\{random}\adobe flash player setup.exe

Digital Signature

Signed by:

Download Assistant

Authority:

Symantec Corporation

Valid from:

3/22/2016 5:00:00 PM

Valid to:

6/22/2017 4:59:59 PM

Subject:

CN=Download Assistant, O=Download Assistant, L=Victoria, S=British Columbia, C=CA

Issuer:

CN=Symantec Class 3 SHA256 Code Signing CA, OU=Symantec Trust Network, O=Symantec Corporation, C=US

Serial number:

148B902A7D1B3F28E1F8304459D901C7

File PE Metadata

Compilation timestamp:

1/30/2013 6:21:56 AM

OS version:

5.0

OS bitness:

Win32

Subsystem:

Windows GUI

Linker version:

2.25

CTPH (ssdeep):

24576:ExGP1ZfqUG9eFH2EtU6Urp5NNIZAYOEJakQ:ptZfR2QarzkZKEJakQ

Entry address:

0x113BC

Entry point:

55, 8B, EC, 83, C4, A4, 53, 56, 57, 33, C0, 89, 45, C4, 89, 45, C0, 89, 45, A4, 89, 45, D0, 89, 45, C8, 89, 45, CC, 89, 45, D4, 89, 45, D8, 89, 45, EC, B8, 2C, 00, 41, 00, E8, E8, 51, FF, FF, 33, C0, 55, 68, 9E, 1A, 41, 00, 64, FF, 30, 64, 89, 20, 33, D2, 55, 68, 5A, 1A, 41, 00, 64, FF, 32, 64, 89, 22, A1, 48, 5B, 41, 00, E8, 16, D8, FF, FF, E8, 65, D3, FF, FF, 80, 3D, DC, 2A, 41, 00, 00, 74, 0C, E8, 2B, D9, FF, FF, 33, C0, E8, 80, 32, FF, FF, 8D, 55, EC, 33, C0, E8, E2, A3, FF, FF, 8B, 55, EC, B8, 50, 86... 
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Entropy:

6.9708

Developed / compiled with:

Microsoft Visual C++

Code size:

65.5 KB (67,072 bytes)

The file adobe flash player setup.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

http://download.downtoad.com/v2/click/f5n53siy/?d=http://cdn.downtoad.com/1downloadfiles/adobeflashplayer.exe&n=Adobe Flash Player&icon=http://www.downtoad.com/inventory/adobeflashplayer/.../aidesktop.ico&key=fb5502fcf1ef5b233614eb138ca86e3dc5940e5ba714c4532d61afa7561956c3&uid=&affiliate_image=http://www.downtoad.com/inventory/adobeflashplayer/.../installicon.png&product_image=http://www.downtoad.com/inventory/adobeflashplayer/.../installsplash.png&filename=Adobe Flash Player Setup&sid=Bing2-USA-AdobeFlashPlayer-OLDDOWN

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