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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.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.softwaresfreee.com.
Publisher:
Download Assistant  (signed and verified)

Product:
adobe-flash-player

Version:
3.0.0.130

MD5:
904021d9fb4ef8d5e1cc54996baaaab1

SHA-1:
3bd9235dba7ba214082530548b944c80ea2e2457

SHA-256:
74c165eb4325b59ba714341fa3f9cdb0a58be1c29a9d2b7f45cd488aba94d7bb

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:
11/5/2024 12:38:26 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Air Software.DownloadAssistant.Bundler (M)
16.1.27.3

File size:
1.1 MB (1,129,040 bytes)

Product version:
3.0.0.130

Copyright:
(c) Download Assistant

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
AirInstaller Download Manager

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Download Assistant

Authority:
Symantec Corporation

Valid from:
7/28/2015 1:00:00 AM

Valid to:
7/28/2016 12:59:59 AM

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:
5AB0D4FBB68E66252A764F6A8E02A8ED

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
1/30/2013 2:21:56 PM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.25

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:oxGfZcO2L3XSkz/243As1fi8H1BneFNXQQ51zWxsXe:NCO2L352dUfxU16xsXe

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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Developed / compiled with:
Microsoft Visual C++

Code size:
65.5 KB (67,072 bytes)

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

http://download.softwaresfreee.com/v2/click/bf6d29bd/?affiliate_image=http://softwaresfreee.com/presentation/assets/common/.../icon.png&d=http://toolboox.com/bin/adobe-flash-player.exe&filename=adobe-flash-player&key=a86aaf2a06ed3677942c8ee3c2996f3607742b798b6bb94c68b311b8638c7d0c&n=adobe-flash-player&product_image=http://softwaresfreee.com/presentation/assets/common/.../installer.png&sid=8756&uid=8756&uao=TW96aWxsYS81LjAgKFdpbmRvd3MgTlQgNi4xOyBXT1c2NCkgQXBwbGVXZWJLaXQvNTM3LjM2IChLSFRNTCwgbGlrZSBHZWNrbykgQ2hyb21lLzQ1LjAuMjQ1My4wIFNhZmFyaS81MzcuMzY_&scid=a0313bfc-88db-11e5-a419-04017184a501

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