» adobe_flash_player.exe
Overview
Analysis
File Details

adobe_flash_player.exe

Program

OOO Next Stars Group

The installer utilizes the installCore download manager which may bundle additional offers for various ad-supported toolbars, extensions and utilities. The application adobe_flash_player.exe, “Program Setup ” by OOO Next Stars Group 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 installCore installer.

File name:

Publisher:

Software (signed by OOO Next Stars Group)

Product:

Program

Description:

Program Setup

MD5:

2c7367186658e95e21095f5a53399645

SHA-1:

eaad1e435b05849c18cad6a65f7266b198620d73

SHA-256:

7f3610d6b09ced701e8ffe91c8578c322df82fd5cf3028406e2a4f2c52634bc8

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 12:43:46 AM UTC (today)

Scan engine

Detection

Engine version

Reason Heuristics

PUP.installCore (M)

16.12.6.8

File size:

805.7 KB (825,080 bytes)

Product version:

4.1

Software Web

File type:

Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:

installCore (using Inno Setup)

Common path:

C:\users\{user}\downloads\adobe_flash_player.exe

Digital Signature

Signed by:

OOO Next Stars Group

Authority:

COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:

1/20/2015 9:00:00 AM

Valid to:

1/21/2016 8:59:59 AM

Subject:

CN=OOO Next Stars Group, OU=OOO Next Stars Group - Software, O=OOO Next Stars Group, STREET=SPIRIDONOVKA 17 STR.11, L=Moscow, S=Moscow, PostalCode=123001, C=RU

Issuer:

CN=COMODO RSA Code Signing CA, O=COMODO CA Limited, L=Salford, S=Greater Manchester, C=GB

Serial number:

35017D6EC0854401DF3143C4282B5F73

File PE Metadata

Compilation timestamp:

6/20/1992 7:22:17 AM

OS version:

1.0

OS bitness:

Win32

Subsystem:

Windows GUI

Linker version:

2.25

CTPH (ssdeep):

24576:LBcK1hBsAzcKBxzlddMICFzkPDFaTg8DPI+:La8hOArddazkLR8

Entry address:

0x9C40

Entry point:

55, 8B, EC, 83, C4, C4, 53, 56, 57, 33, C0, 89, 45, F0, 89, 45, DC, E8, 86, 94, FF, FF, E8, 8D, A6, FF, FF, E8, 1C, A9, FF, FF, E8, 53, C9, FF, FF, E8, 9A, C9, FF, FF, E8, C9, F2, FF, FF, E8, 30, F4, FF, FF, 33, C0, 55, 68, FC, A2, 40, 00, 64, FF, 30, 64, 89, 20, 33, D2, 55, 68, C5, A2, 40, 00, 64, FF, 32, 64, 89, 22, A1, 14, C0, 40, 00, E8, 96, FE, FF, FF, E8, C9, FA, FF, FF, 8D, 55, F0, 33, C0, E8, 83, CF, FF, FF, 8B, 55, F0, B8, 24, CE, 40, 00, E8, 32, 95, FF, FF, 6A, 02, 6A, 00, 6A, 01, 8B, 0D, 24, CE... 
[+]

Entropy:

7.8093

Packer / compiler:

Inno Setup v5.x - Installer Maker

Code size:

37 KB (37,888 bytes)

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