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adobe_flash_setup.exe

Application

OOO Adverts Design

The installer utilizes the installCore download manager which may bundle additional offers for various ad-supported toolbars, extensions and utilities. The application adobe_flash_setup.exe, “Application Setup ” by OOO Adverts Design 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. The file has been seen being downloaded from updatehere.theupdateschecker.org.
Publisher:
Installer Web software   (signed by OOO Adverts Design)

Product:
Application

Description:
Application Setup

Version:
1.2.5.5

MD5:
1fbd5ff2a859741fbd28c20db9c9583b

SHA-1:
6958539b13f2f9c6a3993254364cdc0bfc62cfa8

SHA-256:
66991a088229259a66cfb50fe3245d9989b0bb3446f403acdbd0c69e8906cb52

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:
12/25/2024 7:47:20 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.installCore (M)
16.7.27.13

File size:
782.6 KB (801,416 bytes)

Product version:
3.1.7

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
installCore (using Inno Setup)

Language:
Language Neutral

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\adobe_flash_setup.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
OOO Adverts Design

Authority:
COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:
3/15/2015 5:00:00 PM

Valid to:
3/15/2016 4:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=OOO Adverts Design, O=OOO Adverts Design, STREET=Ulitsa Borodinskaya 1-ia 19, L=Moscow, S=Moscow, PostalCode=121248, C=RU

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

Serial number:
213B710FCEE68D90F56A8F33AC6451CD

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
6/19/1992 3:22:17 PM

OS version:
1.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.25

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:T0xpymbFzLmbeAdZCEhKTxyYkqPHMtmElyt452aBGjKwCxVCeeRlh1emn/ch:T0xMWX2dZCI34ZHU8j1emnk

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...
 
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Entropy:
7.6740

Packer / compiler:
Inno Setup v5.x - Installer Maker

Code size:
37 KB (37,888 bytes)

The file adobe_flash_setup.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

http://updatehere.theupdateschecker.org/dl.php?conversion_id=14276113368080&app_id=4&lp_id=554&v=ico&stub_id=155&v_id=BGA39scoZ2m3Yw2wE24X3ZXRGdGJL4BIh6HLGpsqyXw=&dist_id=652&channel=pic_4&s1=20Q6qP0wlhL3DHag1UQAUA1yC6Vg000.&s2=561741

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