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adobe_reader_setup.exe

Adobe Reader Installer

Secure Installer

The application adobe_reader_setup.exe, “Deploy Adobe Reader along with various offers” by Secure Installer has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat.
Publisher:
Secure Installer  (signed and verified)

Product:
Adobe Reader Installer

Description:
Deploy Adobe Reader along with various offers

Version:
11

MD5:
038fe7837ecef73b58e9b483c9c1988f

SHA-1:
8a496cc558c9290b5e0856d5e430f16a1677c498

SHA-256:
a69aef919710de3c9456378491214e59169c63eace1763963c266df08ee8810e

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

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.

Analysis date:
12/25/2024 12:58:02 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.installCore (M)
17.2.25.10

File size:
1.6 MB (1,630,120 bytes)

Product version:
11

Copyright:
©DownloadZone

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
English (United States)

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Secure Installer

Authority:
COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:
9/25/2012 5:30:00 AM

Valid to:
9/26/2013 5:29:59 AM

Subject:
CN=Secure Installer, O=Secure Installer, STREET=720 Market Street, STREET=5th floor, L=San Francisco, S=CA, PostalCode=94102, C=US

Issuer:
CN=COMODO Code Signing CA 2, O=COMODO CA Limited, L=Salford, S=Greater Manchester, C=GB

Serial number:
00C3507C1ADDE6B4C52E5426990F85CA2B

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
7/20/2013 2:42:49 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.25

Entry address:
0x1053F0

Entry point:
55, 8B, EC, 83, C4, F0, B8, 14, 31, 50, 00, E8, E4, 21, F0, FF, 8B, 0D, 64, F5, 50, 00, 8B, 09, B2, 01, A1, DC, 2C, 4C, 00, E8, 28, 96, F5, FF, 8B, 15, 58, F6, 50, 00, 89, 02, A1, 64, F5, 50, 00, 8B, 00, E8, 2C, 2E, F6, FF, A1, 64, F5, 50, 00, 8B, 00, B2, 01, E8, C6, 4C, F6, FF, 8B, 0D, 4C, F3, 50, 00, A1, 64, F5, 50, 00, 8B, 00, 8B, 15, 48, 72, 4F, 00, E8, 1E, 2E, F6, FF, A1, 64, F5, 50, 00, 8B, 00, E8, 4A, 2F, F6, FF, E8, 39, FB, EF, FF, 90, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00...
 
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Entropy:
7.0897

Developed / compiled with:
Microsoft Visual C++

Code size:
1 MB (1,064,448 bytes)

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