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avast! free antivirus.exe

Thawte manager

Eilio Developments s.l.

This belongs to a Solimba product that may be bundled with additional PUPs or may be part of an ad-supported software program. The application avast! free antivirus.exe by Eilio Developments s.l has been detected as adware by 36 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the Solimba DownloadMR installer. It uses the Solimba download manager to push adware offers during the download and setup process. Bundled adware includes search and shopping web browser toolbars. The file has been seen being downloaded from dl.fasterdownfiles.com.
Publisher:
Thawte.Installer_S.L.  (signed by Eilio Developments s.l.)

Product:
Thawte manager

Description:
Installer

Version:
3.1.22.18.4

MD5:
093e2b5f16e61e1b597671f1c4401422

SHA-1:
171df1e2d92efbe6e1bfc5f19da7844d7f2aed1e

SHA-256:
64e427a3a635c6fc73c74bc4bc36920438bbd9107993d83e64e7a5b82f68c679

Scanner detections:
36 / 68

Status:
Adware

Explanation:
Uses the Solimba installer to bundle adware offers.

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 3:20:48 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler.Kazy.132995
865

Agnitum Outpost
PUA.Solimba
7.1.1

AhnLab V3 Security
PUP/Win32.Solimba
2014.09.25

Avira AntiVirus
APPL/Firseria.Gen8
7.11.173.38

AVG
Generic
2015.0.3343

Baidu Antivirus
Adware.MSIL.Solimba
4.0.3.14101

Bitdefender
Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler.Kazy.132995
1.0.20.1325

Clam AntiVirus
Win.Trojan.Morstar-21
0.98/19418

Comodo Security
Application.Win32.Solimba.LSW
19607

Dr.Web
Trojan.DownLoader11.24441
9.0.1.0265

Emsisoft Anti-Malware
Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler.Kazy.132995
8.14.09.22.05

ESET NOD32
MSIL/Solimba.AH potentially unwanted application
8.7.0.302.0

Fortinet FortiGate
Riskware/Morstar
10/1/2014

F-Prot
W32/A-a79dd9a7
v6.4.7.1.166

F-Secure
Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler
11.2014-22-09_2

G Data
Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler.Kazy.132995
14.9.24

herdProtect (fuzzy)
variant of file_installer.exe (Adware)
2014.12.4.23

K7 AntiVirus
Unwanted-Program
13.183.13463

Kaspersky
not-a-virus:Downloader.Win32.Morstar
14.0.0.3211

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.Solimba
v2014.09.22.05

McAfee
Artemis!324D7EA2AF93
5600.6991

MicroWorld eScan
Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler.Kazy.132995
15.0.0.795

NANO AntiVirus
Trojan.Win32.Morstar.dfgpsr
0.28.2.62151

nProtect
Trojan.Generic.11823520
14.09.28.01

Panda Antivirus
Trj/CI.A
14.09.22.05

Qihoo 360 Security
Win32/Application.73f
1.0.0.1015

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Installer.EilioDevelopmentssl.V
14.10.1.11

Sophos
Solimba Installer
4.98

Trend Micro House Call
TROJ_GEN.F0C2H00IM14
7.2.274

Vba32 AntiVirus
Downware.Morstar
3.12.26.3

VIPRE Antivirus
Threat.4150696
33120

Zillya! Antivirus
Downloader.Morstar.Win32.84
2.0.0.1929

File size:
517.7 KB (530,136 bytes)

Product version:
3.1.22

Copyright:
copyright © 2014

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
Solimba DownloadMR

Language:
Language Neutral

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\avast! free antivirus.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Eilio Developments s.l.

Authority:
Thawte, Inc.

Valid from:
7/24/2014 9:00:00 PM

Valid to:
7/24/2016 8:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Eilio Developments s.l., O=Eilio Developments s.l., L=Barcelona, S=Barcelona, C=ES

Issuer:
CN=Thawte Code Signing CA - G2, O="Thawte, Inc.", C=US

Serial number:
62A9979715091C35A10D5CC1298205DA

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
9/18/2014 5:11:59 AM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
12.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:rmvQlk6OnF+T6zgSZQKxKFKAdK3QFvEqZ0YHw4GiYJBDhrCVi/:rmvQC5+TlSZQkENdK3QyqZ0YHNGlZsi/

Entry address:
0xDFEC

Entry point:
E8, AE, 6C, 00, 00, E9, 00, 00, 00, 00, 6A, 14, 68, 48, 70, 42, 00, E8, FE, 15, 00, 00, E8, 7F, 6E, 00, 00, 0F, B7, F0, 6A, 02, E8, 41, 6C, 00, 00, 59, B8, 4D, 5A, 00, 00, 66, 39, 05, 00, 00, 40, 00, 74, 04, 33, DB, EB, 33, A1, 3C, 00, 40, 00, 81, B8, 00, 00, 40, 00, 50, 45, 00, 00, 75, EB, B9, 0B, 01, 00, 00, 66, 39, 88, 18, 00, 40, 00, 75, DD, 33, DB, 83, B8, 74, 00, 40, 00, 0E, 76, 09, 39, 98, E8, 00, 40, 00, 0F, 95, C3, 89, 5D, E4, E8, 0A, 65, 00, 00, 85, C0, 75, 08, 6A, 1C, E8, DC, 00, 00, 00, 59, E8...
 
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Code size:
114 KB (116,736 bytes)

The file avast! free antivirus.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

http://dl.fasterdownfiles.com/n/3.1.22.18.4/.../Avast! Free Antivirus.exe

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