avg anti-virus free.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 avg anti-virus free.exe by Eilio Developments s.l 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 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.
Publisher:
Thawte.Installer_S.L.  (signed by Eilio Developments s.l.)

Product:
Thawte manager

Description:
Installer

Version:
3.1.22.18.4

MD5:
1a24409045c8ef4349a9ea5da88f4802

SHA-1:
29547ba8de3f83d371f89d3d86f784b3706ccdc5

SHA-256:
78d14ed5f73ab10cc9a53a04eca0bced77816757783c55f69998d9ed407dbfa9

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Adware

Explanation:
Uses the Solimba installer to bundle adware offers.

Description:
This 'download manager' is also considered bundleware, a utility designed to download software (possibly legitimate or opensource) and bundle it with a number of optional offers including ad-supported utilities, toolbars, shopping comparison tools and browser extensions.

Analysis date:
12/26/2024 3:38:05 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Solimba.EilioDev.Installer (M)
16.6.22.21

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\avg anti-virus free.exe

Digital Signature
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:
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Code size:
114 KB (116,736 bytes)

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