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avg-free-antivirus.exe

AVG Free Antivirus

Air Software

This is part of the Air Installer, a download manager which bundles applications with offers for additional 3rd party software, mostly unwanted adware, and may be installed with minimal consent. The application avg-free-antivirus.exe, “AVG Free Antivirus ” by Air Software 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 AirInstaller Download Manager installer. The file has been seen being downloaded from files.installs.co.

File name:

Publisher:

AirInstaller (signed by Air Software)

Product:

AVG Free Antivirus

Description:

AVG Free Antivirus

Version:

2.0.4.87

MD5:

69d8261431a54f6c869dde12f15e746a

SHA-1:

15a57fdf283eadfd65a9cdd118922e7eceb8606e

SHA-256:

e54142da90f4302bf738ddb0834f97b5a370e45407a386673acfb3f241963ae7

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 1:14:53 PM UTC (today)

Scan engine

Detection

Engine version

Reason Heuristics

PUP.Air Software.AirSoftw.Bundler (M)

16.6.30.4

File size:

842.4 KB (862,632 bytes)

Product version:

2.0.4.87

Original file name:

setup.exe

File type:

Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:

AirInstaller Download Manager

Language:

English (United States)

Common path:

C:\users\{user}\downloads\avg-free-antivirus.exe

Digital Signature

Signed by:

Air Software

Authority:

VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:

1/24/2013 7:00:00 PM

Valid to:

3/26/2015 7:59:59 PM

Subject:

CN=Air Software, OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O=Air Software, L=Victoria, S=British Columbia, C=CA

Issuer:

CN=VeriSign Class 3 Code Signing 2010 CA, OU=Terms of use at https://www.verisign.com/rpa (c)10, OU=VeriSign Trust Network, O="VeriSign, Inc.", C=US

Serial number:

3AC786E09219DF82DA830E461D4FC39F

File PE Metadata

Compilation timestamp:

1/31/2014 5:09:11 PM

OS version:

5.1

OS bitness:

Win32

Subsystem:

Windows GUI

Linker version:

10.0

CTPH (ssdeep):

12288:o3T1QMZL3JVgzqK+Qw9mBTxRJz09wovCUm7xxvf3uwddNXUANwwJmZxLXajm:i1FL5yzp+QdTM6UyxvvRDU8wfDOm

Entry address:

0x2693D0

Entry point:

60, BE, 00, 60, 5A, 00, 8D, BE, 00, B0, E5, FF, 57, 83, CD, FF, EB, 10, 90, 90, 90, 90, 90, 90, 8A, 06, 46, 88, 07, 47, 01, DB, 75, 07, 8B, 1E, 83, EE, FC, 11, DB, 72, ED, B8, 01, 00, 00, 00, 01, DB, 75, 07, 8B, 1E, 83, EE, FC, 11, DB, 11, C0, 01, DB, 73, 0B, 75, 28, 8B, 1E, 83, EE, FC, 11, DB, 72, 1F, 48, 01, DB, 75, 07, 8B, 1E, 83, EE, FC, 11, DB, 11, C0, EB, D4, 01, DB, 75, 07, 8B, 1E, 83, EE, FC, 11, DB, 11, C9, EB, 52, 31, C9, 83, E8, 03, 72, 11, C1, E0, 08, 8A, 06, 46, 83, F0, FF, 74, 75, D1, F8, 89... 
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Entropy:

7.8859

Packer / compiler:

UPX 2.90LZMA

Code size:

784 KB (802,816 bytes)

The file avg-free-antivirus.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

http://files.installs.co/get/click/nnj1rgkh/?d=http://downloadd.org/.../avg.exe&n=AVG Free Antivirus&key=be9decc1c469dcfc27f31ff723a8512dd224f4b8df62db2f83ba2c6f0d65cd9f&product_image=http://downloadd.org/.../avg.png&sid=AVG&filename=avg-free-antivirus

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