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Farming Simulator Setup.exe

Farming Simulator

Download Assistant

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 Farming Simulator Setup.exe by Download Assistant 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 secure.trustydownloads.com.
Publisher:
DownloadAsst_New  (signed by Download Assistant)

Product:
Farming Simulator

Version:
3.0.0.95

MD5:
158f51aae70530a436b4eae67ee883e5

SHA-1:
ffbd8bddf8a01e351338c9140fed91f93f1c683b

SHA-256:
d1d4a4bffe0af8715d7b5ce6adee6cba854c2300dd7d35d51f280dceaf38201b

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 '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:
12/25/2024 1:26:41 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Air Software.Download.Bundler (M)
16.5.14.9

File size:
960.2 KB (983,216 bytes)

Product version:
3.0.0.95

Copyright:
(c) DownloadAsst_New

Original file name:
Farming Simulator Setup.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
AirInstaller Download Manager

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\farming simulator setup.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Download Assistant

Authority:
Symantec Corporation

Valid from:
2/15/2015 7:00:00 PM

Valid to:
2/16/2016 6:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Download Assistant, O=Download Assistant, L=Victoria, S=British Columbia, C=CA

Issuer:
CN=Symantec Class 3 SHA256 Code Signing CA, OU=Symantec Trust Network, O=Symantec Corporation, C=US

Serial number:
3784E4CAC60231ED82FD7E8E845E8CE3

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
4/28/2015 10:58:57 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
10.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:4avCAd3R0T9PY6ADcyEdRzKJQSAWuZChlKGnRiuqaZI:d6AdBp6ADcjROJpBmEK

Entry address:
0x126A

Entry point:
55, 8B, EC, 83, EC, 10, 53, 56, 57, 6A, 00, FF, 15, 08, 10, 49, 00, 8B, F8, 33, D2, 8B, CF, 8B, 5F, 3C, 03, DF, 2B, 05, 1C, 10, 40, 00, 89, 45, F4, 1B, D2, F7, D8, 89, 55, F8, 0F, B7, 73, 14, 83, D2, 00, F7, DA, 89, 75, F0, 52, 8B, 93, A0, 00, 00, 00, 50, 8B, 44, 1E, 24, 03, 05, 28, 10, 40, 00, 50, FF, B3, A4, 00, 00, 00, E8, 88, FD, FF, FF, 8B, 54, 1E, 28, 83, C4, 10, A1, 28, 10, 40, 00, 2B, D0, 83, FA, 01, 76, 0D, 8B, 4C, 1E, 24, 03, C8, 03, CF, E8, F2, FE, FF, FF, A1, 20, 10, 40, 00, 83, C6, 40, 03, F3...
 
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Entropy:
7.0536

Developed / compiled with:
Microsoft Visual C++

Code size:
574.5 KB (588,288 bytes)

The file Farming Simulator Setup.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

http://secure.trustydownloads.com/v2/click/37mgy2bo/?d=http://www.trustydownloads.com/1downloadfiles/farmingsimulator.exe&n=Farming Simulator&key=4a92bcf9f9e60c0fc687bd6d4485b3c6ca9a97ecd9bc5611fa492e7c00c0ea47&affiliate_image=http://www.trustydownloads.com/inventory/farmingsimulator/.../installicon.png&product_image=http://www.trustydownloads.com/inventory/farmingsimulator/.../installsplash.png&filename=Farming Simulator Setup&sid=bingusa-FarmingSimulator----

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