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flash-player.exe

Download Manager

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 flash-player.exe by Download Manager has been detected as adware by 21 anti-malware scanners. It uses the InstallCore engine which may bundle additional software offers including toolbars and browser extensions. The file has been seen being downloaded from software.download-free.com.
Publisher:
Download Manager  (signed and verified)

MD5:
e4476355580d84c2c576c3f5fce58d18

SHA-1:
26f64383dbf176c6f4d7899f56bfa17be308caa8

SHA-256:
8b40dde4c52a3ea99a9fdf7dba397442f4b7a695be82355266fdbe4b5fed6fc6

Scanner detections:
21 / 68

Status:
Adware

Explanation:
Uses the InstallCore download manager to install additional potentially unwanted software which may include extensions such as DealPly and various toolbars.

Analysis date:
12/27/2024 7:43:23 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Gen:Variant.Strictor.25685
1047

Avira AntiVirus
ADWARE/InstallCore.Gen
7.11.131.186

Baidu Antivirus
Adware.Win32.InstallCore
4.0.3.14324

Bitdefender
Gen:Variant.Strictor.25685
1.0.20.415

Bkav FE
W32.Cloda79.Trojan
1.3.0.4924

Comodo Security
UnclassifiedMalware
17786

Dr.Web
Adware.InstallCore.45
9.0.1.083

Emsisoft Anti-Malware
Gen:Variant.Strictor.25685
8.14.03.24.05

ESET NOD32
Win32/InstallCore (variant)
8.9426

F-Secure
Gen:Variant.Strictor.25685
11.2014-24-03_2

G Data
Gen:Variant.Strictor.25685
14.3.24

IKARUS anti.virus
Win32.SuspectCrc
t3scan.2.2.29

K7 AntiVirus
Riskware
13.175.11177

McAfee
Artemis!E4476355580D
5600.7181

MicroWorld eScan
Gen:Variant.Strictor.25685
15.0.0.249

NANO AntiVirus
Trojan.Win32.InstallCore.wrhfe
0.28.0.57630

Qihoo 360 Security
HEUR/Malware.QVM20.Gen
1.0.0.1015

Reason Heuristics
PUP.DownloadManager.M
14.8.7.23

Rising Antivirus
PE:Malware.XPACK-LNR/Heur!1.5594
23.00.65.14322

Sophos
Generic PUA CG
4.97

VIPRE Antivirus
Trojan.Win32.Generic
26466

File size:
1014.2 KB (1,038,496 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\flash-player.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Download Manager

Authority:
COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:
5/30/2012 5:00:00 PM

Valid to:
5/31/2016 4:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Download Manager, O=Download Manager, STREET=26 York Street, STREET=Westminster, L=London, S=London, PostalCode=W1U 6PZ, C=GB

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

Serial number:
19777BC7489D8203801D05ACE10DBEAC

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
6/19/1992 3:22:17 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.25

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:b8O0oWNcQHnkg/CoiVGd0wveVYoROzNfPykm1oYFAdQPV0JvKm+cjmj4CHNrXCot:b8O7WN5HnkCsVUz3pKbrFo1H64CHNjLt

Entry address:
0xC1978

Entry point:
55, 8B, EC, 83, C4, F0, B8, F8, 85, 41, 00, E8, AD, ED, FF, FF, FF, FF, 8B, C8, 85, C9, 75, 05, 33, C0, 5E, 5B, C3, A1, DC, 55, 46, 00, 89, 01, 89, 0D, DC, 55, 46, 00, 33, D2, 8B, C2, 03, C0, 8D, 44, C1, 04, 8B, 1E, 89, 18, 89, 06, 42, 83, FA, 64, 75, EC, 8B, 06, 8B, 10, 89, 16, 5E, 5B, C3, 90, 89, 00, 89, 40, 04, C3, 8B, C0, 53, 56, 8B, F2, 8B, D8, E8, 9D, FF, FF, FF, 85, C0, 75, 05, 33, C0, 5E, 5B, C3, 8B, 16, 89, 50, 08, 8B, 56, 04, 89, 50, 0C, 8B, 13, 89, 10, 89, 58, 04, 89, 42, 04, 89, 03, B0, 01, 5E...
 
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Entropy:
6.9248

Developed / compiled with:
Microsoft Visual C++

Code size:
788 KB (806,912 bytes)

The file flash-player.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

http://software.download-free.com/.../Flash-Player.exe

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