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Flash Player

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 flash player.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 download.chdownload.eu.
Publisher:
Download Assistant  (signed and verified)

Product:
Flash Player

Version:
3.0.0.155

MD5:
ea1e100fa8122542e46213d9784cc15d

SHA-1:
4ab292413a5a09e8871d85f3ee2c69b622f6cdf6

SHA-256:
adc3ad3a6aae156b88d9ba46e60ceb935cb7335094335aa46b2cbca6f0c4cbd1

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:
11/24/2024 10:18:36 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Air Software.Download.Bundler (M)
16.6.8.1

File size:
1.2 MB (1,224,416 bytes)

Product version:
3.0.0.155

Copyright:
(c) Download Assistant

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
AirInstaller Download Manager

Language:
Language Neutral

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\microsoft\windows\inetcache\ie\{random}\flash%20player.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Download Assistant

Authority:
Symantec Corporation

Valid from:
5/3/2016 1:00:00 AM

Valid to:
8/2/2017 12:59:59 AM

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:
088066A3A015128F544F3E16DC53BCE8

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
1/30/2013 2:21:56 PM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.25

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:HxGBjYjaBJmnP3hsDFOEialpc/K7+W8hSvaB24cRk0IrSlmoEJaki2:wJGa4PRsDsEia8Fa40LnhEJaki2

Entry address:
0x113BC

Entry point:
55, 8B, EC, 83, C4, A4, 53, 56, 57, 33, C0, 89, 45, C4, 89, 45, C0, 89, 45, A4, 89, 45, D0, 89, 45, C8, 89, 45, CC, 89, 45, D4, 89, 45, D8, 89, 45, EC, B8, 2C, 00, 41, 00, E8, E8, 51, FF, FF, 33, C0, 55, 68, 9E, 1A, 41, 00, 64, FF, 30, 64, 89, 20, 33, D2, 55, 68, 5A, 1A, 41, 00, 64, FF, 32, 64, 89, 22, A1, 48, 5B, 41, 00, E8, 16, D8, FF, FF, E8, 65, D3, FF, FF, 80, 3D, DC, 2A, 41, 00, 00, 74, 0C, E8, 2B, D9, FF, FF, 33, C0, E8, 80, 32, FF, FF, 8D, 55, EC, 33, C0, E8, E2, A3, FF, FF, 8B, 55, EC, B8, 50, 86...
 
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Entropy:
6.8321

Developed / compiled with:
Microsoft Visual C++

Code size:
65.5 KB (67,072 bytes)

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

http://download.chdownload.eu/v2/click/5cd6b580/?affiliate_image=&d=http://www.easydl.net/uploads/downloads/install_flash_player_20_plugin.exe&filename=Flash Player&icon=http://www.easydl.net/favicon.ico&key=8d8f5e4a9b030fc7b185237ac56f414b1faaf45c25edce6a92a04ea330f69e6d&n=Flash Player&product_image=http://www.downloadflash.net/.../image-installer.png&sid=easydl-flash-player&uid=&uao=TW96aWxsYS81LjAgKFdpbmRvd3MgTlQgMTAuMCkgQXBwbGVXZWJLaXQvNTM3LjM2IChLSFRNTCwgbGlrZSBHZWNrbykgQ2hyb21lLzQ4LjAuMjU2NC4xMCBTYWZhcmkvNTM3LjM2&scid=a2c96250-1967-11e6-aae5-0401ac006801

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