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flash player.exe

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.easydl.net.

File name:

flash player.exe

Publisher:

Download Assistant (signed and verified)

Product:

Flash Player

Version:

3.0.0.153

MD5:

f2a02d41bb0183b7ce1654e42c257c24

SHA-1:

81ae8525da93649e483788ed5da45e55400dbcd6

SHA-256:

40d6c514ae4fbedc83449bfb48edfda3fe9a9a0635b75a69efd10212ce321be6

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:

11/16/2024 7:19:28 AM UTC (today)

Scan engine

Detection

Engine version

Reason Heuristics

PUP.Air Software (M)

16.8.3.12

File size:

1.1 MB (1,140,312 bytes)

Product version:

3.0.0.153

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 player.exe

Digital Signature

Signed by:

Download Assistant

Authority:

Symantec Corporation

Valid from:

1/26/2016 12:00:00 AM

Valid to:

3/27/2017 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:

1278A8BBE7E82E656B1FD4779E9BC2F0

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:+xGnMZhT69iV9I8CCHdqlwMeimL4COwCciXqzIBzpD9REJakFf:DKg9iR5diUQXREJakp

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:

6.9660

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.easydl.net/v2/click/jsttxfb6/?d=http://.../uploads/downloads/install_flash_player_20_plugin.exe&key=8d8f5e4a9b030fc7b185237ac56f414b1faaf45c25edce6a92a04ea330f69e6d&sid=easydl-flash-player&uid=&affiliate_image=&product_image=&icon=http://.../favicon.ico&n=Flash Player&filename=Flash Player

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