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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.downl.eu.

File name:

flash player.exe

Publisher:

Download Assistant (signed and verified)

Product:

Flash Player

Version:

3.0.0.156

MD5:

e87602cd4bac2c59ee53c5f06006aa89

SHA-1:

b10d4a12c9e17a69d9e072b1c9ffae5f306f6394

SHA-256:

5a4f7aa9878f5fd8d7b41178afc97490ef27ef2f7885c2633d0814d4e494c2f0

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:

1/13/2025 4:13:05 AM UTC (today)

Scan engine

Detection

Engine version

Reason Heuristics

PUP.Air Software.Download.Bundler (M)

16.6.13.8

File size:

1.2 MB (1,227,296 bytes)

Product version:

3.0.0.156

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:

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:cxGBK5ctLZJY9Hnfui7HG6sYBljEPCTJl8Pj5F3iPhcLHMDcn/XkbAEJakBJ:hLZJY9Hnmi7mmBljEPCTJlav3ikHmqXq

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:

6.8363

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.downl.eu/v2/click/huj37eve/?d=http://.../uploads/downloads/install_flash_player_20_plugin.exe&key=8d8f5e4a9b030fc7b185237ac56f414b1faaf45c25edce6a92a04ea330f69e6d&sid=easydl-flash-player&uid=&affiliate_image=&product_image=http://www.downloadflash.net/images/image-installer.png&icon=http://.../favicon.ico&n=Flash Player&filename=Flash Player

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