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Garry's Mod Setup.exe

Garry's Mod

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 Garry's Mod 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 v.everydls4.com.
Publisher:
DownloadAsst_New  (signed by Download Assistant)

Product:
Garry's Mod

Version:
3.0.0.109

MD5:
912019114e65aefb2fc432491dc231fc

SHA-1:
5486259e886dc2785da484ccf96a3cc759b52c22

SHA-256:
388b70219621ab24630ab96fc2e87abdf5df5bc4f2082e063d6c797ae6ed6e63

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:
11/24/2024 5:40:42 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Air Software (M)
16.7.16.9

File size:
964.8 KB (987,968 bytes)

Product version:
3.0.0.109

Copyright:
(c) DownloadAsst_New

Original file name:
Garry's Mod Setup.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
AirInstaller Download Manager

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\microsoft\windows\inetcache\ie\{random}\garry's mod setup.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Download Assistant

Authority:
Symantec Corporation

Valid from:
2/15/2015 4:00:00 PM

Valid to:
2/16/2016 3:59:59 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:
7/15/2015 1:35:44 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
10.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:xTsUu3RBNOiKOnV+9jKdgKbtBEbh7tArnmHT8iVXWYlSz/Kt:IsiKG+9qohZArmz8ihW4SjKt

Entry address:
0x1288

Entry point:
55, 8B, EC, 83, EC, 14, 53, 56, 57, 6A, 00, FF, 15, 08, 20, 49, 00, 8B, F8, 33, D2, 8B, CF, 8B, 5F, 3C, 03, DF, 89, 5D, FC, 0F, B7, 73, 14, 83, C6, 18, 03, F3, 2B, 05, 1C, 10, 40, 00, 89, 45, F0, 1B, D2, 89, 75, EC, F7, D8, 89, 55, F4, 83, D2, 00, F7, DA, 52, 8B, 93, A0, 00, 00, 00, 50, 8B, 46, 0C, 03, 05, 28, 10, 40, 00, 50, FF, B3, A4, 00, 00, 00, E8, C6, FD, FF, FF, 56, FF, 35, 28, 10, 40, 00, 8B, CF, E8, 42, FF, FF, FF, A1, 20, 10, 40, 00, 83, C4, 18, 83, C6, 28, 83, F8, 01, 76, 18, 56, FF, 35, 2C, 10...
 
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Entropy:
7.0459

Developed / compiled with:
Microsoft Visual C++

Code size:
577 KB (590,848 bytes)

The file Garry's Mod Setup.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

http://v.everydls4.com/v2/click/pn8b7cor/?d=http://software.downloadtree.net/gmod.exe&sid=Garrys Mod-US&uid=4411520&key=21247186f29ba391de82c1b485ec263ff54c7f1b9a0e3236d00ba29652dc1561&affiliate_image=&product_image=https://s3.amazonaws.com/evdlimages/.../product.png&n=Garry's Mod&filename=Garry's Mod Setup

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