» garry's mod setup.exe
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garry's mod setup.exe

Steam

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. It is also typically executed from an Internet Explorer cache folder. The file has been seen being downloaded from a.softwaredownloads2.com.

File name:

Publisher:

Download Assistant (signed and verified)

Product:

Steam

Version:

3.0.0.125

MD5:

98676867b9f0de2e013641f0b1a1c206

SHA-1:

6da988ee4fc2be104c2884b75e722f48295cb115

SHA-256:

a7ac177f3326e47f467124611b2d6cd9dff4cf7a33b45af41417f2b937bb952f

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:

12/26/2024 3:02:21 PM UTC (today)

Scan engine

Detection

Engine version

Reason Heuristics

PUP.Air Software.Download.Bundler (M)

16.6.23.13

File size:

1.1 MB (1,130,688 bytes)

Product version:

3.0.0.125

File type:

Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:

AirInstaller Download Manager

Language:

Language Neutral

Common path:

C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\microsoft\windows\temporary internet files\content.ie5\{random}\garry's mod setup.exe

Digital Signature

Signed by:

Download Assistant

Authority:

Symantec Corporation

Valid from:

6/20/2015 5:00:00 PM

Valid to:

6/20/2016 4:59:59 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:

68A4319BC2FC7C8CEA600E8D68FFA326

File PE Metadata

Compilation timestamp:

1/30/2013 6:21:56 AM

OS version:

5.0

OS bitness:

Win32

Subsystem:

Windows GUI

Linker version:

2.25

CTPH (ssdeep):

24576:fxGM4c4tIty1+sih4Rc+aN0Wqjdh0Tx9GGxFs4R+Tk:ok4tIt6+J6AnqJ2JEw

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:

6.9559

Developed / compiled with:

Microsoft Visual C++

Code size:

65.5 KB (67,072 bytes)

The file garry's mod setup.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

http://a.softwaredownloads2.com/v2/click/pn8b7cor/?d=http://software.every-download.com/gmod.exe&sid=Garrys Mod-US-GEM&uid=5385763&key=31f63f05cfb0ae7c7e54b3773248b078b533a1cd59bed9f64714ece75ad8d2dd&affiliate_image=&product_image=https://s3.amazonaws.com/evdlimages/.../product.png&n=Steam&filename=Garry's Mod Setup

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