» google_chrome_setup.exe
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google_chrome_setup.exe

Premium Installer

This adware bundler is distributed through Adknowledge's advertising supported software managers. The application google_chrome_setup.exe by Premium Installer 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 Adknowledge Fusion installer. With this installer, users are expecting to download Google's Chrome web browser but before that occurs they may be presented with additional offers, mostly potentially unwanted software or adware.

File name:

Publisher:

Premium Installer (signed and verified)

MD5:

a0d1869aaee7caec1c71b48ae3e34955

SHA-1:

23adfe415a087eaf3fbc6c6f68e49f1b6d29e6a3

SHA-256:

e37c2d61396bb04b0c987c77bf660964ea2abdd9c7f30ad45b0b401eba71ed2d

Scanner detections:

1 / 68

Status:

Adware

Explanation:

This setup/installer bundles various adware components.

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:

11/23/2024 8:13:58 AM UTC (today)

Scan engine

Detection

Engine version

Reason Heuristics

PUP.Adknowledge (M)

17.3.16.0

File size:

1 MB (1,064,088 bytes)

File type:

Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:

Adknowledge Fusion

Common path:

C:\users\{user}\downloads\google_chrome_setup.exe

Digital Signature

Signed by:

Premium Installer

Authority:

VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:

7/12/2013 5:00:00 PM

Valid to:

8/2/2014 4:59:59 PM

Subject:

CN=Premium Installer, OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O=Premium Installer, L=Wilmington, S=Delaware, C=US

Issuer:

CN=VeriSign Class 3 Code Signing 2010 CA, OU=Terms of use at https://www.verisign.com/rpa (c)10, OU=VeriSign Trust Network, O="VeriSign, Inc.", C=US

Serial number:

35BB74B905C01CE61DA131BA49337F33

File PE Metadata

Compilation timestamp:

7/17/2013 7:17:26 AM

OS version:

5.0

OS bitness:

Win32

Subsystem:

Windows GUI

Linker version:

9.0

Entry address:

0x470C

Entry point:

E8, 7B, 2F, 00, 00, E9, 78, FE, FF, FF, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 83, EC, 20, 8B, 45, 08, 56, 57, 6A, 08, 59, BE, 54, C2, 41, 00, 8D, 7D, E0, F3, A5, 89, 45, F8, 8B, 45, 0C, 5F, 89, 45, FC, 5E, 85, C0, 74, 0C, F6, 00, 08, 74, 07, C7, 45, F4, 00, 40, 99, 01, 8D, 45, F4, 50, FF, 75, F0, FF, 75, E4, FF, 75, E0, FF, 15, 44, C0, 41, 00, C9, C2, 08, 00, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 51, 53, 8B, 45, 0C, 83, C0, 0C, 89, 45, FC, 64, 8B, 1D, 00, 00, 00, 00, 8B, 03, 64, A3, 00, 00, 00, 00, 8B, 45, 08, 8B, 5D, 0C, 8B, 6D, FC, 8B, 63... 
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Entropy:

6.9437

Code size:

106.5 KB (109,056 bytes)

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