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microsoft_security_essentials_setup.exe

Microsoft Security

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 microsoft_security_essentials_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 software.install-wiz.com.

File name:

Publisher:

Download Assistant (signed and verified)

Product:

Microsoft Security

Version:

3.0.0.105

MD5:

2f1ca64e19b86806083938e0aa9ebfb0

SHA-1:

c14c3890977ff7bc76ad12fa4e544d96a980c7e7

SHA-256:

68297fd7842130a8666b25030059cd184e21b2a8f65144d0c722106586972018

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 12:19:16 PM UTC (today)

Scan engine

Detection

Engine version

Reason Heuristics

PUP.Air Software.DownloadAssistant.Bundler (M)

15.12.30.0

File size:

960.5 KB (983,544 bytes)

Product version:

3.0.0.105

Original file name:

microsoft_security_essentials_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}\microsoft_security_essentials_setup.exe

Digital Signature

Signed by:

Download Assistant

Authority:

Symantec Corporation

Valid from:

6/20/2015 7:00:00 PM

Valid to:

6/20/2016 6:59:59 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:

7/1/2015 3:01:54 PM

OS version:

5.1

OS bitness:

Win32

Subsystem:

Windows GUI

Linker version:

10.0

CTPH (ssdeep):

12288:WK6bsIIJgHEpxfC6yHLndLsxJZQFXVFRnn7z9+qX88yQsJP491TtZtmYC+V:Wt59TrnyvQjLRqkPU+V

Entry address:

0x1288

Entry point:

55, 8B, EC, 83, EC, 14, 53, 56, 57, 6A, 00, FF, 15, 08, 10, 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:

7.0515

Developed / compiled with:

Microsoft Visual C++

Code size:

574.5 KB (588,288 bytes)

The file microsoft_security_essentials_setup.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

http://software.install-wiz.com/v2/click/r8zihncw/?d=http://downloadsly.com/download/microsoft_security_essentials_setup.exe&key=1eb8a70a7e3e5e12654ff1843330a30270de1401824829bef1eae282f5cbca93&sid=mseus-dldsly-202548-8766847608-gs1003&uid=&affiliate_image=http://downloadsly.com/.../mse-logo.png&product_image=http://downloadsly.com/.../mse-img.png&n=Microsoft Security&filename=microsoft_security_essentials_setup

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