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Minecraft Setup.exe

Minecraft

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 Minecraft 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. With this installer, users are expecting to download Minecraft but before that occurs they may be presented with additional offers, mostly potentially unwanted software or adware.

File name:

Minecraft Setup.exe

Publisher:

DownloadAsst_New (signed by Download Assistant)

Product:

Minecraft

Version:

3.0.0.89

MD5:

8fba99424c7473b236d1f88635cafdc2

SHA-1:

c44de95e9020ca73f13327496592d71987ac8533

SHA-256:

572495bab4d6f0b8f74f18eac13d9a8ff1ef3b030456b1c52843fbbd73d6f9f6

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:

11/5/2024 2:37:03 AM UTC (today)

Scan engine

Detection

Engine version

Reason Heuristics

PUP.Air Software.Download.Bundler (M)

16.7.13.8

File size:

956.7 KB (979,624 bytes)

Product version:

3.0.0.89

Original file name:

Minecraft 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}\minecraft setup.exe

Digital Signature

Signed by:

Download Assistant

Authority:

Symantec Corporation

Valid from:

2/15/2015 6:00:00 PM

Valid to:

2/16/2016 5:59:59 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:

4/5/2015 5:15:40 PM

OS version:

5.1

OS bitness:

Win32

Subsystem:

Windows GUI

Linker version:

10.0

CTPH (ssdeep):

24576:YJPXIIVHWCrFx9jqkrVBXiYUwHQoekBTF4uF0Xu:eDVbF+kMCHBZ460+

Entry address:

0x126A

Entry point:

55, 8B, EC, 83, EC, 10, 53, 56, 57, 6A, 00, FF, 15, 08, 10, 49, 00, 8B, F8, 33, D2, 8B, CF, 8B, 5F, 3C, 03, DF, 2B, 05, 1C, 10, 40, 00, 89, 45, F4, 1B, D2, F7, D8, 89, 55, F8, 0F, B7, 73, 14, 83, D2, 00, F7, DA, 89, 75, F0, 52, 8B, 93, A0, 00, 00, 00, 50, 8B, 44, 1E, 24, 03, 05, 28, 10, 40, 00, 50, FF, B3, A4, 00, 00, 00, E8, 88, FD, FF, FF, 8B, 54, 1E, 28, 83, C4, 10, A1, 28, 10, 40, 00, 2B, D0, 83, FA, 01, 76, 0D, 8B, 4C, 1E, 24, 03, C8, 03, CF, E8, F2, FE, FF, FF, A1, 20, 10, 40, 00, 83, C6, 40, 03, F3... 
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Entropy:

7.0406

Developed / compiled with:

Microsoft Visual C++

Code size:

574.5 KB (588,288 bytes)

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

http://v.evdls.com/v2/click/cf1475d9/?d=http://software.downloadtree.net/Minecraft.exe&sid=Minecraft-US&uid=2466702&key=430f18cb8552cf99dd8a62dc60b7bf77948746a84bae45eecd7c412a63cd012c&affiliate_image=&product_image=https://s3.amazonaws.com/evdlimages/.../product.jpg&n=Minecraft&filename=Minecraft Setup

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