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Picasa

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 picasa.exe, “Picasa ” by Download Assistant has been detected as adware by 10 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the AirInstaller Download Manager installer. The file has been seen being downloaded from download.downloadd.org.
Publisher:
Download Assistant   (signed by Download Assistant)

Product:
Picasa

Description:
Picasa

Version:
3.0.0.59

MD5:
9bff24eafc0bae1c54c15dc1c12b67b4

SHA-1:
30ddb513def092d1062cec8ccfcfba7188907339

SHA-256:
2c70b8d47ad01f3d36575fa2167c420ff43dfc5bb30a84da97093b1b4d8332fe

Scanner detections:
10 / 68

Status:
Adware

Description:
This 'download manager' is also considered bundleware, a utility designed to download software (possibly legitimate or opensource) and bundle it with a number of optional offers including ad-supported utilities, toolbars, shopping comparison tools and browser extensions.

Analysis date:
11/26/2024 10:53:10 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

AVG
Generic
2015.0.3271

ESET NOD32
Win32/DownloadAssistant.A potentially unwanted application
7.0.302.0

G Data
Win32.Application.DownloadAssistant
14.12.24

IKARUS anti.virus
PUA.DownloadAssistant
t3scan.1.8.5.0

K7 AntiVirus
Unwanted-Program
13.186.14239

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.DownloadAssistant
v2014.12.04.08

Panda Antivirus
Trj/Genetic.gen
14.12.04.08

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Installer.DownloadAssistant.G
14.12.4.8

Sophos
AirInstaller
4.98

VIPRE Antivirus
Threat.4782985
35224

File size:
833.8 KB (853,856 bytes)

Product version:
3.0.0.59

Copyright:
(c) Download Assistant

Original file name:
setup.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
AirInstaller Download Manager

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\picasa.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Download Assistant

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
8/12/2014 7:00:00 PM

Valid to:
8/12/2016 6:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Download Assistant, O=Download Assistant, L=Victoria, S=British Columbia, C=CA

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:
6BC405E8AC962C676F54816BCC4D4311

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
11/26/2014 3:32:54 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
10.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:0X/3Q9p0jL5qO/v+DO240HRP2VJLST1OZS:yn//vH240oLLSF

Entry address:
0x4C95F

Entry point:
E8, 4E, 1A, 01, 00, E9, 89, FE, FF, FF, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, 8B, 54, 24, 0C, 8B, 4C, 24, 04, 85, D2, 74, 69, 33, C0, 8A, 44, 24, 08, 84, C0, 75, 16, 81, FA, 80, 00, 00, 00, 72, 0E, 83, 3D, C0, 3E, 4A, 00, 00, 74, 05, E9, B1, 1A, 01, 00, 57, 8B, F9, 83, FA, 04, 72, 31, F7, D9, 83, E1, 03, 74, 0C, 2B, D1, 88, 07, 83, C7, 01, 83, E9, 01, 75, F6, 8B, C8, C1, E0, 08, 03, C1, 8B, C8, C1, E0, 10, 03, C1, 8B, CA, 83, E2, 03, C1, E9, 02, 74, 06, F3, AB, 85, D2, 74, 0A, 88, 07, 83, C7, 01, 83, EA, 01, 75, F6...
 
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Entropy:
7.0689

Code size:
467.5 KB (478,720 bytes)

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

http://download.downloadd.org/v2/click/80af325a/?d=http://downloadd.org/.../picasa.exe&n=Picasa&key=b88bdc775b9c07d0c37dcc9470616682052273640ad7bc9c4da8ef90745c2581&affiliate_image=&product_image=http://downloadd.org/.../picasa.png&sid=picasa&filename=Picasa

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