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adobe-photoshop-free

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 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 the user's temporary directory. The file has been seen being downloaded from download.wdescarga.com.
Publisher:
Download Assistant  (signed and verified)

Product:
adobe-photoshop-free

Version:
3.0.0.130

MD5:
080b1d2fda032999d0f9fd81cde794bb

SHA-1:
be87031c38a5a4637f04807685a732af0826f63e

SHA-256:
53fbe4bd706c2ff834ed0004cd67fb79a8020572c7b9bc8334b1e1b303efb2a6

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 '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:
12/26/2024 6:18:48 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Air Software.DownloadAssistant.Bundler (M)
16.2.11.19

File size:
1.1 MB (1,132,640 bytes)

Product version:
3.0.0.130

Copyright:
(c) Download Assistant

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
AirInstaller Download Manager

Language:
Language Neutral

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\temp\{random}.tmp\6v7irli5\setup.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Download Assistant

Authority:
Symantec Corporation

Valid from:
7/27/2015 5:00:00 PM

Valid to:
7/27/2016 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:
5AB0D4FBB68E66252A764F6A8E02A8ED

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):
24576:0xGXKT1h68ZW7+yQIvhA/ccnr0pe9pw4ydX7UZFQBpbMp57XFSg4xsXk:56ZE84+/IZAXnr0peydXxnbMp57XFSgU

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:
6.9530

Developed / compiled with:
Microsoft Visual C++

Code size:
65.5 KB (67,072 bytes)

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

http://download.wdescarga.com/v2/click/d9e3f186/?affiliate_image=http://download-405.com/presentation/assets/Static205/.../icon.png&d=http://toolboox.com/bin/adobe-photoshop-free.exe&filename=adobe-photoshop-free&key=d49098619c5dde87cbc8d9930bd5978dcfe81179b40857c5e9379c2f3f46d46a&n=adobe-photoshop-free&product_image=http://download-405.com/presentation/assets/Static205/.../installer.png&sid=8848&uid=8848&uao=TW96aWxsYS81LjAgKFdpbmRvd3MgTlQgNi4yOyBXT1c2NCkgQXBwbGVXZWJLaXQvNTM3LjM2IChLSFRNTCwgbGlrZSBHZWNrbykgQ2hyb21lLzQ2LjAuMjQ5MC44MCBTYWZhcmkvNTM3LjM2&scid=fd127fb8-88c0-11e5-b2e2-04016dd64501

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