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Showbox

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 showbox 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 everydownload.softwaredelivery2.com.
Publisher:
Download Assistant  (signed and verified)

Product:
Showbox

Version:
3.0.0.130

MD5:
9b09be79dbf30bce513b3a3132186921

SHA-1:
7eabdaf35319e3c33a6bfaaec2f0dfcd2756d022

SHA-256:
28dacfeac72d57bec42b302918b2af3fd423c93e9c85a2ccfc3e19512006d10a

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:
11/15/2024 11:59:55 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Air Software (M)
17.3.14.5

File size:
1.1 MB (1,129,752 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\microsoft\windows\inetcache\ie\{random}\showbox 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:
1/30/2013 8:21:56 AM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.25

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:
6.9485

Developed / compiled with:
Microsoft Visual C++

Code size:
65.5 KB (67,072 bytes)

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

http://everydownload.softwaredelivery2.com/v2/click/78678981/?d=https://s3.amazonaws.com/latestversion/showbox.exe&sid=Showbox-US&uid=6530915&key=2bc9aa1c7506044a9394d99a114c54b01b420af8798b04ce6e83fac733b0fccb&affiliate_image=&product_image=https://s3.amazonaws.com/wimagespb/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/10195951/product1.png&n=Showbox&filename=Showbox Setup&done_url=http://thankufordownloading.com/thank-you/&cancel_url=http://thankufordownloading.com/.../

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