Silverlight Setup.exe

Silverlight

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 Silverlight 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 dl.everydownload1.com.
Publisher:
Download Assistant  (signed and verified)

Product:
Silverlight

Version:
3.0.0.110

MD5:
2457209f064fc629ce257e115a51f2b1

SHA-1:
3bb864460e21704071208e1b709cc3d4c154b8cc

SHA-256:
8bc1fe1adcac72efe7759f9181f6ab4f02c9d640a45d49785e31d0edadd81a8d

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:
11/30/2024 3:40:47 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Air Software.DownloadAssistant.Bundler (M)
16.1.23.22

File size:
964.8 KB (987,928 bytes)

Product version:
3.0.0.110

Copyright:
(c) Download Assistant

Original file name:
Silverlight 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}\silverlight setup.exe

Digital Signature
Authority:
Symantec Corporation

Valid from:
6/20/2015 4:00:00 PM

Valid to:
6/20/2016 3:59:59 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:
7/20/2015 3:16:24 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
10.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:VZ4UBYSuSRef0pajRo16GVZw3RR6CBRtT7E3Y28hDzBNkKBWw/TvMqr03MUzSSNJ:rqC8fYat73REC57kY28hZc37S+8sS4Z

Entry address:
0x1288

Entry point:
55, 8B, EC, 83, EC, 14, 53, 56, 57, 6A, 00, FF, 15, 08, 20, 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:
7.0511

Developed / compiled with:
Microsoft Visual C++

Code size:
577 KB (590,848 bytes)

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

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