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Vuze

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 vuze.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 download.review-assist.com.
Publisher:
DownloadAsst_New  (signed by Download Assistant)

Product:
Vuze

Version:
3.0.0.105

MD5:
4f2c54abc9480c395758d42951f07ffa

SHA-1:
f50a55e8c0533367a7e302da09b05f2dff49ebf7

SHA-256:
a2532b45e2f561b5ae999d092aad9e4460968c6c88acf206693e15fa50f82db4

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:
12/27/2024 12:46:43 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Air Software.DownloadAssistant.Bundler (M)
15.12.18.6

File size:
1.1 MB (1,104,480 bytes)

Product version:
3.0.0.105

Copyright:
(c) DownloadAsst_New

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
AirInstaller Download Manager

Language:
Language Neutral

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Download Assistant

Authority:
Symantec Corporation

Valid from:
2/15/2015 4:00:00 PM

Valid to:
2/16/2016 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:
3784E4CAC60231ED82FD7E8E845E8CE3

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:WxGcaQOLMeNYXQ1BgdAcI9lDYiI47uqHnf1+z6Q+2:7nQMMeOXQ4dD/4JHy6Q+2

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:
6.9466

Developed / compiled with:
Microsoft Visual C++

Code size:
65.1 KB (66,674 bytes)

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

http://download.review-assist.com/v2/click/ea070ffd/?d=http://www.installer-assist.com/download/Vuze_5400_Installer32.exe&key=7003db039c77356d360ff6179a0398bc04e8df42a96c3525451e9ab57ad5655d&sid=Vuze&uid=Vuze&affiliate_image=http://download-assist.com/admin/.../vuze_i.png&product_image=http://download-assist.com/admin/.../vuze_p.png&n=Vuze&filename=Vuze

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