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weather channel desktop.exe

Weather Channel Desktop

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 weather channel desktop.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 downloads.downloadme.co.
Publisher:
Download Assistant  (signed and verified)

Product:
Weather Channel Desktop

Version:
3.0.0.156

MD5:
93731606754bfb9f548a6e7adf965981

SHA-1:
fad69590b99ae1a663048150f5bcdb0fff1a7804

SHA-256:
bbb253d6022645f0130c91576112c158828a4f03fb3b88276f67185ba03728b9

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:
12/25/2024 12:50:42 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Air Software.Download.Bundler (M)
16.6.8.13

File size:
1.1 MB (1,134,872 bytes)

Product version:
3.0.0.156

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}\weather%20channel%20desktop.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Download Assistant

Authority:
Symantec Corporation

Valid from:
5/2/2016 6:00:00 PM

Valid to:
8/1/2017 5:59:59 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:
088066A3A015128F544F3E16DC53BCE8

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

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:lxGbDuqUxQEsn52M5virDnlFB3axYSQ8T29qEJak6:+3AQEAIPLIf69qEJak6

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:
6.9603

Developed / compiled with:
Microsoft Visual C++

Code size:
65.5 KB (67,072 bytes)

The file weather channel desktop.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

http://downloads.downloadme.co/v2/click/scps00x0/?affiliate_image=&d=http://downloadme.co/.../weather-channel.exe&filename=Weather Channel Desktop&key=d1acbb91a219f2026373f5eb4274c4efceccf5f7c12d2298590b11e5b346272e&n=Weather Channel Desktop&product_image=http://downloadme.co/.../weather-channel.png&sid=weather&uao=TW96aWxsYS81LjAgKFdpbmRvd3MgTlQgNi4zOyBXT1c2NCkgQXBwbGVXZWJLaXQvNTM3LjM2IChLSFRNTCwgbGlrZSBHZWNrbykgQ2hyb21lLzUwLjAuMjY2MS4xMDIgU2FmYXJpLzUzNy4zNg__&scid=816cfcbe-1bc6-11e6-a415-0401ac007701

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