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Windows Media Player

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 windows media player.exe, “Windows Media Player ” by Download Assistant has been detected as adware by 9 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the AirInstaller Download Manager installer. The file has been seen being downloaded from download.installs.co.
Publisher:
Download Assistant   (signed by Download Assistant)

Product:
Windows Media Player

Description:
Windows Media Player

Version:
3.0.0.21

MD5:
8631cbdf74702b8bfcc3aa85faddc270

SHA-1:
139957214cddcc08dbda69e0dc9979c42e314d24

SHA-256:
edad5828c1f11a991736ccdc6d7f4d20ecfb9538e70a0891e9cd5f6c7fc81caf

Scanner detections:
9 / 68

Status:
Adware

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:
12/25/2024 12:53:11 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Agnitum Outpost
Riskware.Agent
7.1.1

AVG
Generic
2015.0.3260

ESET NOD32
Win32/DownloadAssistant (variant)
8.10878

IKARUS anti.virus
PUA.DownloadAssistant
t3scan.1.8.5.0

K7 AntiVirus
Unwanted-Program
13.187.14332

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.DownloadAssistant
v2014.12.15.06

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Installer.DownloadAssistant.U
14.12.15.5

Sophos
PUA 'AirInstaller'
5.08

VIPRE Antivirus
Threat.4782985
35418

File size:
897.4 KB (918,888 bytes)

Product version:
3.0.0.21

Copyright:
(c) Download Assistant

Original file name:
setup.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
AirInstaller Download Manager

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\windows media player.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Download Assistant

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
8/12/2014 7:00:00 PM

Valid to:
8/12/2016 6:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Download Assistant, O=Download Assistant, L=Victoria, S=British Columbia, C=CA

Issuer:
CN=VeriSign Class 3 Code Signing 2010 CA, OU=Terms of use at https://www.verisign.com/rpa (c)10, OU=VeriSign Trust Network, O="VeriSign, Inc.", C=US

Serial number:
6BC405E8AC962C676F54816BCC4D4311

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
10/3/2014 11:19:22 AM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
10.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:OPT80SR76+GxaDhSDdrdpguknjK/k//8g:p0SROiSDNguuK6

Entry address:
0x4EA5F

Entry point:
E8, 5E, 09, 01, 00, E9, 89, FE, FF, FF, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, 8B, 54, 24, 0C, 8B, 4C, 24, 04, 85, D2, 74, 69, 33, C0, 8A, 44, 24, 08, 84, C0, 75, 16, 81, FA, 80, 00, 00, 00, 72, 0E, 83, 3D, 20, 27, 4A, 00, 00, 74, 05, E9, C1, 09, 01, 00, 57, 8B, F9, 83, FA, 04, 72, 31, F7, D9, 83, E1, 03, 74, 0C, 2B, D1, 88, 07, 83, C7, 01, 83, E9, 01, 75, F6, 8B, C8, C1, E0, 08, 03, C1, 8B, C8, C1, E0, 10, 03, C1, 8B, CA, 83, E2, 03, C1, E9, 02, 74, 06, F3, AB, 85, D2, 74, 0A, 88, 07, 83, C7, 01, 83, EA, 01, 75, F6...
 
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Entropy:
7.2053

Code size:
463.5 KB (474,624 bytes)

The file windows media player.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

http://download.installs.co/v2/click/9ks3c7y4/?d=http://downloadd.org/.../windowsmediaplayer.exe&n=Windows Media Player&key=5e8cdfc9495ae370e63c65bd1fc41c5065188d83cf9db7f382bef8adc624b5bb&product_image=http://downloadd.org/.../windowsmediaplayer.png&sid=Windows Media Player&filename=Windows Media Player

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