adobe_flash_setup.exe

Web Installer

ADVERT KHAUS, OOO

The installer utilizes the installCore download manager which may bundle additional offers for various ad-supported toolbars, extensions and utilities. The application adobe_flash_setup.exe, “Web Installer Setup ” by ADVERT KHAUS, OOO 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 installCore installer. The file has been seen being downloaded from check24.onlineliveupdate.com.
Publisher:
Internet   (signed by ADVERT KHAUS, OOO)

Product:
Web Installer

Description:
Web Installer Setup

MD5:
5b7357bbde6cf05a9c0f8afef37a0a6b

SHA-1:
3317232cd15d632dbb325a7f81dbd00b8bef8dcf

SHA-256:
a43f51ed3fa82c0d22be0263c864fffbbf683c84eec70c50f92a2aaa3ca2f868

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:
5/15/2024 8:09:01 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.installCore (M)
17.3.1.8

File size:
780.7 KB (799,464 bytes)

Product version:
2.1.7

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
installCore (using Inno Setup)

Language:
Language Neutral

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

Digital Signature
Authority:
COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:
1/26/2015 12:00:00 AM

Valid to:
1/26/2016 11:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN="ADVERT KHAUS, OOO", O="ADVERT KHAUS, OOO", STREET=Ulitsa Pereyaslavskaya M 7str12, L=Moscow, S=Moscow, PostalCode=129110, C=RU

Issuer:
CN=COMODO RSA Code Signing CA, O=COMODO CA Limited, L=Salford, S=Greater Manchester, C=GB

Serial number:
009C0A5126E1F904E3A455D87D1CF9C900

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
6/19/1992 11:22:17 PM

OS version:
1.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.25

Entry address:
0x9C40

Entry point:
55, 8B, EC, 83, C4, C4, 53, 56, 57, 33, C0, 89, 45, F0, 89, 45, DC, E8, 86, 94, FF, FF, E8, 8D, A6, FF, FF, E8, 1C, A9, FF, FF, E8, 53, C9, FF, FF, E8, 9A, C9, FF, FF, E8, C9, F2, FF, FF, E8, 30, F4, FF, FF, 33, C0, 55, 68, FC, A2, 40, 00, 64, FF, 30, 64, 89, 20, 33, D2, 55, 68, C5, A2, 40, 00, 64, FF, 32, 64, 89, 22, A1, 14, C0, 40, 00, E8, 96, FE, FF, FF, E8, C9, FA, FF, FF, 8D, 55, F0, 33, C0, E8, 83, CF, FF, FF, 8B, 55, F0, B8, 24, CE, 40, 00, E8, 32, 95, FF, FF, 6A, 02, 6A, 00, 6A, 01, 8B, 0D, 24, CE...
 
[+]

Entropy:
7.8115

Packer / compiler:
Inno Setup v5.x - Installer Maker

Code size:
37 KB (37,888 bytes)

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

http://check24.onlineliveupdate.com/dl.php?conversion_id=14313715042539&app_id=4&lp_id=731&v=ico&stub_id=231&v_id=rmWIsfz-m7JNOeh3p83P_PTb3WFGDORqeIHUHAp9cyk.&pcl=Q_Ku2C3Bvqm3HveGi7aXOtN5-6x2cqv06lU2Gr_SkTo.&CLICK_ID=73OPTVluGu__i-LoJsTwvm_t5dwBuhNoSa0aVO2_U8Iuo0rkXJ4GKqmWUJYynGHmKjvWMw1a0pv22xUeJP2pm_RqVIly_BVcSk55-jDjQXx3Wt1KyCS_DkNkPEGFzPvWOOpARA3dquLb0_eXBkaVF26A7B2xfplz6Cv8puHnxC4IvXMtLBZz3L3Nu0en34ZiWC10P5ygKhxtE5_gmA1bi8zcyakURz3QuhxSVmsbjZgBmLogZVBkv-BfQ7eCZeSdfef-1dLxFuFsP9imhrRPVn_gVyAjhpQHwSr8eqAzQCs2K4QyK8hgQ0ODVLBZSX_QWBwlWKWSOKb2h8oIKl2oVZP3-iSFrxVnd_I3gazMHofiLp_cwwtsS2DELAEoMsi58j4Rj7tvQ7tfgU1ruCW57NkkgUiE1o8NjgP3eWJ17l4nwGdb0OtrZU7fPRVnZt1dESc

Remove adobe_flash_setup.exe - Powered by Reason Core Security