adobe_flash_setup.exe

Application

OOO Profit Adverts

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, “Application Setup ” by OOO Profit Adverts 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 updatenew.videoupdatelive.com and multiple other hosts.
Publisher:
Installer Web software   (signed by OOO Profit Adverts)

Product:
Application

Description:
Application Setup

Version:
1.2.5.5

MD5:
cce20150e6e122e2e9f310a6fc3685a4

SHA-1:
b5f9542d75077d93c1f0dad847b365cd3bb80562

SHA-256:
efaee85e40d8f7b65da3c7fe388bd6bf9d31d71afcc4475ff7af60ef3b1beab6

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:
5/20/2024 10:01:12 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.installCore.OOOProfi.Installer (M)
16.5.10.0

File size:
782.6 KB (801,408 bytes)

Product version:
3.1.7

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
installCore (using Inno Setup)

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

Digital Signature
Authority:
COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:
1/24/2015 1:00:00 AM

Valid to:
1/25/2016 12:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=OOO Profit Adverts, O=OOO Profit Adverts, STREET=Ulitsa Yurowski 92, L=Moscow, S=Moscow, PostalCode=125466, C=RU

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

Serial number:
03BC4EC26FF816435D336E5F56EC711A

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
6/20/1992 12:22:17 AM

OS version:
1.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.25

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:t0xpymbFzLmbeAdZCEhKTxyYkqPHMtmElyt452aBGjKwCxVCeeRlh1emn/chk:t0xMWX2dZCI34ZHU8j1emnkS

Entry address:
0x9C40

Entry point:
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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 2 URLs.

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