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adobe_premiere_pro_he.exe

Symbolicom Holdings Ltd

The installer utilizes the installCore download manager which may bundle additional offers for various ad-supported toolbars, extensions and utilities. The application adobe_premiere_pro_he.exe by Symbolicom Holdings 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 api.downloadastro.com.
Publisher:
Symbolicom Holdings Ltd  (signed and verified)

MD5:
377ab222341fc06f2c32aabf4160a5b8

SHA-1:
42f6511a582bc27f21b0275a4a08637ba18bc154

SHA-256:
d2dd61d3275cf93e0da3470b41a031ebf6fe6f8e8a2020d2769d311298ea1562

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:
4/19/2024 12:45:53 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.installCore (M)
16.10.8.12

File size:
697.9 KB (714,624 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
installCore (using Inno Setup)

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Symbolicom Holdings Ltd

Authority:
COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:
1/8/2014 2:00:00 AM

Valid to:
1/9/2015 1:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=Symbolicom Holdings Ltd, OU=Symbolicom, O=Symbolicom Holdings Ltd, STREET=Trident Cyprus, STREET=115 Griva Digeni Avenue Trident Centre, STREET=Limassol, L=Limassol, S=Cyprus, PostalCode=3101, C=CY

Issuer:
CN=COMODO Code Signing CA 2, O=COMODO CA Limited, L=Salford, S=Greater Manchester, C=GB

Serial number:
00C4B90F930A0BA04B111E671526916207

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
6/20/1992 1:22:17 AM

OS version:
1.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.25

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:jvpghu68Okv8a8I2E7DFouu9TSfPoGYdF0nqk203TkyEe2bOFbWRMUJDMy1TXzHC:jvmhuBYjgDjaYGfQH203d/+f2UDTXz

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...
 
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Entropy:
7.8326

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

Code size:
37 KB (37,888 bytes)

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

http://api.downloadastro.com/api/downloader/.../he?callback=jsonpCallbackDownload&_=1394308729

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