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avast-free-antivirus.exe

CHIP Digital GmbH

The application avast-free-antivirus.exe, “CHIP Secured Installer” by CHIP Digital GmbH has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 5 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the Covus installer. With this installer, users are expecting to download the free AVAST Antivirus but before that occurs they may be presented with additional offers, mostly potentially unwanted software or adware. The file has been seen being downloaded from go.redirectingat.com.
Publisher:
CHIP Digital GmbH  (signed and verified)

Description:
CHIP Secured Installer

Version:
1.0.7.2

MD5:
266320c2471b966fb1fe588820b67222

SHA-1:
982f490360edbcf80557e3c2a37d9edc51ed95cd

SHA-256:
80e20d7b319ef9605f7b4569474ce99b5370aad02e70fd8aa8fd725bed58d0ac

Scanner detections:
5 / 68

Status:
Potentially 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:
4/25/2024 6:18:49 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Avira AntiVirus
TR/Dropper.Gen
7.11.30.172

Bkav FE
W32.HfsAdware
1.3.0.6379

Dr.Web
Adware.Downware.10929
9.0.1.05190

ESET NOD32
Win32/DownloadSponsor.C potentially unwanted application
7.0.302.0

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Covus.Bundler
15.6.7.14

File size:
1.1 MB (1,203,488 bytes)

Product version:
1.0.7.2

Copyright:
Copyright © 2015 Chip Digital GmbH

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
Covus

Language:
German (Germany)

Digital Signature
Signed by:
CHIP Digital GmbH

Authority:
DigiCert Inc

Valid from:
1/7/2015 12:00:00 AM

Valid to:
2/24/2016 12:00:00 PM

Subject:
CN=CHIP Digital GmbH, O=CHIP Digital GmbH, L=München, S=Bavaria, C=DE

Issuer:
CN=DigiCert SHA2 Assured ID Code Signing CA, OU=www.digicert.com, O=DigiCert Inc, C=US

Serial number:
01A0C3E3BC069F71B464AAD34063E209

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
2/11/2015 3:35:48 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
11.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:Zq5TfcdHj4fmbx2qs0MmV0VMXfGqcnUsG0Eh3lWaUnfnnO/sWvC:ZUTsamlxc3nhwlonnO/m

Entry address:
0x1A6890

Entry point:
60, BE, 00, 30, 55, 00, 8D, BE, 00, E0, EA, FF, 57, EB, 0B, 90, 8A, 06, 46, 88, 07, 47, 01, DB, 75, 07, 8B, 1E, 83, EE, FC, 11, DB, 72, ED, B8, 01, 00, 00, 00, 01, DB, 75, 07, 8B, 1E, 83, EE, FC, 11, DB, 11, C0, 01, DB, 73, 0B, 75, 28, 8B, 1E, 83, EE, FC, 11, DB, 72, 1F, 48, 01, DB, 75, 07, 8B, 1E, 83, EE, FC, 11, DB, 11, C0, EB, D4, 01, DB, 75, 07, 8B, 1E, 83, EE, FC, 11, DB, 11, C9, EB, 52, 31, C9, 83, E8, 03, 72, 11, C1, E0, 08, 8A, 06, 46, 83, F0, FF, 74, 75, D1, F8, 89, C5, EB, 0B, 01, DB, 75, 07, 8B...
 
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Entropy:
6.9565

Packer / compiler:
UPX v0.89.6 - v1.02 / v1.05 -v1.24

Code size:
336 KB (344,064 bytes)

The file avast-free-antivirus.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

http://go.redirectingat.com/?id=92X363&site=techradar.com&xs=1&isjs=1&url=http://www.tr.downloads-hub.com/download/resolve/192&xguid=&xuuid=d337036f0dce43764480818fd84a4f70&xsessid=&xcreo=0&xed=0&sref=http://www.techradar.com/downloads/avast-free-antivirus&pref=https://.../&xtz=-60

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