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AVG AntiVirus

Air Software

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 avg antivirus.exe by Air Software has been detected as adware by 2 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the AirInstaller Download Manager installer. The file has been seen being downloaded from dl.yesdownloads.com.
Publisher:
AirInstaller Inc.  (signed by Air Software)

Product:
AVG AntiVirus

Version:
2.0.4.0

MD5:
28559d8ebeb4649618d849e9fadb10c6

SHA-1:
bab988a3938839c3613a9d2c5e9f72e9db5e4cc8

SHA-256:
2127702b371fab8da31449c0a70d7cecfd6ad75ce9bb9dd68370c6cd41566b0c

Scanner detections:
2 / 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:
4/25/2024 9:37:45 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

herdProtect (fuzzy)
variant of chrome.exe (Adware)
2014.4.25.10

Reason Heuristics
DownloadManager.AirSoftware.N
14.8.7.18

File size:
1.1 MB (1,114,536 bytes)

Product version:
2.0.4.0

Copyright:
(c) AirInstaller. All rights reserved.

Original file name:
AirInstaller.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
AirInstaller Download Manager

Language:
English (United States)

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Air Software

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
1/24/2013 7:00:00 PM

Valid to:
3/26/2015 7:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Air Software, OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O=Air Software, 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:
3AC786E09219DF82DA830E461D4FC39F

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
6/19/2013 12:48:52 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
10.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:1oqBJMLHYCDly/JxJ90gvRyvbCuAaqmHogrhZxkpzDJEmvfoy1+V2:1arYVRxJ9bvobCunogt81DJjp1p

Entry address:
0x24F820

Entry point:
60, BE, 00, 40, 54, 00, 8D, BE, 00, D0, EB, FF, 57, 83, CD, FF, EB, 10, 90, 90, 90, 90, 90, 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, EF, 75, 09, 8B, 1E, 83, EE, FC, 11, DB, 73, E4, 31, C9, 83, E8, 03, 72, 0D, C1, E0, 08, 8A, 06, 46, 83, F0, FF, 74, 74, 89, C5, 01, DB, 75, 07, 8B, 1E, 83, EE, FC, 11, DB, 11, C9, 01, DB, 75, 07, 8B, 1E, 83, EE, FC, 11, DB, 11, C9, 75, 20, 41, 01, DB, 75...
 
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Entropy:
7.7635

Packer / compiler:
UPX 2.90LZMA]

Code size:
1 MB (1,097,728 bytes)

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

http://dl.yesdownloads.com/.../avg_free_stb_all_2013_2899.exe

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