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avg-free-antivirus.exe

AVG Free 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-free-antivirus.exe, “AVG Free Antivirus ” by Air Software has been detected as adware by 31 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the AirInstaller Download Manager installer. The setup program uses the InstallCore engine which may bundle additional software offers including toolbars and browser extensions.

File name:

Publisher:

AirInstaller (signed by Air Software)

Product:

AVG Free Antivirus

Description:

AVG Free Antivirus

Version:

2.0.4.87

MD5:

18f9137a76a082f71a02e7c80a0c5fe2

SHA-1:

ce54ea9334c400be0aff378b90d8ea3c3bfe3b6c

SHA-256:

90cc1fe262761c6e3a1ff6df4b117136a945dc5b23ff70721717178fd8e5b439

Scanner detections:

31 / 68

Status:

Adware

Explanation:

Uses the InstallCore download manager to install additional potentially unwanted software which may include extensions such as DealPly and various toolbars.

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:

4/18/2024 4:53:28 PM UTC (today)

Scan engine

Detection

Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware

Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler.AirInstaller.4

6210226

Agnitum Outpost

PUA.AirAd

7.1.1

AhnLab V3 Security

PUP/Win32.AirAdInstaller

2015.04.02

avast!

Win32:Adware-CAH [PUP]

2014.9-150401

AVG

Adware InstallCore.QM

2014.0.4311

Bitdefender

Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler.AirInstaller.4

1.0.20.455

Bkav FE

W32.HfsAdware

1.3.0.6379

Comodo Security

Application.Win32.AirAdInstaller.A

17934

Dr.Web

Trojan.SMSSend.4783

9.0.1.091

Emsisoft Anti-Malware

Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler.AirInstaller

9.0.0.4799

ESET NOD32

Win32/AirAdInstaller.A potentially unwanted application

9.7.0.302.0

F-Prot

W32/A-8f9a0f53

v6.4.7.1.166

F-Secure

Riskware.Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler

5.13.68

G Data

Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler.AirInstaller

15.4.25

herdProtect (fuzzy)

variant of setup.exe (Adware)

2015.7.6.10

IKARUS anti.virus

PUA.AirAdInstaller

t3scan.1.8.9.0

K7 AntiVirus

Unwanted-Program

13.202.15452

Kaspersky

not-a-virus:AdWare.Win32.AirAdInstaller

15.0.0.543

Malwarebytes

PUP.Optional.AirAdInstaller

v2015.04.01.03

MicroWorld eScan

Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler.AirInstaller.4

16.0.0.273

NANO AntiVirus

Riskware.Win32.AirAdInstaller.cwbyev

0.30.8.659

nProtect

Trojan-Clicker/W32.AirAdInstaller.862632.B

15.04.01.01

Panda Antivirus

Adware/AirInstaller

15.04.01.03

Qihoo 360 Security

HEUR/Malware.QVM01.Gen

1.0.0.1015

Quick Heal

Adware.AirAdInstaller.I3

4.15.14.00

Reason Heuristics

DownloadManager.Bundler.Air Software

15.4.1.15

Rising Antivirus

PE:PUF.Airinstall!1.9C4C

23.00.65.15330

Sophos

AirInstaller

4.98

Vba32 AntiVirus

AdWare.AirAdInstaller

3.12.26.3

VIPRE Antivirus

Iminent

27420

Zillya! Antivirus

Adware.AirAdInstaller.Win32.106

2.0.0.2123

File size:

842.4 KB (862,632 bytes)

Product version:

2.0.4.87

Original file name:

setup.exe

File type:

Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:

AirInstaller Download Manager

Language:

English (United States)

Common path:

C:\users\{user}\downloads\avg-free-antivirus.exe

Digital Signature

Signed by:

Air Software

Authority:

VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:

1/24/2013 4:00:00 PM

Valid to:

3/26/2015 4:59:59 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:

1/31/2014 2:09:11 PM

OS version:

5.1

OS bitness:

Win32

Subsystem:

Windows GUI

Linker version:

10.0

CTPH (ssdeep):

12288:o3T1QMZL3JVgzqK+Qw9mBTxRJz09wovCUm7xxvf3uwddNXUANwwJmZxLXajp:i1FL5yzp+QdTM6UyxvvRDU8wfDOp

Entry address:

0x2693D0

Entry point:

60, BE, 00, 60, 5A, 00, 8D, BE, 00, B0, E5, 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, 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... 
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Entropy:

7.8859

Packer / compiler:

UPX 2.90LZMA

Code size:

784 KB (802,816 bytes)

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

http://files.installs.co/get/click/nnj1rgkh/?d=http://downloadd.org/.../avg.exe&n=AVG Free Antivirus&key=be9decc1c469dcfc27f31ff723a8512dd224f4b8df62db2f83ba2c6f0d65cd9f&product_image=http://downloadd.org/.../avg.png&sid=AVG&filename=avg-free-antivirus

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