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avs media player.exe

AVS Media Player

Solimba Aplicaciones S.L.

This is the Solimba installer program that will bundle additional offers mostly including adware and various unwanted PC utilities. The application avs media player.exe by Solimba Aplicaciones S.L has been detected as adware by 35 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the Solimba DownloadMR installer. According to AVG, this software downloads additional adware offers during setup. The file has been seen being downloaded from d3uetqjthbb4x1.cloudfront.net.
Publisher:
Solimba Aplicaciones S.L.  (signed and verified)

Product:
AVS Media Player

Version:
2.1.816.0

MD5:
f20903116e58341d52ada121ee917a26

SHA-1:
302fbc6f57ef44e342608b922ffff32f7ec33cbe

SHA-256:
315b926b483054b0e409b736cb7d32dcb42b1e6aaf7d90bd84f0dc6f297e8e85

Scanner detections:
35 / 68

Status:
Adware

Explanation:
Uses the Solimba installer to bundle adware offers.

Description:
This is an installer which may bundle legitimate applications with offers for additional 3rd-party applications that may be unwanted by the user. While the installer contains an 'opt-out' feature this is not set be defult and is usually overlooked.

Analysis date:
4/24/2024 12:51:42 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Gen:Variant.Adware.Solimba.1
578

Agnitum Outpost
Adware.Solimba
7.1.1

AhnLab V3 Security
Win-PUP/Solimba
2015.02.08

Avira AntiVirus
APPL/Solimba.Gen
7.11.208.148

avast!
NSIS:Dmgr-C [PUP]
2014.9-150706

AVG
Downloader.Generic12
2016.0.3056

Baidu Antivirus
Adware.Win32.Solimba
4.0.3.1576

Bitdefender
Gen:Variant.Adware.Solimba.1
1.0.20.935

Bkav FE
W32.HfsAdware
1.3.0.6379

Clam AntiVirus
WIN.Adware.Solimba-3
0.98/21511

Comodo Security
ApplicUnwnt
20997

Dr.Web
Adware.Downware.798
9.0.1.0187

Emsisoft Anti-Malware
Gen:Variant.Adware.Solimba
8.15.07.06.07

ESET NOD32
MSIL/Solimba.C potentially unwanted (variant)
9.11139

Fortinet FortiGate
Riskware/Solimba.C
7/6/2015

F-Prot
W32/Downloader.DQ.gen
v6.4.7.1.166

F-Secure
Gen:Variant.Adware.Solimba.1
11.2015-06-07_2

G Data
Gen:Variant.Adware.Solimba
15.7.25

K7 AntiVirus
Unwanted-Program
13.193.14895

Kaspersky
not-a-virus:HEUR:WebToolbar.NSIS.Solimba
14.0.0.1776

Malwarebytes
PUP.AdBundler
v2015.07.06.07

McAfee
Artemis!83BEAFEB7CAD
5600.6712

MicroWorld eScan
Gen:Variant.Adware.Solimba.1
16.0.0.561

NANO AntiVirus
Trojan.Win32.Downware.celtiq
0.30.0.65070

nProtect
Trojan-Clicker/W32.Agent.141848
15.02.06.01

Panda Antivirus
Adware/Solimba
15.07.06.07

Qihoo 360 Security
Win32/Virus.IM.ee1
1.0.0.1015

Quick Heal
AdWare.MSIL.r3 (Not a Virus)
7.15.14.00

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Solimba.SolimbaAplicaciones.Bundler (M)
15.7.6.19

Rising Antivirus
PE:Trojan.Win32.Generic.150E3F44!353255236
23.00.65.15704

Sophos
Solimba Installer
4.98

SUPERAntiSpyware
Trojan.Agent/Gen-MSIL
9769

Trend Micro House Call
TROJ_GEN.F47V0723
7.2.187

Vba32 AntiVirus
Signed-AdWare.MSIL.SolimbaAplicacionesSL
3.12.26.3

VIPRE Antivirus
DownloadMR
37336

File size:
138.5 KB (141,848 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
Solimba DownloadMR

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\avs media player.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Solimba Aplicaciones S.L.

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
5/15/2011 7:00:00 PM

Valid to:
5/15/2013 6:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Solimba Aplicaciones S.L., OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O=Solimba Aplicaciones S.L., L=Badalona, S=Barcelona, C=ES

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:
450EE582E26020D5F7632F2BECC6C5BD

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
8/30/2011 10:46:24 AM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.21

CTPH (ssdeep):
3072:RnOn7t7XpdpCCTg/sxFgJMeq8Kc7CjkM/J38zFWdUvVNov4gfcmk5:RKpdcCrTv8KcmQM/eUqMXEmi

Entry address:
0x4327

Entry point:
55, 89, E5, 57, 56, 53, 81, EC, AC, 01, 00, 00, FF, 15, 74, 83, 42, 00, C7, 04, 24, 01, 80, 00, 00, FF, 15, 58, 84, 42, 00, 53, C7, 04, 24, 00, 00, 00, 00, FF, 15, 98, 84, 42, 00, 56, A3, 40, 6B, 42, 00, C7, 04, 24, 08, 00, 00, 00, E8, 8D, 3B, 00, 00, A3, 9C, 6B, 42, 00, 8D, 85, 84, FE, FF, FF, 57, C7, 44, 24, 10, 00, 00, 00, 00, C7, 44, 24, 0C, 60, 01, 00, 00, 89, 44, 24, 08, C7, 44, 24, 04, 00, 00, 00, 00, C7, 04, 24, 01, B3, 40, 00, FF, 15, AC, 84, 42, 00, 83, EC, 14, C7, 44, 24, 04, 02, B3, 40, 00, C7...
 
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Entropy:
7.2887

Code size:
34.5 KB (35,328 bytes)

The file avs media player.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

http://d3uetqjthbb4x1.cloudfront.net/2.1.816/.../AVS Media Player.exe

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