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 30 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:
692759ca29baa70d3c873b126e9abc96

SHA-1:
43231810da6495f22ca98ec522325ebcc817f02a

SHA-256:
40eaa8cee41c5e977eec783c4c31748470ee10e2f27bd9f1ba11bdd6ed287544

Scanner detections:
30 / 68

Status:
Adware

Explanation:
Uses the Solimba installer to bundle adware offers.

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:
4/26/2024 9:04:54 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Adware.Solimba.I
785

Agnitum Outpost
Adware.Solimba
7.1.1

Avira AntiVirus
APPL/Solimba.Gen
7.11.102.78

avast!
NSIS:Dmgr-C [PUP]
2014.9-141211

AVG
Downloader.Generic12
2015.0.3263

Bitdefender
Adware.Solimba.H
1.0.20.1725

Clam AntiVirus
WIN.Adware.Solimba-3
0.98/18155

Comodo Security
ApplicUnwnt
16927

Dr.Web
Adware.Downware.798
9.0.1.0345

Emsisoft Anti-Malware
Adware.Solimba
8.14.12.11.01

ESET NOD32
MSIL/Solimba (variant)
8.8793

Fortinet FortiGate
Riskware/Solimba.C
12/11/2014

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

F-Secure
Adware.Solimba.H
11.2014-11-12_5

G Data
Adware.Solimba
14.12.22

K7 AntiVirus
Riskware
13.172.9570

Kaspersky
not-a-virus:HEUR:WebToolbar.NSIS.Solimba
14.0.0.2812

Malwarebytes
PUP.AdBundler
v2014.12.11.01

McAfee
Artemis!C2351560214A
5600.6919

MicroWorld eScan
Adware.Solimba.H
15.0.0.1035

NANO AntiVirus
Trojan.Win32.Downware.celtiq
0.26.0.54404

nProtect
Adware.Solimba.I
13.06.09.02

Qihoo 360 Security
Win32/Virus.IM.ee1
1.0.0.1015

Quick Heal
AdWare.MSIL.Solimba.c (Not a Virus)
12.14.12.00

Reason Heuristics
PUP.SolimbaAplicacionesSL.Q
14.12.11.13

Sophos
DownloadMR
4.91

SUPERAntiSpyware
Trojan.Agent/Gen-MSIL
10184

Trend Micro House Call
TROJ_GEN.F47V0723
7.2.345

Vba32 AntiVirus
Downware.Morstar
3.12.24.3

VIPRE Antivirus
DownloadMR
21422

File size:
138.6 KB (141,896 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
Solimba DownloadMR

Language:
Language Neutral

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

Digital Signature
Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

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

Valid to:
5/15/2013 4:59:59 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 8:46:24 AM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.21

CTPH (ssdeep):
3072:hnOn7t7XpdpCCTg/sxFgJMeq8KgCz1jLFGc4dkVmye6jUq3:hKpdcCrTv8KJhjD4dkVmye6B

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:
7.2859

Code size:
34.5 KB (35,328 bytes)

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

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