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DriverAssist

AB eCommerce Inc

The application driverassist.exe by AB eCommerce Inc has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 2 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) installer. The file has been seen being downloaded from driveractivator.com and multiple other hosts.
Publisher:
SafeBytes  (signed by AB eCommerce Inc)

Product:
DriverAssist

Version:
1.0

MD5:
6c29d3d2689a0bbc6ab72d2f159efc2d

SHA-1:
14ddedfa42c2e70950c3d5679d9a5b41842d4e60

SHA-256:
9f690b66fcbbd278e371d92edde809f41f6fb564269f8ac7f66aae7ac868ae62

Scanner detections:
2 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Analysis date:
8/10/2025 12:09:53 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.PCActivator.Optional.Installer.Meta (L)
16.3.17.9

Trend Micro House Call
Suspicious_GEN.F47V0327
7.2.233

File size:
8.8 MB (9,204,120 bytes)

Product version:
1.0

Copyright:
Copyright (c) 2013 SafeBytes

Trademarks:
Copyright (c) 2013 SafeBytes

Original file name:
Setup.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)

Language:
English (United States)

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
AB eCommerce Inc

Authority:
DigiCert Inc

Valid from:
7/3/2014 1:00:00 AM

Valid to:
6/9/2015 1:00:00 PM

Subject:
CN=AB eCommerce Inc, O=AB eCommerce Inc, L=Montreal, S=Quebec, C=CA

Issuer:
CN=DigiCert Assured ID Code Signing CA-1, OU=www.digicert.com, O=DigiCert Inc, C=US

Serial number:
0975652C10C0C9CDD0398B66A18B5FD1

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
12/25/2013 5:03:33 AM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
196608:tKyjrTobgcH7Ttm4MpE78x1vF351FgV0GLbyrMw+H/nRsLc:tKyXyg+tmE78X551FfGe72/nRsI

Entry address:
0x37B3

Entry point:
81, EC, D4, 02, 00, 00, 53, 55, 56, 57, 6A, 20, 33, ED, 5E, 89, 6C, 24, 14, C7, 44, 24, 10, A8, AE, 40, 00, 89, 6C, 24, 1C, FF, 15, 2C, 80, 40, 00, 68, 01, 80, 00, 00, FF, 15, 34, 81, 40, 00, 55, FF, 15, B8, 82, 40, 00, 6A, 08, A3, F8, CA, 42, 00, E8, 9D, 31, 00, 00, A3, 44, CA, 42, 00, 55, 8D, 44, 24, 34, 68, B4, 02, 00, 00, 50, 55, 68, E0, 26, 42, 00, FF, 15, 7C, 81, 40, 00, 68, F4, AF, 40, 00, 68, 40, BA, 42, 00, E8, 55, 2C, 00, 00, FF, 15, 2C, 81, 40, 00, BB, 00, 70, 43, 00, 50, 53, E8, 43, 2C, 00, 00...
 
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Entropy:
7.9987

Packer / compiler:
Nullsoft install system v2.x

Code size:
25.5 KB (26,112 bytes)

The file driverassist.exe has been seen being distributed by the following 2 URLs.

http://driveractivator.com/.../driverassist.php

http://www.driveractivator.com/.../DriverAssist.exe

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