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Driver Restore

Secure Installer Inc

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 driverrestore.exe by Secure Installer Inc has been detected as adware by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. The program is a setup application that uses the AirInstaller Download Manager installer.
Publisher:
383 Media, Inc.  (signed by Secure Installer Inc)

Product:
Driver Restore

Version:
2.8.3.0

MD5:
361e7bf93edbc884986e5f78e797d7d3

SHA-1:
1eaa7c51070dbf69e9b67feb6787ba5530a55fbe

SHA-256:
cdd43e4147e3956ff26ade0691ae892cdd11ace87a1f76a93da56028e5e7140b

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Adware

Note:
Our current pool of anti-malware engines have not currently detected this file, however based on our own detection heuristics we feel that this file is unwanted.

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:
5/13/2024 11:30:32 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Air Software (M)
17.2.28.14

File size:
7.3 MB (7,660,224 bytes)

Product version:
2.8.3.0

Copyright:
Copyright (c) 2013 383 Media, Inc.

Trademarks:
Copyright (c) 2013 383 Media, Inc.

Original file name:
DriverRestoreSetup.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
AirInstaller Download Manager

Language:
English (United States)

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Secure Installer Inc

Authority:
Symantec Corporation

Valid from:
10/27/2015 6:00:00 PM

Valid to:
11/18/2018 5:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Secure Installer Inc, O=Secure Installer Inc, L=Pleasanton, S=California, C=US, SERIALNUMBER=C3712890, OID.2.5.4.15=Private Organization, OID.1.3.6.1.4.1.311.60.2.1.2=California, OID.1.3.6.1.4.1.311.60.2.1.3=US

Issuer:
CN=Symantec Class 3 Extended Validation Code Signing CA - G2, OU=Symantec Trust Network, O=Symantec Corporation, C=US

Serial number:
22AA79DFC593B122228F38161FC4414F

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
7/24/2016 7:55:47 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

Entry address:
0x322B

Entry point:
81, EC, 84, 01, 00, 00, 53, 56, 57, 33, DB, 68, 01, 80, 00, 00, 89, 5C, 24, 18, C7, 44, 24, 10, 30, 91, 40, 00, 89, 5C, 24, 20, C6, 44, 24, 14, 20, FF, 15, 20, 71, 40, 00, FF, 15, AC, 70, 40, 00, 66, 3D, 06, 00, 74, 11, 53, E8, 94, 2F, 00, 00, 3B, C3, 74, 07, 68, 00, 0C, 00, 00, FF, D0, BE, 98, 72, 40, 00, 56, E8, 10, 2F, 00, 00, 56, FF, 15, A8, 70, 40, 00, 8D, 74, 06, 01, 38, 1E, 75, EB, 55, 6A, 09, E8, 67, 2F, 00, 00, 6A, 07, E8, 60, 2F, 00, 00, A3, 24, 37, 42, 00, FF, 15, 44, 70, 40, 00, 53, FF, 15, 88...
 
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Entropy:
7.9996  (probably packed)

Code size:
23.5 KB (24,064 bytes)

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