installer_minecraft_portuguese.exe

Minecraft

Download Assistant

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 installer_minecraft_portuguese.exe, “Minecraft ” by Download Assistant 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. With this installer, users are expecting to download Minecraft but before that occurs they may be presented with additional offers, mostly potentially unwanted software or adware.
Publisher:
Download Assistant   (signed by Download Assistant)

Product:
Minecraft

Description:
Minecraft

Version:
3.0.0.42

MD5:
3eb029231fb5e329e42937008703ed86

SHA-1:
fccc24cc411ca2fd36a5fc9dafffacda13f03e92

SHA-256:
89ec67780210c4a9b5d65ebb9936e785d9c839cbcb1120d0ab727d66d193a733

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:
5/29/2024 1:47:49 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Air Software.Download.Bundler (M)
16.7.10.3

File size:
922.3 KB (944,480 bytes)

Product version:
3.0.0.42

Copyright:
(c) Download Assistant

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\installer_minecraft_portuguese.exe

Digital Signature
Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
8/12/2014 9:00:00 PM

Valid to:
8/12/2016 8:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Download Assistant, O=Download Assistant, 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:
6BC405E8AC962C676F54816BCC4D4311

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
10/30/2014 1:55:53 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
10.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:ul60qMA5canSPzXdIBAp8AF1Loe8yjoFU30A/PdDzY:uNqMWcaWIO8AFmioFcf/PJzY

Entry address:
0x4CCED

Entry point:
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Code size:
468.5 KB (479,744 bytes)

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