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Free Youtube Downloader

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 mv.exe 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. The file has been seen being downloaded from download.down1oad.org.
Publisher:
DownloadAsst_New  (signed by Download Assistant)

Product:
Free Youtube Downloader

Version:
3.0.0.99

MD5:
17d73d89c896f705c042f575bac23221

SHA-1:
56352dc1bb2cffa0ca60d965aed128de451602ea

SHA-256:
c39a56c64f10ffbadc81ca264baad7d9560cb0f9b57b816cc1e0b933cef7a0dd

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:
11/9/2025 6:10:34 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Air Software (M)
16.7.22.20

File size:
960.2 KB (983,224 bytes)

Product version:
3.0.0.99

Copyright:
(c) DownloadAsst_New

Original file name:
Free_Youtube_Downloader.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
AirInstaller Download Manager

Language:
English (United States)

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Download Assistant

Authority:
Symantec Corporation

Valid from:
2/15/2015 5:00:00 PM

Valid to:
2/16/2016 4:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Download Assistant, O=Download Assistant, L=Victoria, S=British Columbia, C=CA

Issuer:
CN=Symantec Class 3 SHA256 Code Signing CA, OU=Symantec Trust Network, O=Symantec Corporation, C=US

Serial number:
3784E4CAC60231ED82FD7E8E845E8CE3

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
5/10/2015 5:33:37 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
10.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:7Oxfk9gewJPru/bSYFtyKf/dACWv7NXieZDHvMSMoW3a1:+J3PrKLJPWjNL7Eb9q1

Entry address:
0x126A

Entry point:
55, 8B, EC, 83, EC, 10, 53, 56, 57, 6A, 00, FF, 15, 08, 10, 49, 00, 8B, F8, 33, D2, 8B, CF, 8B, 5F, 3C, 03, DF, 2B, 05, 1C, 10, 40, 00, 89, 45, F4, 1B, D2, F7, D8, 89, 55, F8, 0F, B7, 73, 14, 83, D2, 00, F7, DA, 89, 75, F0, 52, 8B, 93, A0, 00, 00, 00, 50, 8B, 44, 1E, 24, 03, 05, 28, 10, 40, 00, 50, FF, B3, A4, 00, 00, 00, E8, 88, FD, FF, FF, 8B, 54, 1E, 28, 83, C4, 10, A1, 28, 10, 40, 00, 2B, D0, 83, FA, 01, 76, 0D, 8B, 4C, 1E, 24, 03, C8, 03, CF, E8, F2, FE, FF, FF, A1, 20, 10, 40, 00, 83, C6, 40, 03, F3...
 
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Entropy:
7.0544

Developed / compiled with:
Microsoft Visual C++

Code size:
574.5 KB (588,288 bytes)

The file mv.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

http://download.down1oad.org/v2/click/80af325a/?d=http://down1oad.org/.../youtubedownloader.exe&n=Free Youtube Downloader&key=05b58a7b8daede5b6326792f7a6c4f31d41b542aaebbadc3a99eef366bed726e&affiliate_image=&product_image=http://down1oad.org/.../youtubedownloader.png&sid=youtubedownloader&filename=Free_Youtube_Downloader

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