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DownloadManager.exe

Optimum Installer

This adware bundler is distributed through Adknowledge's advertising supported software managers. The application openoffice_setup.exe, “OpenOffice Setup ” by Optimum Installer 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 Adknowledge Fusion installer. With this installer, users are expecting to download the free Apache OpenOffice but before that occurs they may be presented with additional offers, mostly potentially unwanted software or adware.
Publisher:
ADK Apps  (signed by Optimum Installer)

Product:
DownloadManager.exe

Description:
OpenOffice Setup

Version:
2.1.18

MD5:
0e45cc7e04170e2fdd7ceeecb8e89886

SHA-1:
e35af8e82c70b775fcb519d9909ae709a5c6c358

SHA-256:
0f84e5a28c39ac54c0056c0c288f53dff601c2af2f0f6c81f6f31461d2feefab

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Adware

Explanation:
This installer bundles various adware prorgams that may include toolbars and web browser advertising injectors/extensions.

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:
4/23/2024 1:25:16 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Adknowledge.OptimumInstaller.Installer (M)
16.2.15.11

File size:
675.3 KB (691,496 bytes)

Product version:
2.1.18

Original file name:
Setup.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
Adknowledge Fusion

Language:
English (United States)

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Optimum Installer

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
10/11/2012 1:00:00 AM

Valid to:
11/7/2013 11:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Optimum Installer, OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O=Optimum Installer, L=Kansas City, S=Missouri, C=US

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:
7C5F27B776ADBBB7943F700066A490BF

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
1/25/2013 6:01:26 PM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:hvuUuvasXtvuhrbWgCLQW69V/LkTwETiYXAO8qY61Bm6JpbBVUpsO2:hvuDasXVuhrb6Qt9hkTwETiY786m2ws7

Entry address:
0x4E365

Entry point:
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Code size:
429 KB (439,296 bytes)

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