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Picasa

Download Manager

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 picasa.exe, “Picasa ” by Download Manager has been detected as adware by 28 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the AirInstaller Download Manager installer. According to AVG, this software downloads additional adware offers during setup.
Publisher:
Download Manager   (signed by Download Manager)

Product:
Picasa

Description:
Picasa

Version:
2.0.7.4

MD5:
4bbac331cceb76e237983d08f99efcc8

SHA-1:
35cb739216a1e4e1253fe64df6af5f8f1d4c3c5e

SHA-256:
188b1f9f9efe5c10eae07a08cba703916febee85f8772859a717527f95df44be

Scanner detections:
28 / 68

Status:
Adware

Description:
This is an installer which may bundle legitimate applications with offers for additional 3rd-party applications that may be unwanted by the user. While the installer contains an 'opt-out' feature this is not set be defult and is usually overlooked.

Analysis date:
4/26/2024 12:55:00 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler.AirInstaller.1
6496598

Agnitum Outpost
PUA.AirAdInstaller
7.1.1

Avira AntiVirus
ADWARE/Adware.Gen
7.11.206.52

AVG
Potentially harmful program Skodna.Downloader.CX
2014.0.4257

Bitdefender
Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler.AirInstaller.1
1.0.20.150

Comodo Security
Application.Win32.AirInstaller.JSUE
20904

Dr.Web
Trojan.SMSSend.5095
9.0.1.05190

Emsisoft Anti-Malware
Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler.AirInstaller
9.0.0.4799

ESET NOD32
Win32/AirAdInstaller.A potentially unwanted application
7.0.302.0

F-Prot
W32/S-088c33da
v6.4.7.1.166

F-Secure
Riskware.Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler
5.13.68

G Data
Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler.AirInstaller
15.1.25

IKARUS anti.virus
not-a-virus:AdWare.AirAdInstaller
t3scan.1.8.6.0

K7 AntiVirus
Unwanted-Program
13.193.14818

Kaspersky
not-a-virus:AdWare.Win32.AirAdInstaller
15.0.0.543

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.AirAdInstaller
v2015.01.30.10

MicroWorld eScan
Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler.AirInstaller.1
16.0.0.90

NANO AntiVirus
Riskware.Win32.AirAdInstaller.dafqnz
0.30.0.65070

Norman
Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler.AirInstaller.1
03.12.2014 13:20:04

nProtect
Trojan-Clicker/W32.AirAdInstaller.773032.E
15.01.30.01

Panda Antivirus
Generic Suspicious
15.01.30.10

Quick Heal
Adware.AirAdInstaller.I3
1.15.14.00

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Installer.Air Software
15.1.30.21

Rising Antivirus
PE:PUF.Airinstall!1.9C4C
23.00.65.15128

Sophos
PUA 'AirInstaller'
5.09

Vba32 AntiVirus
AdWare.AirAdInstaller
3.12.26.3

VIPRE Antivirus
Threat.4150696
36666

Zillya! Antivirus
Adware.AirAdInstaller.Win32.178
2.0.0.2049

File size:
754.9 KB (773,032 bytes)

Product version:
2.0.7.4

Copyright:
(c) Download Manager

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\picasa.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Download Manager

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
6/7/2013 8:00:00 PM

Valid to:
6/8/2014 7:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Download Manager, OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O=Download Manager, L=Vancouver, 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:
428E8B7C1AC548D083F4D3A0C5FDAF4C

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
5/23/2014 12:20:07 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
10.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:ABhyRKF9Je6ouxOtgwl0VgcLD7cFM1MY1S1jeqcpfpu9ljNq3jbGNDmUAMNKoNNd:YoKF9JlCWTHDcFhY1SuUlNWjbqmUjNbh

Entry address:
0x25C418

Entry point:
60, E8, 00, 00, 00, 00, 58, 05, 5A, 0B, 00, 00, 8B, 30, 03, F0, 2B, C0, 8B, FE, 66, AD, C1, E0, 0C, 8B, C8, 50, AD, 2B, C8, 03, F1, 8B, C8, 57, 51, 49, 8A, 44, 39, 06, 88, 04, 31, 75, F6, 2B, C0, AC, 8B, C8, 80, E1, F0, 24, 0F, C1, E1, 0C, 8A, E8, AC, 0B, C8, 51, 02, CD, BD, 00, FD, FF, FF, D3, E5, 59, 58, 8B, DC, 8D, A4, 6C, 90, F1, FF, FF, 51, 2B, C9, 51, 51, 8B, CC, 51, 66, 8B, 17, C1, E2, 0C, 52, 57, 83, C1, 04, 51, 50, 83, C1, 04, 56, 51, E8, 5E, 00, 00, 00, 8B, E3, 5E, 5A, 2B, C0, 89, 04, 32, B4, 10...
 
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Entropy:
7.9355

Packer / compiler:
ASPack v1.08.04

Code size:
1.6 MB (1,729,024 bytes)

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

http://files.downloadd.org/get/click/ntm8p09r/?d=http://downloadd.org/.../picasa.exe&n=Picasa&key=b88bdc775b9c07d0c37dcc9470616682052273640ad7bc9c4da8ef90745c2581&affiliate_image=&product_image=http://downloadd.org/.../picasa.png&sid=picasa&filename=Picasa

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