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FUSION INSTALL

The Fusion Installer, which is a variant of Adknowledge's download manager bundles a number of ad-supported offerings in the installer. The application player-chrome.exe, “Fusion Install ” by FUSION INSTALL has been detected as adware by 40 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the Adknowledge Fusion installer. According to AVG, this software downloads additional adware offers during setup. The file has been seen being downloaded from secure.2-fusioninstall.com.
Publisher:
Fusion Install   (signed by FUSION INSTALL)

Product:
Fusion Install

Description:
Fusion Install

Version:
2.4.8.1

MD5:
17d719737ab6eaba38033a9ef729e7d6

SHA-1:
0a97ef39c41f586c2d5947fbec9032e7b8df8278

SHA-256:
88f9688f0aaa8e79c1601d0f4a018d89c0d047e1e58d64c835b399bb58955c64

Scanner detections:
40 / 68

Status:
Adware

Explanation:
This setup/installer bundles various adware components (toolbars, coupon extensions, ad-supported extensions and utility offers).

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:
4/19/2024 2:31:35 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Gen:Variant.Adware.Graftor.128117
372

Agnitum Outpost
PUA.Agent
7.1.1

AhnLab V3 Security
Trojan/Win32.Buzus
2014.02.09

Avira AntiVirus
Adware/iBryte.bxjr
7.11.141.184

avast!
Win32:PUP-gen [PUP]
2014.9-160129

AVG
Potentially harmful program Downloader
2017.0.2850

Baidu Antivirus
Adware.Win32.iBryte
4.0.3.16129

Bitdefender
Gen:Variant.Adware.Graftor.128117
1.0.20.145

Bkav FE
W32.HfsAdware
1.3.0.6379

Clam AntiVirus
Win.Adware.Ibryte-271
0.98/19168

Comodo Security
TrojWare.Win32.IBryte.S
17991

Dr.Web
Adware.Downware.2203
9.0.1.029

Emsisoft Anti-Malware
Gen:Variant.Adware.Graftor.128117
8.16.01.29.09

ESET NOD32
Win32/AdWare.iBryte.Q application
10.7.0.302.0

Fortinet FortiGate
Adware/IBryte
1/29/2016

F-Prot
W32/DomaIQ.G2.gen
v6.4.7.1.166

F-Secure
Riskware.Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler
11.2016-29-01_6

G Data
Win32.Application.OptimumInstaller
16.1.24

IKARUS anti.virus
Win32.AdWare
t3scan.1.6.1.0

K7 AntiVirus
Unwanted-Program
13.176.11684

Kaspersky
not-a-virus:AdWare.Win32.iBryte
14.0.0.743

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.OptimumInstaller.A
v2016.01.29.09

McAfee
Artemis!2DA27C0F7D24
5600.6506

MicroWorld eScan
Gen:Variant.Adware.Graftor.128117
17.0.0.87

NANO AntiVirus
Trojan.Win32.Downware.cuifvl
0.28.0.58491

Norman
Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler.OptimumInstaller.3
11.20160129

nProtect
Trojan-Clicker/W32.iBryte.555816
14.05.16.01

Panda Antivirus
PUP/iBryte
16.01.29.09

Qihoo 360 Security
HEUR/Malware.QVM10.Gen
1.0.0.1015

Quick Heal
Adware.iBryte.DK4
1.16.14.00

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Adknowledge.FUSIONINSTALL.Installer (M)
16.1.29.9

Rising Antivirus
PE:Malware.iBryte!6.14B5
23.00.65.16127

Sophos
iBryte Optimum Installer
4.98

SUPERAntiSpyware
Adware.OptimumInstaller/Variant
9356

Total Defense
Win32/Tnega.XGSDMHC
37.0.10943

Trend Micro House Call
TROJ_GEN.F47V0221
7.2.29

Trend Micro
TROJ_BUZUS_DD30051C.UVPA
10.465.29

Vba32 AntiVirus
suspected of Trojan.Downloader.gen.h
3.12.24.3

VIPRE Antivirus
Optimum Installer
27502

Zillya! Antivirus
Adware.iBryte.Win32.776
2.0.0.1791

File size:
546.8 KB (559,912 bytes)

Product version:
2.4.8.1

Copyright:
Copyright (C) 2013 Fusion Install

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
Adknowledge Fusion

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\player-chrome.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
FUSION INSTALL

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
10/3/2013 9:00:00 PM

Valid to:
9/20/2014 8:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=FUSION INSTALL, OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O=FUSION INSTALL, 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:
3615E290FD8B112928257EE3CD74B519

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
2/21/2014 9:34:29 AM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:ZR8Na/pd2cJjcWPmGi22eLqBi1MNLyms/2imvrq+g/RwIY4AkseyLU8sbPmB8pMD:ZR8NhWPmGi2aiBrKU8sbPmBrD

Entry address:
0x3D168

Entry point:
E8, C7, 60, 00, 00, E9, 78, FE, FF, FF, 6A, 0C, 68, A8, 9D, 47, 00, E8, CA, 09, 00, 00, 83, 65, E4, 00, 8B, 75, 08, 3B, 35, 18, 43, 48, 00, 77, 22, 6A, 04, E8, CA, 62, 00, 00, 59, 83, 65, FC, 00, 56, E8, 2C, 70, 00, 00, 59, 89, 45, E4, C7, 45, FC, FE, FF, FF, FF, E8, 09, 00, 00, 00, 8B, 45, E4, E8, D6, 09, 00, 00, C3, 6A, 04, E8, AD, 61, 00, 00, 59, C3, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 83, 3D, 74, 2F, 48, 00, 00, 75, 18, E8, 02, 56, 00, 00, 6A, 1E, E8, 2A, 54, 00, 00, 68, FF, 00, 00, 00, E8, 44, 21, 00, 00, 59, 59, A1...
 
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Entropy:
6.4365

Code size:
409.5 KB (419,328 bytes)

The file player-chrome.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

http://secure.2-fusioninstall.com/o/.../Player-Chrome.exe

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