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This adware bundler is distributed through Adknowledge's advertising supported software managers. The application player-chrome.exe, “Premium Installer ” by INSTALL DOT EXE has been detected as adware by 37 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the Adknowledge Fusion installer. This program installs potentially unwanted software on your PC at the same time as the software you are trying to install, without adequate consent. With this installer, users are expecting to download Google's Chrome web browser but before that occurs they may be presented with additional offers, mostly potentially unwanted software or adware.
Publisher:
Premium Installer   (signed by INSTALL DOT EXE)

Product:
Premium Installer

Description:
Premium Installer

Version:
2.4.8.1

MD5:
a31ebd0847aa1cd625a24078a96f500e

SHA-1:
14f3c0b644dd0b07dd2a6a4dcb5bedaf52f85540

SHA-256:
3cefa888ac927eaacfa7d347dc8446d71ceb67044104269fe8c6ed3c13cf9181

Scanner detections:
37 / 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:
4/20/2024 1:33:40 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler.OptimumInstaller.1
887

Agnitum Outpost
PUA.Agent
7.1.1

AhnLab V3 Security
Trojan/Win32.Buzus
2014.02.09

Avira AntiVirus
ADWARE/Adware.Gen7
7.11.137.238

avast!
Adware-gen [Adw]
140813-1

AVG
Adware Skodna.Generic.AUX
2014.0.4015

Baidu Antivirus
Adware.Win32.iBryte
4.0.3.1491

Bitdefender
Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler.OptimumInstaller.1
1.0.20.1220

Clam AntiVirus
Win.Adware.Agent-7113
0.98/19296

Comodo Security
Application.Win32.iBryte.R
17759

Dr.Web
Trojan.Packed.25441
9.0.1.05190

Emsisoft Anti-Malware
Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler.OptimumInstaller
9.0.0.4324

ESET NOD32
Win32/AdWare.iBryte.Q application
7.0.302.0

Fortinet FortiGate
Riskware/IBryte
9/1/2014

F-Prot
W32/Backdoor2.HTKO
v6.4.7.1.166

F-Secure
Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler
11.2014-01-09_2

G Data
Win32.Application.OptimumInstaller
14.9.24

IKARUS anti.virus
Trojan.Win32.Buzus
t3scan.2.2.29

K7 AntiVirus
Adware
13.176.11595

Kaspersky
HEUR:Trojan.Win32.Generic
14.0.0.3320

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.OptimumInstaller.A
v2014.09.01.02

McAfee
Artemis!5032EA165D47
5600.7021

MicroWorld eScan
Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler.OptimumInstaller.1
15.0.0.732

NANO AntiVirus
Trojan.Win32.Buzus.ctabuf
0.28.0.57630

nProtect
Trojan/W32.Buzus.1708840
14.05.12.01

Panda Antivirus
PUP/iBryte
14.09.01.02

Qihoo 360 Security
HEUR/Malware.QVM10.Gen
1.0.0.1015

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Installer.INSTALLDOTEXE.N
14.9.1.2

Rising Antivirus
PE:PUF.PremiumInstaller!1.9F73
23.00.65.14830

Sophos
iBryte Optimum Installer
4.97

SUPERAntiSpyware
Trojan.Agent/Gen-Nullo[Short]
10387

Total Defense
Win32/Tnega.SRDMYD
37.0.10845

Trend Micro House Call
TROJ_GEN.F47V0127
7.2.244

Trend Micro
TROJ_BUZUS_DD300467.UVPA
10.465.01

Vba32 AntiVirus
SScope.Malware-Cryptor.iBryte
3.12.24.3

VIPRE Antivirus
Optimum Installer
26304

Zillya! Antivirus
Trojan.Buzus.Win32.120254
2.0.0.1775

File size:
1.6 MB (1,691,944 bytes)

Product version:
2.4.8.1

Copyright:
Copyright (C) 2013 Premium Installer

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:
INSTALL DOT EXE

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
10/3/2013 5:00:00 PM

Valid to:
9/20/2014 4:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=INSTALL DOT EXE, OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O=INSTALL DOT EXE, 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:
4C8303B332693FCF64E1E7DFD7841493

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
2/8/2014 5:16:15 AM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:4bwKMY1mInITHHHvqYzfx5bX5EPuvUFGgDfiMhIgz7BYOIOLoBatIqS4T:4bwKMYoII7v/X5EeMBFIHyIqSg

Entry address:
0x39175

Entry point:
E8, 5A, 8E, 00, 00, E9, 78, FE, FF, FF, 6A, 0C, 68, E0, 8C, 47, 00, E8, C1, 35, 00, 00, 83, 65, E4, 00, 8B, 75, 08, 3B, 35, 98, 7C, 59, 00, 77, 22, 6A, 04, E8, 5D, 90, 00, 00, 59, 83, 65, FC, 00, 56, E8, BF, 9D, 00, 00, 59, 89, 45, E4, C7, 45, FC, FE, FF, FF, FF, E8, 09, 00, 00, 00, 8B, 45, E4, E8, CD, 35, 00, 00, C3, 6A, 04, E8, 40, 8F, 00, 00, 59, C3, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 83, 3D, D4, 68, 59, 00, 00, 75, 18, E8, 95, 83, 00, 00, 6A, 1E, E8, BD, 81, 00, 00, 68, FF, 00, 00, 00, E8, D7, 4C, 00, 00, 59, 59, A1...
 
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Entropy:
7.0966

Code size:
405 KB (414,720 bytes)

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