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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 35 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:
995b64528494a371fdbcdc28a6beff0d

SHA-1:
21f8125f52384f77e5f040c7e464a20be10a1004

SHA-256:
6adf54ba67091e715d99dccaf15fbd98db01f290c39b520e7e2271be6782d362

Scanner detections:
35 / 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:
5/7/2024 3:39:46 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler.OptimumInstaller.1
896

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!
Malware-gen
2014.9-140822

AVG
Adware Skodna.Generic.AVJ
2014.0.3986

Bitdefender
Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler.OptimumInstaller.1
1.0.20.1170

Clam AntiVirus
Win.Adware.Agent-7113
0.98/19301

Comodo Security
Application.Win32.iBryte.R
17759

Dr.Web
Adware.Downware.2165
9.0.1.05190

ESET NOD32
Win32/AdWare.iBryte.Q application
7.0.302.0

Fortinet FortiGate
Riskware/IBryte
8/22/2014

F-Prot
W32/Backdoor2.HTKO
v6.4.7.1.166

F-Secure
Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler
11.2014-22-08_6

G Data
Win32.Application.OptimumInstaller
14.8.24

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

K7 AntiVirus
Adware
13.176.11595

Kaspersky
HEUR:Trojan.Win32.Generic
14.0.0.3365

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.OptimumInstaller.A
v2014.08.22.11

McAfee
Artemis!5032EA165D47
5600.7030

MicroWorld eScan
Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler.OptimumInstaller.1
15.0.0.702

NANO AntiVirus
Trojan.Win32.Buzus.ctabuf
0.28.0.57630

nProtect
Trojan/W32.Buzus.1708840
14.05.12.01

Panda Antivirus
PUP/iBryte
14.08.22.11

Qihoo 360 Security
HEUR/Malware.QVM10.Gen
1.0.0.1015

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Installer.INSTALLDOTEXE.N
14.8.22.23

Rising Antivirus
PE:PUF.PremiumInstaller!1.9F73
23.00.65.14820

Sophos
iBryte Optimum Installer
4.97

SUPERAntiSpyware
Trojan.Agent/Gen-Nullo[Short]
10405

Total Defense
Win32/Tnega.SRDMYD
37.0.10845

Trend Micro House Call
TROJ_GEN.F47V0127
7.2.234

Trend Micro
TROJ_BUZUS_DD300467.UVPA
10.465.22

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:
530.3 KB (543,016 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:
2/14/2014 9:30:12 AM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:2tohBldpQEQyy8W/kcZsRjjcMb+RjuEzpIO:22vl88W/UXb+RjuHO

Entry address:
0x35E39

Entry point:
E8, BB, 8D, 00, 00, E9, 78, FE, FF, FF, 6A, 0C, 68, 60, 5D, 47, 00, E8, 41, 36, 00, 00, 83, 65, E4, 00, 8B, 75, 08, 3B, 35, 1C, 03, 48, 00, 77, 22, 6A, 04, E8, BE, 8F, 00, 00, 59, 83, 65, FC, 00, 56, E8, 20, 9D, 00, 00, 59, 89, 45, E4, C7, 45, FC, FE, FF, FF, FF, E8, 09, 00, 00, 00, 8B, 45, E4, E8, 4D, 36, 00, 00, C3, 6A, 04, E8, A1, 8E, 00, 00, 59, C3, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 83, 3D, 74, EF, 47, 00, 00, 75, 18, E8, F2, 82, 00, 00, 6A, 1E, E8, 1A, 81, 00, 00, 68, FF, 00, 00, 00, E8, E3, 4D, 00, 00, 59, 59, A1...
 
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Entropy:
6.4348

Code size:
393 KB (402,432 bytes)

The file player-chrome.exe has been seen being distributed by the following 2 URLs.

https://install.fusioninstall.com/o/.../Player-Chrome.exe

http://secure.oinstaller.com/o/.../Player-Chrome.exe

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