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player-chrome.exe

FUSION INSTALLER

This adware bundler is distributed through Adknowledge's advertising supported software managers. The application player-chrome.exe, “Premium Installer ” by FUSION INSTALLER has been detected as adware by 33 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.

File name:

player-chrome.exe

Publisher:

Premium Installer (signed by FUSION INSTALLER)

Product:

Premium Installer

Description:

Premium Installer

Version:

2.4.8.1

MD5:

2e57e335c94bc441c85b2a9128b33db9

SHA-1:

3fa988d629026dd45d96f77bc1054566126b9746

SHA-256:

d6972e95f92ecf0b30877103e36fce89f3c7aa47f4bcb7e6284273bb7391132f

Scanner detections:

33 / 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 10:29:59 PM UTC (today)

Scan engine

Detection

Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware

Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler.OptimumInstaller.1

864

Agnitum Outpost

PUA.iBryte

7.1.1

AhnLab V3 Security

PUP/Win32.OptimumInstaller

2014.11.12

Avira AntiVirus

APPL/OpenInst.pepnf

7.11.184.152

avast!

Win32:IBryte-DB [PUP]

2014.9-140923

AVG

Adware Generic_s

2015.0.3342

Bitdefender

Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler.OptimumInstaller.1

1.0.20.1330

Clam AntiVirus

Win.Adware.Agent-22449

0.98/21411

Comodo Security

Application.Win32.IBryte.X

20057

Dr.Web

Trojan.Packed.27258

9.0.1.0266

Emsisoft Anti-Malware

Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler.OptimumInstaller

8.14.09.23.02

ESET NOD32

Win32/AdWare.iBryte.AL application

8.7.0.302.0

F-Prot

W32/A-3500492f

v6.4.7.1.166

F-Secure

Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler

11.2014-23-09_3

G Data

Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler.OptimumInstaller

14.9.24

herdProtect (fuzzy)

variant of trz4dac.tmp (Adware)

2014.12.5.18

IKARUS anti.virus

AdWare.AdPlugin

t3scan.1.8.3.0

K7 AntiVirus

Unwanted-Program

13.185.13980

Kaspersky

not-a-virus:AdWare.Win32.iBryte

14.0.0.3207

Malwarebytes

PUP.Optional.OptimumInstaller.A

v2014.09.23.02

McAfee

Generic-FAIN!9C941A3E0AA7

5600.6998

MicroWorld eScan

Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler.OptimumInstaller.1

15.0.0.798

NANO AntiVirus

Riskware.Win32.IBryte.dawyyd

0.28.6.62995

Panda Antivirus

PUP/iBryte

14.09.23.02

Qihoo 360 Security

Malware.QVM10.Gen

1.0.0.1015

Quick Heal

Adware.iBryte.DK4

9.14.14.00

Reason Heuristics

PUP.Installer.FUSIONINSTALLER.N

14.9.23.14

Rising Antivirus

PE:Malware.iBryte!6.197B

23.00.65.14921

Sophos

iBryte Optimum Installer

4.98

SUPERAntiSpyware

PUP.OptimumInstaller/Variant

10342

Vba32 AntiVirus

AdWare.iBryte

3.12.26.3

VIPRE Antivirus

Threat.4778314

34232

Zillya! Antivirus

Adware.iBryte.Win32.1023

2.0.0.1981

File size:

220.8 KB (226,088 bytes)

Product version:

2.4.8.1

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 INSTALLER

Authority:

VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:

10/3/2013 5:00:00 PM

Valid to:

9/20/2014 4:59:59 PM

Subject:

CN=FUSION INSTALLER, OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O=FUSION 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:

21DB9738D9B500E3DAF0570B5DA9E8B9

File PE Metadata

Compilation timestamp:

6/11/2014 12:43:44 PM

OS version:

5.0

OS bitness:

Win32

Subsystem:

Windows GUI

Linker version:

9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):

3072:9V8l1MN9SfDWnWfUsSK2haI/JiXDqHyC560J2YwR58ipB5:9webSiWfUs52kwH2mipB5

Entry address:

0x10647

Entry point:

E8, 20, 9D, 00, 00, E9, 78, FE, FF, FF, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 83, EC, 20, 8B, 45, 08, 56, 57, 6A, 08, 59, BE, 74, 83, 42, 00, 8D, 7D, E0, F3, A5, 89, 45, F8, 8B, 45, 0C, 5F, 89, 45, FC, 5E, 85, C0, 74, 0C, F6, 00, 08, 74, 07, C7, 45, F4, 00, 40, 99, 01, 8D, 45, F4, 50, FF, 75, F0, FF, 75, E4, FF, 75, E0, FF, 15, 40, 80, 42, 00, C9, C2, 08, 00, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 51, 53, 8B, 45, 0C, 83, C0, 0C, 89, 45, FC, 64, 8B, 1D, 00, 00, 00, 00, 8B, 03, 64, A3, 00, 00, 00, 00, 8B, 45, 08, 8B, 5D, 0C, 8B, 6D, FC, 8B, 63... 
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Entropy:

6.3613

Code size:

154 KB (157,696 bytes)

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