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This adware bundler is distributed through Adknowledge's advertising supported software managers. The application player-firefox.exe, “Premium Installer ” by INSTALL DOT EXE has been detected as adware by 34 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 the free Mozilla Firefox 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:
f1cb21c7716f1cc9aed7b7ab4c778f2b

SHA-1:
2ac92c8eeee542499b6abb705d062334cbb603b0

SHA-256:
5d653d9f6b66691a584b5f29af02e5cdc4ffbdf401a0211976dd50bd95e082d6

Scanner detections:
34 / 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:
4/27/2024 12:31:54 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler.OptimumInstaller.1
911

Agnitum Outpost
PUA.Agent
7.1.1

AhnLab V3 Security
PUP/Win32.IBryte
2014.02.24

Avira AntiVirus
Adware/PremInstall.A
7.11.133.108

avast!
Win32:Adware-gen [Adw]
2014.9-140420

AVG
Skodna.Generic
2015.0.3500

Baidu Antivirus
Adware.Win32.iBryte
4.0.3.1477

Bitdefender
Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler.OptimumInstaller.1
1.0.20.1100

Comodo Security
ApplicUnwnt
17838

Dr.Web
Adware.Downware.2165
9.0.1.0109

ESET NOD32
Win32/AdWare.iBryte (variant)
8.9461

Fortinet FortiGate
Riskware/IBryte
7/7/2014

F-Prot
W32/Backdoor2.HTKO
v6.4.7.1.166

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

G Data
Win32.Application.OptimumInstaller
14.4.24

herdProtect (fuzzy)
variant of wrc_4_fia_world_rally_championship-blackbox.exe (Adware)
2014.7.7.9

IKARUS anti.virus
Win32.AdWare
t3scan.2.2.29

K7 AntiVirus
Adware
13.176.11595

Kaspersky
HEUR:Trojan.Win32.Generic
14.0.0.3995

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.OptimumInstaller.A
v2014.04.19.02

McAfee
Artemis!CF397C4B92CB
5600.7077

MicroWorld eScan
Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler.OptimumInstaller.1
15.0.0.660

NANO AntiVirus
Trojan.Win32.Downware.ctroza
0.28.0.57630

nProtect
Trojan-Clicker/W32.iBryte.1666856
14.07.09.03

Panda Antivirus
Trj/Genetic.gen
14.07.07.09

Qihoo 360 Security
Win32/Trojan.e6d
1.0.0.1015

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Installer.INSTALLDOTEXE.R
14.8.8.3

Rising Antivirus
PE:PUF.PremiumInstaller!1.9F73
23.00.65.14417

Sophos
iBryte Optimum Installer
4.97

Total Defense
Win32/Tnega.SRDMYD
37.0.10849

Trend Micro House Call
TROJ_GEN.F47V0215
7.2.188

Vba32 AntiVirus
SScope.Malware-Cryptor.iBryte
3.12.24.3

VIPRE Antivirus
Trojan.Win32.Generic
26790

Zillya! Antivirus
Trojan.Buzus.Win32.120198
2.0.0.1828

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-firefox.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
INSTALL DOT EXE

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
10/3/2013 7:00:00 PM

Valid to:
9/20/2014 6:59:59 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 11:30:12 AM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:gtohBldpQEQyy8W/kcZsRjjcMb+RjuEzpZ3:g2vl88W/UXb+Rju63

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:
6.4343

Code size:
393 KB (402,432 bytes)

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