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Download Assistant

This is part of the Air Installer, a download manager which bundles applications with offers for additional 3rd party software, mostly unwanted adware, and may be installed with minimal consent. The application setup.exe by Download Assistant has been detected as adware by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. The program is a setup application that uses the AirInstaller Download Manager installer. It is also typically executed from the user's temporary directory. The file has been seen being downloaded from securedownload.browserstation.com.
Publisher:
Download Assistant  (signed and verified)

Product:
Avast Antivirus Free

Version:
3.0.0.154

MD5:
95b09929303ae5cf1afe1f232425e07f

SHA-1:
030922b0dcabff4d57b69fbb2b0943d1099bfe14

SHA-256:
3c4a195fc21795c473976bd26f61284ab7aa878b85b0c686344bc9a9f964bfe8

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Adware

Note:
Our current pool of anti-malware engines have not currently detected this file, however based on our own detection heuristics we feel that this file is unwanted.

Description:
This 'download manager' is also considered bundleware, a utility designed to download software (possibly legitimate or opensource) and bundle it with a number of optional offers including ad-supported utilities, toolbars, shopping comparison tools and browser extensions.

Analysis date:
5/11/2025 2:35:25 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Air Software.Download.Bundler (M)
16.4.11.13

File size:
1.1 MB (1,136,256 bytes)

Product version:
3.0.0.154

Copyright:
(c) Download Assistant

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
AirInstaller Download Manager

Language:
Language Neutral

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\temp\{random}.tmp\uqzz0rrf\setup.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Download Assistant

Authority:
Symantec Corporation

Valid from:
4/6/2016 1:00:00 AM

Valid to:
7/7/2017 12:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=Download Assistant, O=Download Assistant, L=Victoria, S=British Columbia, C=CA

Issuer:
CN=Symantec Class 3 SHA256 Code Signing CA, OU=Symantec Trust Network, O=Symantec Corporation, C=US

Serial number:
3F4D313EECE411E33755867DDBC09D69

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
1/30/2013 2:21:56 PM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.25

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:IxGnrUls/mQvniUdK13NlRKbYWsWB2fgQ4BLzubrd0EJak4:tA+hXQ3rR6Y542fyL63yEJak4

Entry address:
0x113BC

Entry point:
55, 8B, EC, 83, C4, A4, 53, 56, 57, 33, C0, 89, 45, C4, 89, 45, C0, 89, 45, A4, 89, 45, D0, 89, 45, C8, 89, 45, CC, 89, 45, D4, 89, 45, D8, 89, 45, EC, B8, 2C, 00, 41, 00, E8, E8, 51, FF, FF, 33, C0, 55, 68, 9E, 1A, 41, 00, 64, FF, 30, 64, 89, 20, 33, D2, 55, 68, 5A, 1A, 41, 00, 64, FF, 32, 64, 89, 22, A1, 48, 5B, 41, 00, E8, 16, D8, FF, FF, E8, 65, D3, FF, FF, 80, 3D, DC, 2A, 41, 00, 00, 74, 0C, E8, 2B, D9, FF, FF, 33, C0, E8, 80, 32, FF, FF, 8D, 55, EC, 33, C0, E8, E2, A3, FF, FF, 8B, 55, EC, B8, 50, 86...
 
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Entropy:
6.9597

Developed / compiled with:
Microsoft Visual C++

Code size:
65.5 KB (67,072 bytes)

The file setup.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

http://securedownload.browserstation.com/v2/click/fosyeuol/?d=http://antivirus-free.net/.../Avast2016.exe&n=Avast Antivirus Free&key=630cd95ab0df9aa3d5cca7c58c3597a3ef5c0a702ba87f6f6ee7a4fabb1f01dd&affiliate_image=http://antivirus-free.net/.../Avast_logo_noWordsSm.png&product_image=http://antivirus-free.net/.../Avast_logo.png&filename=Avast_Setup&sid=avast,uk,avast! free

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