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setup.exe

Media Player Classic HomeCinema Edition

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.

File name:

setup.exe

Publisher:

Download Assistant (signed and verified)

Product:

Media Player Classic HomeCinema Edition

Version:

3.0.0.153

MD5:

a2ee5c023229f826a09d647c0c69586f

SHA-1:

2003bf732c81fd6d4b20e5d2afe0ca5265f3a7ea

SHA-256:

8df860805503d0554fb94f83d05bc68f2eba1ce6ce4faa35e603ac915bd130e3

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 is an installer which may bundle legitimate applications with offers for additional 3rd-party applications that may be unwanted by the user. While the installer contains an 'opt-out' feature this is not set be defult and is usually overlooked.

Analysis date:

5/30/2024 8:24:59 PM UTC (today)

Scan engine

Detection

Engine version

Reason Heuristics

PUP.Air Software (M)

17.3.15.11

File size:

1.1 MB (1,137,400 bytes)

Product version:

3.0.0.153

File type:

Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:

AirInstaller Download Manager

Common path:

C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\temp\{random}.tmp\dayuohee\setup.exe

Digital Signature

Signed by:

Download Assistant

Authority:

Symantec Corporation

Valid from:

1/26/2016 3:00:00 AM

Valid to:

3/27/2017 2:59:59 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:

1278A8BBE7E82E656B1FD4779E9BC2F0

File PE Metadata

Compilation timestamp:

1/30/2013 5:21:56 PM

OS version:

5.0

OS bitness:

Win32

Subsystem:

Windows GUI

Linker version:

2.25

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... 
[+]

Entropy:

6.9632

Developed / compiled with:

Microsoft Visual C++

Code size:

65.5 KB (67,072 bytes)

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