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FUSION INSTALL

The Fusion Installer, which is a variant of Adknowledge's download manager bundles a number of ad-supported offerings in the installer. The application setup.exe, “Fusion Install ” by FUSION INSTALL has been detected as adware by 15 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the Adknowledge Fusion installer.
Publisher:
Fusion Install   (signed by FUSION INSTALL)

Product:
Fusion Install

Description:
Fusion Install

Version:
2.4.8.1

MD5:
7e96a66f34cb921ae901b10d55c69a0f

SHA-1:
b39e519dd8311009dd4aad54d6b7b82727b4dc20

SHA-256:
f0f0a8cbcc90732fb7066343707c3c7563fcb1b10bf32d79b646805cd924f75d

Scanner detections:
15 / 68

Status:
Adware

Explanation:
This setup/installer bundles various adware components (toolbars, coupon extensions, ad-supported extensions and utility offers).

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:
4/20/2024 2:24:45 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Agnitum Outpost
PUA.Agent
7.1.1

AhnLab V3 Security
Trojan/Win32.Buzus
2014.10.25

Avira AntiVirus
ADWARE/Adware.Gen7
7.11.181.44

avast!
Malware-gen
141025-0

AVG
Adware Generic5.ANFB
2014.0.4040

Comodo Security
Application.Win32.AgentCV.HWYE
19896

ESET NOD32
Win32/AdWare.iBryte.Q application
7.0.302.0

F-Prot
W32/A-825ac5d5
v6.4.7.1.166

K7 AntiVirus
Unwanted-Program
13.185.13805

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.OptimumInstaller.A
v2014.10.25.08

NANO AntiVirus
Trojan.Win32.Buzus.cubqur
0.28.2.62841

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Installer.FUSIONINSTALL.I
14.10.25.7

Sophos
iBryte Optimum Installer
4.98

Vba32 AntiVirus
SScope.Malware-Cryptor.iBryte
3.12.26.3

VIPRE Antivirus
Optimum Installer
34232

File size:
1.6 MB (1,643,816 bytes)

Product version:
2.4.8.1

Copyright:
Copyright (C) 2013 Fusion Install

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
Adknowledge Fusion

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\setup.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
FUSION INSTALL

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
10/4/2013 1:00:00 AM

Valid to:
9/21/2014 12:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=FUSION INSTALL, OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O=FUSION INSTALL, 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:
3615E290FD8B112928257EE3CD74B519

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
1/29/2014 4:53:12 PM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
49152:mh+vWsVxOu+zsk0SKR/Y3A9G5pufC0wuBGBd/W:LvWsXOb0IAWpufEuBd

Entry address:
0x36B15

Entry point:
E8, C2, 8C, 00, 00, E9, 78, FE, FF, FF, 6A, 0C, 68, B8, 5C, 47, 00, E8, C1, 35, 00, 00, 83, 65, E4, 00, 8B, 75, 08, 3B, 35, 18, BB, 58, 00, 77, 22, 6A, 04, E8, C5, 8E, 00, 00, 59, 83, 65, FC, 00, 56, E8, 27, 9C, 00, 00, 59, 89, 45, E4, C7, 45, FC, FE, FF, FF, FF, E8, 09, 00, 00, 00, 8B, 45, E4, E8, CD, 35, 00, 00, C3, 6A, 04, E8, A8, 8D, 00, 00, 59, C3, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 83, 3D, 74, A7, 58, 00, 00, 75, 18, E8, F9, 81, 00, 00, 6A, 1E, E8, 21, 80, 00, 00, 68, FF, 00, 00, 00, E8, 37, 4D, 00, 00, 59, 59, A1...
 
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Entropy:
7.0737

Code size:
394.5 KB (403,968 bytes)

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