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showbox setup.exe

Showbox

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 showbox 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. The file has been seen being downloaded from evd.softwaredeliveryc.com.
Publisher:
Download Assistant  (signed and verified)

Product:
Showbox

Version:
3.0.0.154

MD5:
7f48ea7e3cfa8ead6ed07567065ed0be

SHA-1:
cdb6d74de29b6c788b88d1a79976957c1fe7dc93

SHA-256:
1982a5bd3ae825c8215d3fbc38d04debac6d4c1bcb695a9da54d400496b0627b

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:
11/3/2025 10:15:30 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Air Software.Download.Bundler (M)
16.6.3.11

File size:
1.1 MB (1,135,968 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\microsoft\windows\inetcache\ie\{random}\showbox%20setup.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Download Assistant

Authority:
Symantec Corporation

Valid from:
4/20/2016 5:00:00 PM

Valid to:
7/21/2017 4:59:59 PM

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:
74E99F6D6E13850E699A1F96049E70BC

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
1/30/2013 6:21:56 AM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.25

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:OxGk2EdobAoAcib12jfmfjB/y/3TLvTve/bvona5pF7QLJYbDEJakF:zjtJjeftK/jLrtniwYbDEJakF

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:
6.9592

Developed / compiled with:
Microsoft Visual C++

Code size:
65.5 KB (67,072 bytes)

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

http://evd.softwaredeliveryc.com/v2/click/1f83eab9/?affiliate_image=&cancel_url=http://tundra.site/pages/ML/MLINT.html&d=https://s3.amazonaws.com/latestversion/showbox.exe&done_url=http://tundra.site/pages/LM/LM_TYP.html&filename=Showbox Setup&key=2bc9aa1c7506044a9394d99a114c54b01b420af8798b04ce6e83fac733b0fccb&n=Showbox&product_image=http://d1dj2uff8ovnoq.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/.../product1.png&sid=Showbox-US&uid=12414228&uao=TW96aWxsYS81LjAgKFdpbmRvd3MgTlQgMTAuMDsgV09XNjQpIEFwcGxlV2ViS2l0LzUzNy4zNiAoS0hUTUwsIGxpa2UgR2Vja28pIENocm9tZS81MS4wLjI2ODMuMCBTYWZhcmkvNTM3LjM2&scid=a777ef74-1192-11e6-b5be-0401abff7701

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