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IDC Ventures LLC

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 utorrent.exe by IDC Ventures 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 download.program-assist.com.
Publisher:
Download-Assist  (signed by IDC Ventures LLC)

Product:
utorrent

Version:
3.0.0.67

MD5:
b51155b8f13d4e85304b12f8e848a46f

SHA-1:
c126dc4ede2df6f8e05f0fb9ae81340687c55414

SHA-256:
15a9873c354beebd0a3ae805322c226c0604944faf739ffdb4c21ca886e073b3

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 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:
5/7/2024 8:42:59 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Air Software (M)
17.2.15.18

File size:
785.7 KB (804,544 bytes)

Product version:
3.0.0.67

Copyright:
(c) Download-Assist

Original file name:
utorrent.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
AirInstaller Download Manager

Language:
English (United States)

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
IDC Ventures LLC

Authority:
Symantec Corporation

Valid from:
12/26/2014 3:00:00 AM

Valid to:
12/26/2016 2:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=IDC Ventures LLC, O=IDC Ventures LLC, L=Vermilion, S=Ohio, C=US

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

Serial number:
57A88D08BD785CCB956355DFF2389330

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
1/22/2015 10:20:40 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
10.0

Entry address:
0x4CD6F

Entry point:
E8, 4E, 1A, 01, 00, E9, 89, FE, FF, FF, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, 8B, 54, 24, 0C, 8B, 4C, 24, 04, 85, D2, 74, 69, 33, C0, 8A, 44, 24, 08, 84, C0, 75, 16, 81, FA, 80, 00, 00, 00, 72, 0E, 83, 3D, 20, 4F, 4A, 00, 00, 74, 05, E9, B1, 1A, 01, 00, 57, 8B, F9, 83, FA, 04, 72, 31, F7, D9, 83, E1, 03, 74, 0C, 2B, D1, 88, 07, 83, C7, 01, 83, E9, 01, 75, F6, 8B, C8, C1, E0, 08, 03, C1, 8B, C8, C1, E0, 10, 03, C1, 8B, CA, 83, E2, 03, C1, E9, 02, 74, 06, F3, AB, 85, D2, 74, 0A, 88, 07, 83, C7, 01, 83, EA, 01, 75, F6...
 
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Entropy:
7.1131

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

http://download.program-assist.com/v2/click/b8152820/?d=http://www.installer-assist.com/download/uTorrent.exe&key=74d0961b3319530da518cacf5dc1a474e5196d4ec508edd64128f8f0f58a18de&sid=utorrent&uid=utorrent&affiliate_image=http://download-assist.com/admin/.../Utorrent_logo_i.png&product_image=http://download-assist.com/admin/.../Utorrent_logo_p.png&n=utorrent&filename=utorrent

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