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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:
b22c4433650946fb1a63c4fa437b423e

SHA-1:
ece9e586bbbfe7d0e64c7a29d130aca2b8779b04

SHA-256:
4c647a9a5e9dc9fc319dac4c3b093bfeac7e81817afebf24910c93e0856bb493

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:
7/15/2025 6:42:07 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Air Software.Download.Bundler (M)
16.4.12.1

File size:
1.1 MB (1,143,040 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\ry0qfeh5\setup.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Download Assistant

Authority:
Symantec Corporation

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

Valid to:
7/6/2017 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:
3F4D313EECE411E33755867DDBC09D69

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:/xGnqXUlZJRA13x0WKDhMpoY7NPoAy4YMYSQ930kIfwbEJakpg:IQ4ZJK1hD6G/NNS32wbEJakpg

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:
6.9698

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/9fa21c67/?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,x,avast antivirus free download 2016

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