InstallCore is a widely-distributed pay-per-install bundler classified as PUA that wraps free software with adware, browser hijackers, and additional bundled installers. It uses deceptive UI patterns during installation to trick users into accepting bundled components, and is one of the most prevalent PUA families globally. Removal often requires uninstalling multiple bundled components.
InstallCore is a widely-distributed pay-per-install bundler classified as PUA that wraps free software with adware, browser hijackers, and additional bundled installers. It uses deceptive UI patterns during installation to trick users into accepting bundled components, and is one of the most prevalent PUA families globally. Removal often requires uninstalling multiple bundled components.
InstallCore is a software bundling installer distributed via download portals and freeware sites, offering optional software during the install flow.
Multiple unwanted programs installed alongside the desired software, browser homepage and search engine changes, and PUA detections for InstallCore or InstallerEx are typical.
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Get this profile as JSON: https://jordanricky1604-ship-it.github.io/malware-families-catalog/api/installcore.json
This profile is part of the Malware Families Catalog, a public dataset of 2,899 malware families extracted from the EMBER 2018 benchmark. The catalog is also published on Hugging Face and Kaggle.