Flash version distributed in China after EOL is installing adware

Found on ZD Net on Sunday, 07 March 2021
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Currently, this Chinese version of the old Flash Player app is available only via flash.cn, a website managed by a company named Zhong Cheng Network, the only entity authorized by Adobe to distribute Flash inside China.

During subsequent analysis, researchers found that the app was indeed installing a valid version of Flash but also downloading and running additional payloads.

Flash has been a security problem. Now after it's official death still is. Nothing seems to have changed.