217.exe

White Sea Media

The application 217.exe by White Sea Media has been detected as adware by 5 anti-malware scanners. This is a setup program which is used to install the application. This is a trojan Bot that uses IRC to communicate with a comand and control network. The Trojan drops other malicious software and opens a backdoor on the infected computer and will run automatically on each boot. It is also typically executed from the user's temporary directory. The file has been seen being downloaded from shoppingsuggestion.com and multiple other hosts.
Publisher:
White Sea Media  (signed and verified)

MD5:
52ee82a48f0a54ba450afb3e6fa1954e

SHA-1:
e505fc2e465ad0e748a3772e3e01909452f5c91c

SHA-256:
3ab70182c9395f5fd1b5cb932d313104c3df379fb7627de85fbb1a4fac63f205

Scanner detections:
5 / 68

Status:
Adware

Explanation:
Part of a backdoor IRC bot network.

Analysis date:
11/5/2024 9:29:01 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Dr.Web
Trojan.BtcMine.221
9.0.1.0356

McAfee
Artemis!52EE82A48F0A
5600.7273

Reason Heuristics
PUP.WhiteSeaMedia.D
14.8.7.21

Trend Micro House Call
TROJ_GEN.F47V1214
7.2.356

VIPRE Antivirus
Backdoor.Win32.Ircbot.gen
24632

File size:
1.2 MB (1,250,016 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\temp\{random}.tmp\217.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:

Authority:
COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:
7/8/2013 8:00:00 AM

Valid to:
7/9/2014 7:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=White Sea Media, O=White Sea Media, STREET=4142 Mariner Blvd, L=Spring Hill, S=FL, PostalCode=34609, C=US

Issuer:
CN=COMODO Code Signing CA 2, O=COMODO CA Limited, L=Salford, S=Greater Manchester, C=GB

Serial number:
1FB235ACA7565BA27ADC702B2BD05C7F

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
12/10/2013 11:56:32 AM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
10.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:H2AOnNvVZQMv73quR3xEC/qTKvivY3PXdA27nluERWa0fce5:WdsM73quZezTKvBPtJ7YEYaM5

Entry address:
0x331000

Entry point:
83, EC, 04, 50, 53, E8, 01, 00, 00, 00, CC, 58, 89, C3, 40, 2D, 00, 90, 12, 00, 2D, 8F, 8E, 0A, 10, 05, 84, 8E, 0A, 10, 80, 3B, CC, 75, 19, C6, 03, 00, BB, 00, 10, 00, 00, 68, 92, 6D, D3, 1D, 68, A2, E2, 56, 54, 53, 50, E8, 0A, 00, 00, 00, 83, C0, 00, 89, 44, 24, 08, 5B, 58, C3, 55, 89, E5, 50, 53, 51, 56, 8B, 75, 08, 8B, 4D, 0C, C1, E9, 02, 8B, 45, 10, 8B, 5D, 14, 85, C9, 74, 0A, 31, 06, 01, 1E, 83, C6, 04, 49, EB, F2, 5E, 59, 5B, 58, C9, C2, 10, 00, E1, 83, AB, 47, CA, 6C, 7C, 74, 45, 24, 7C, 76, 4C, 36...
 
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Entropy:
7.9460  (probably packed)

Code size:
28.5 KB (29,184 bytes)

The file 217.exe has been seen being distributed by the following 2 URLs.

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