cifgzu.exe

Plants Vs Zombies

Surf Island Solutions

This is part of an adware program designed to inject advertising in the web browser (banners, text-links) as well as modify the normal behavior of the browser. Part of the Injekt brand of unwanted programs. The application cifgzu.exe by Surf Island Solutions has been detected as adware by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat.
Publisher:
Surf Island Solutions  (signed and verified)

Product:
Plants Vs Zombies

Version:
1.0.0.0

MD5:
4884c8235414ec1f3e34e2ed4fd1db45

SHA-1:
0a4ea5fbe7cce912910741a42f1776e519033839

SHA-256:
06831c38cbac56a66436e2e39ec8f01c62dc222314220bd2deb0ffdebb4e34af

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Adware

Explanation:
Injects display ads (banner ads), in-text ads, interstitial ads, or other types of ads in the web browser as well as alters the browsers settings (home page, search, DNS, and security protocols).

Analysis date:
2/26/2025 6:39:28 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Injekt (M)
16.9.15.22

File size:
48.5 KB (49,640 bytes)

Product version:
1.0.0.0

Copyright:
Copyright © Surf Island Solutions 2015

Original file name:
Plants Vs Zombies.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win64 EXE)

Language:
Language Neutral

Common path:
C:\ProgramData\tkdaoz\dat\cifgzu.exe

Digital Signature
Authority:
Symantec Corporation

Valid from:
1/22/2015 4:00:00 PM

Valid to:
3/23/2016 4:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Surf Island Solutions, O=Surf Island Solutions, L=St. James, S=St. James, C=BB

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

Serial number:
469A400E8DB23A4BD7FDB0D3C842CDCC

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
5/7/2015 1:28:22 AM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win64

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
11.0

.NET CLR dependent:
Yes

CTPH (ssdeep):
768:S9Sh02/Cgakdg0MOK88o14a/N0rYuM5p288jT+XEnBPMOpkBZjh:S8h5Rdg/614a/6YaLvquKB1h

Entry address:
0xBE3E

Entry point:
48, A1, 00, 20, 00, 40, 00, 00, 00, 00, FF, E0, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00...
 
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Entropy:
7.6322

Code size:
40 KB (40,960 bytes)

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