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cwxcntou.dll

Small Island Development

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 module cwxcntou.dll by Small Island Development has been detected as adware by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. This file is typically installed with the program TV Wizard by Small Island Development which is a potentially unwanted software program.
Publisher:
Small Island Development  (signed and verified)

MD5:
a46426d5238b8972aae063ecc0722167

SHA-1:
657925c11d7e23052944a9f05a72eded5e5e1cc8

SHA-256:
eeeafff04269db0f5e22052a61248f4432842b14701fd0bd06e99226580224b3

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:
12/25/2024 12:15:22 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Injekt (M)
17.2.7.7

File size:
1.3 MB (1,389,936 bytes)

File type:
Dynamic link library (Win64 DLL)

Common path:
C:\ProgramData\xvlqdeoy\dat\cwxcntou.dll

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Small Island Development

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
2/6/2014 1:00:00 AM

Valid to:
2/7/2015 12:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=Small Island Development, OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O=Small Island Development, L=St. James, S=St. James, C=BB

Issuer:
CN=VeriSign Class 3 Code Signing 2010 CA, OU=Terms of use at https://www.verisign.com/rpa (c)10, OU=VeriSign Trust Network, O="VeriSign, Inc.", C=US

Serial number:
31A84249503E31798E91715167A83481

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
9/11/2014 11:26:49 PM

OS version:
5.2

OS bitness:
Win64

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
10.0

Entry address:
0xC6D60

Entry point:
48, 89, 5C, 24, 08, 48, 89, 74, 24, 10, 57, 48, 83, EC, 20, 49, 8B, F8, 8B, DA, 48, 8B, F1, 83, FA, 01, 75, 05, E8, 07, C6, 00, 00, 4C, 8B, C7, 8B, D3, 48, 8B, CE, 48, 8B, 5C, 24, 30, 48, 8B, 74, 24, 38, 48, 83, C4, 20, 5F, E9, A7, FE, FF, FF, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, 66, 66, 0F, 1F, 84, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 48, 8B, C1, 49, 83, F8, 08, 72, 53, 0F, B6, D2, 49, B9, 01, 01, 01, 01, 01, 01, 01, 01, 49, 0F, AF, D1, 49, 83, F8, 40, 72, 1E, 48, F7, D9, 83, E1, 07, 74, 06, 4C, 2B, C1, 48, 89, 10, 48, 03...
 
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Code size:
902 KB (923,648 bytes)

The file cwxcntou.dll has been discovered within the following program.

TV Wizard  by Small Island Development
TV Wizard (by Injekt) is an Internet toolbar/plugin (for Internet Explorer it runs as a BHO, in Chrome and Firefox it will run as an extension) that plugs into the user's default web browser and will modify a number of settings such as taking control of the browser's search and home pages, new tab functionality as well as DNS 'not found' redirection.
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