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DesktopWeatherAlertsSetup.exe

Local Weather LLC

Part of an adware web browser extension that delivers advertisements such as coupons, price-comparisons, display media, affiliate links, banners, popups/popunders and other links. The application desktopweatheralertssetup.exe by Local Weather has been detected as adware by 5 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) installer. The file has been seen being downloaded from i.desktopweatheralerts00.desktopweatheralerts.com.
Publisher:
Local Weather LLC  (signed and verified)

Product:
DesktopWeatherAlertsSetup.exe

Version:
1.0.29.0

MD5:
7503bb28dcfaee54daed5b25c5798558

SHA-1:
f5bc5a45ceb10b01da566cef7d1f68a11ef38624

SHA-256:
1cfffc29a1a9289f5bcf381176409681018b3598a94c1cf75251dd760afce901

Scanner detections:
5 / 68

Status:
Adware

Analysis date:
12/24/2024 1:45:15 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Comodo Security
ApplicUnwnt
17880

ESET NOD32
MSIL/Adware.StrongVault (variant)
8.9496

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.WeatherAlerts.A
v2014.03.04.08

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Installer.LocalWeather.Z
14.8.8.1

Trend Micro House Call
TROJ_GEN.F47V0225
7.2.63

File size:
470.9 KB (482,152 bytes)

Product version:
1.0.29.0

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)

Language:
Language Neutral

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\desktopweatheralertssetup.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Local Weather LLC

Authority:
COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:
10/14/2013 4:00:00 AM

Valid to:
10/15/2014 3:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=Local Weather LLC, O=Local Weather LLC, STREET="250 Park Ave #504", L=Minneapolis, S=MN, PostalCode=55415, C=US

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

Serial number:
1E363E3CA4E0B46A71B002CFAF51DED1

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
12/6/2009 2:50:52 AM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
6144:se34U3DwRk/3htqcE2n198LxZ0jPM/7y4zjC9oTOLzFDbypKeNHMukh0WjBBV564:fIwhtq8nU81m5empKeWu+n9M7+Zw7Hs

Entry address:
0x30FA

Entry point:
81, EC, 80, 01, 00, 00, 53, 55, 56, 33, DB, 57, 89, 5C, 24, 18, C7, 44, 24, 10, 60, 91, 40, 00, 33, F6, C6, 44, 24, 14, 20, FF, 15, 30, 70, 40, 00, 68, 01, 80, 00, 00, FF, 15, B0, 70, 40, 00, 53, FF, 15, 7C, 72, 40, 00, 6A, 08, A3, 18, EC, 42, 00, E8, F1, 2B, 00, 00, A3, 64, EB, 42, 00, 53, 8D, 44, 24, 34, 68, 60, 01, 00, 00, 50, 53, 68, 98, 8F, 42, 00, FF, 15, 58, 71, 40, 00, 68, 54, 91, 40, 00, 68, 60, E3, 42, 00, E8, A4, 28, 00, 00, FF, 15, AC, 70, 40, 00, BF, 00, 40, 43, 00, 50, 57, E8, 92, 28, 00, 00...
 
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Entropy:
7.2354

Packer / compiler:
Nullsoft install system v2.x

Code size:
23.5 KB (24,064 bytes)

The file desktopweatheralertssetup.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

http://i.desktopweatheralerts00.desktopweatheralerts.com/inst/software/.../DesktopWeatherAlertsSetup.exe

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