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Domain Information

The domain www.changeflash.com is registered by proxy through NAME.COM, INC. and was originally registered in December of 2014. This domain has been known to host and distribute adware as well as other potentially unwanted software. The hosted servers are located in Ashburn, Virginia within the United States which resides on the Amazon.com, Inc. network. The domain uses the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing platform.
Registrar:
NAME.COM, INC.

Server location:
Virginia, United States (US)

Create date:
Friday, December 26, 2014

Expires date:
Saturday, December 26, 2015

Updated date:
Friday, December 26, 2014

ASN:
AS14618 AMAZON-AES - Amazon.com, Inc.,US

Root domain:
changeflash.com

Whois:
1 changeflash.com record

Scanner detections:
Detections  (100% detected)

Scan engine
Details
Detections

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Installer.PluginUpdateSL.F, PUP.Softpulse.PluginUpdate.Bundler (M)
100.00%

ESET NOD32
Win32/SoftPulse.S potentially unwanted application
100.00%

Emsisoft Anti-Malware
Gen:Variant.Adware.Symmi.49537, Gen:Variant.Adware.170076, Application.Bundler.DomaIQ.V
100.00%

F-Secure
Gen:Variant.Adware.Symmi.49537, Gen:Variant.Adware.170076, Riskware.Application.Bundler.DomaIQ
100.00%

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Gen:Variant.Adware.Symmi.49537, Application.Bundler.DomaIQ.V
100.00%

Kaspersky
not-a-virus:AdWare.Win32.SoftPulse, Trojan.Win32.Agent
100.00%

VIPRE Antivirus
Threat.4783235, Threat.4150696
100.00%

Norman
Gen:Variant.Adware.Symmi.49537, Application.Bundler.DomaIQ.V
100.00%

Sophos
PUA 'SoftPulse' (of type Adware)
100.00%

MicroWorld eScan
Gen:Variant.Adware.Symmi.49537
100.00%

McAfee
SoftPulse, Program.SoftPulse
100.00%

K7 AntiVirus
Unwanted-Program
100.00%

Bitdefender
Gen:Variant.Adware.Symmi.49537
100.00%

Comodo Security
Application.Win32.SoftPulse.D
100.00%

Avira AntiVirus
APPL/Softpulse.aone, APPL/Softpulse.599480
100.00%

The domain www.changeflash.com has been seen to resolve to the following 2 IP addresses.

107.21.31.231
ec2-107-21-31-231.compute-1.amazonaws.com
May 4, 2015

107.23.40.12
ec2-107-23-40-12.compute-1.amazonaws.com
January 16, 2015

File downloads found at URLs served by www.changeflash.com.

30 / 68    (Adware)
http://www.changeflash.com/f/us/.../index.php?sid=749&dv1=ad742-us&kw1=ad742-us-lm&uuid=aa32f2b3-1044-422f-556f-da3935b33c6b&dv3=aa32f2b3-1044-422f-556f-da3935b33c6b  (setup.exe)

30 / 68    (Adware)
http://www.changeflash.com/f/us/.../index.php?sid=751&dv1=ad744-us&kw1=ad744-us-lm&uuid=a5845662-dc84-475f-6728-86b1eb61e2fb&dv3=a5845662-dc84-475f-6728-86b1eb61e2fb  (setup.exe)

28 / 68    (Adware)
http://www.changeflash.com/f/au/.../index.php?sid=1758&dv1=ad1755-au&kw1=ad1755-au-cl&uuid=e111e0bf-c998-4ce0-628f-ecc30044c47e&dv3=e111e0bf-c998-4ce0-628f-ecc30044c47e  (setup.exe)

28 / 68    (Adware)
http://www.changeflash.com/f/au/.../index.php?sid=1758&dv1=ad1755-au&kw1=ad1755-au-cl&uuid=62fee2eb-131a-4bbe-68e8-7ad8306a113c&dv3=62fee2eb-131a-4bbe-68e8-7ad8306a113c  (setup.exe)

26 / 68    (Adware)
http://www.changeflash.com/f/us/.../index.php?sid=954&dv1=ad952-us&kw1=ad952-us-qyc&uuid=b020aa6d-8d3c-4a43-73e5-c9bd58bae2b8&dv3=b020aa6d-8d3c-4a43-73e5-c9bd58bae2b8  (setup.exe)

26 / 68    (Adware)
http://www.changeflash.com/j/us/.../index.php?sid=497&dv1=ad490-us&kw1=ad490-us-xx&uuid=649076e7-d8d4-4a7d-6dd8-b294f5a1c10c&dv3=649076e7-d8d4-4a7d-6dd8-b294f5a1c10c  (setup.exe)

The following file have been seen to comunicate with www.changeflash.com in live environments.

TCP » 107.23.40.12:80
new_chrome.exe (Google Chrome by Google)

URL:
http://www.changeflash.com/

Network:
Amazon Web Services (AWS), running an EC2 instance

Web server:
nginx/1.6.1

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