Mixxen.exe

Mixxen

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 as well as modify the computer’s system settings that control applications to run on startup. Part of the Injekt brand of unwanted programs. The application Mixxen.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. This file is typically installed with the program Mixxen by Surf Island Solutions which is a potentially unwanted software program.
Publisher:
Surf Island Solutions  (signed and verified)

Product:
Mixxen

Version:
1.0.0.0

MD5:
5a64aad6c8c25793463f96ad05684fdb

SHA-1:
10a782dfbbf64d7b7d07114a2bca84f6c0085ad1

SHA-256:
39885b8a2a5d66c3362d4602dd7be308c8151c9e3ba7c47db985652ea82062fd

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:
11/24/2024 7:24:09 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Injekt (M)
17.1.30.8

File size:
1.4 MB (1,480,544 bytes)

Product version:
1.0.0.0

Copyright:
Copyright © Surf Island Solutions 2014

Original file name:
Mixxen.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
Language Neutral

Common path:
C:\ProgramData\mixxen\mixxen.exe

Digital Signature
Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
3/2/2014 7:00:00 PM

Valid to:
3/3/2015 6:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Surf Island Solutions, OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O=Surf Island Solutions, 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:
6FB79DDB9BE296B956A7181848AE7E71

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
12/16/2014 8:49:12 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
11.0

.NET CLR dependent:
Yes

Entry address:
0x16902E

Entry point:
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Entropy:
6.3503

Developed / compiled with:
Microsoft Visual C# / Basic .NET

Code size:
1.4 MB (1,470,976 bytes)

The file Mixxen.exe has been discovered within the following program.

Mixxen  by Surf Island Solutions
This is an adware/PUP program that displays ads in the user's browser. From the TOS: "Applications may be supported by advertising, which may include display ads (banner ads), text ads, in-text ads (e.g.
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