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Catered to You

Part of the Yontoo adware component, a web browser plugin that injects unwanted ads in the browser. The application plugincontainer.exe by Catered to You has been detected as adware by 9 anti-malware scanners. It runs as a separate (within the context of its own process) windows Service named “Service Mgr CateredtoYou”. It will plug into the web browser and display context-based advertisements by overwriting existing ads or by inserting new ones on various web pages.
Publisher:
Catered to You  (signed and verified)

Version:
1.0.5744.28259

MD5:
42a659aefc25375d3b96c7b9af660f45

SHA-1:
893d0d3881a9ce153ef354718a49f69ffd7a759a

SHA-256:
72a20fe4edb608a54b32eefbdf3a7cb439d6eeabbca07c6b50f9c5686bfdc3ba

Scanner detections:
9 / 68

Status:
Adware

Explanation:
Injects advertising in the web browser in various formats.

Analysis date:
11/2/2024 11:22:30 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Avira AntiVirus
ADWARE/BrowseFox.Gen
8.3.2.2

avast!
Win32:BrowseFox-KU [PUP]
2014.9-151004

Dr.Web
Trojan.Yontoo.2465
9.0.1.0277

Emsisoft Anti-Malware
Adware.BrowseFox.EP
8.15.10.04.04

ESET NOD32
Win32/BrowseFox.AU potentially unwanted (variant)
9.12293

F-Prot
W32/S-6beac91b
v6.4.7.1.166

F-Secure
Adware.BrowseFox.EP
11.2015-04-10_1

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.MagicalFind
v2015.10.04.04

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Yontoo.CateredtoYou (M)
15.9.24.0

File size:
1 MB (1,048,808 bytes)

Product version:
1.0.5744.28259

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\ProgramData\a95f8535-bd08-4370-a6e0-814924c0d5f0\plugincontainer.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Catered to You

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
7/9/2015 2:00:00 AM

Valid to:
7/9/2016 1:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=Catered to You, O=Catered to You, L=San Diego, S=California, C=US

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:
0A98A7D8A0920CE49865E0EA32FFDDCF

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
9/24/2015 12:42:09 AM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
12.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:/ThhG2WZTc5unw4d03d9hQ6oGxoJiQkaYThWtO+yLGCzZrD8NAaS:/ThoFNnw4it9hQ6e08YdLGCzZv8nS

Entry address:
0x6FCB4

Entry point:
E8, EF, 79, 01, 00, E9, 39, FE, FF, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 83, EC, 20, 56, 57, 6A, 08, 59, BE, 34, 00, 4D, 00, 8D, 7D, E0, F3, A5, 8B, 75, 0C, 8B, 7D, 08, 85, F6, 74, 13, F6, 06, 10, 74, 0E, 8B, 0F, 83, E9, 04, 51, 8B, 01, 8B, 70, 18, FF, 50, 20, 89, 7D, F8, 89, 75, FC, 85, F6, 74, 0C, F6, 06, 08, 74, 07, C7, 45, F4, 00, 40, 99, 01, 8D, 45, F4, 50, FF, 75, F0, FF, 75, E4, FF, 75, E0, FF, 15, 24, C1, 4C, 00, 5F, 5E, 8B, E5, 5D, C2, 08, 00, 8B, 4D, F4, 64, 89, 0D, 00, 00, 00, 00, 59, 5F, 5F, 5E, 5B, 8B, E5, 5D, 51...
 
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Entropy:
6.6431

Code size:
811 KB (830,464 bytes)

Service
Display name:
Service Mgr CateredtoYou

Type:
Win32OwnProcess

Depends on:
RPCSS


The executing file has been seen to make the following network communication in live environments.

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to a184-29-106-129.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com  (184.29.106.129:80)

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