SearchProtection.exe

Search Protection

Visicom Media Inc.

This is part of the Visicom VMN web browser toolbar and extension that will modify the browser's default search provider, DNS, and home page functions. The application SearchProtection.exe by Visicom Media has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. It is set to automatically execute when any user logs into Windows (through the local user run registry setting) with the name ‘Search Protection’. While running, it connects to the Internet address visicom-93.nationalnet.com on port 80 using the HTTP protocol.
Publisher:
MyAppStash.com.  (signed by Visicom Media Inc.)

Product:
Search Protection

Version:
2,0,5,00

MD5:
d1635f9e88826c2d982e723c84675038

SHA-1:
691af12de9b6bb46f5b29c8620cd00b6198084f7

SHA-256:
eb31eccaeb40c9a2e01756715f3583348a24a6c6ea2cb433738a9658d4d52c20

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Note:
Our current pool of anti-malware engines have not currently detected this file, however based on our own detection heuristics we feel that this file is unwanted.

Analysis date:
11/14/2024 9:10:30 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Visicom.VisicomMedia (M)
15.7.9.20

File size:
922.1 KB (944,224 bytes)

Product version:
2,0,5,00

Copyright:
(c) 2013 MyAppStash.com. All rights reserved.

Original file name:
SearchProtection.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\ProgramData\search protection\searchprotection.exe

Digital Signature
Authority:
Thawte, Inc.

Valid from:
4/17/2012 7:00:00 PM

Valid to:
6/21/2014 6:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Visicom Media Inc., OU=SECURE APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT, O=Visicom Media Inc., L=Brossard, S=Quebec, C=CA

Issuer:
CN=Thawte Code Signing CA - G2, O="Thawte, Inc.", C=US

Serial number:
2B19B54BB7ABEE1A2623111C029AF449

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
6/4/2013 1:16:09 PM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:NEnRN28OVh8p5+/gjZupEYYZrrWAPEfl9zbwVyt/C7/Zt/lot9r9RZZMuq5LRl:NE728SSp5+/lArjSnjF9RUuq5v

Entry address:
0x837CD

Entry point:
E8, E0, 06, 01, 00, E9, 79, FE, FF, FF, CC, 68, 90, 03, 48, 00, 64, FF, 35, 00, 00, 00, 00, 8B, 44, 24, 10, 89, 6C, 24, 10, 8D, 6C, 24, 10, 2B, E0, 53, 56, 57, A1, 70, D5, 4B, 00, 31, 45, FC, 33, C5, 50, 89, 65, E8, FF, 75, F8, 8B, 45, FC, C7, 45, FC, FE, FF, FF, FF, 89, 45, F8, 8D, 45, F0, 64, A3, 00, 00, 00, 00, C3, 8B, 4D, F0, 64, 89, 0D, 00, 00, 00, 00, 59, 5F, 5F, 5E, 5B, 8B, E5, 5D, 51, C3, CC, CC, CC, 68, 90, 03, 48, 00, 64, FF, 35, 00, 00, 00, 00, 8B, 44, 24, 10, 89, 6C, 24, 10, 8D, 6C, 24, 10, 2B...
 
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Entropy:
6.2622

Code size:
641.5 KB (656,896 bytes)

Startup File (All Users Run)
Registry location:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

Name:
Search Protection

Command:
C:\ProgramData\search protection\searchprotection.exe


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

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to visicom-93.nationalnet.com  (69.50.128.4:80)

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