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StormWatchSetup.exe

Weather Warnings 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 setup.exe by Weather Warnings has been detected as adware by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. The program is a setup application that uses the NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) installer. The file has been seen being downloaded from i.azzercom.net.
Publisher:
Weather Warnings LLC  (signed and verified)

Product:
StormWatchSetup.exe

Version:
1.0.0.29

MD5:
203a8636a97b6a281c93aa2f6de78860

SHA-1:
995ac6f96858efab5975b584c4c9430166ddb47d

SHA-256:
f4d3bef033e2453032b51521e11c577960f6e6083ebdaf2798effb4179d66b93

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Adware

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:
11/23/2024 4:20:33 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Weather.WeatherWarnings.Installer (M)
15.7.22.21

File size:
140.8 KB (144,216 bytes)

Product version:
1.0.0.29

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)

Language:
Language Neutral

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\microsoft\windows\inetcache\content.ie5\ggp8wbj6\setup.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Weather Warnings LLC

Authority:
thawte, Inc.

Valid from:
5/24/2015 5:00:00 PM

Valid to:
5/24/2016 4:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Weather Warnings LLC, O=Weather Warnings LLC, L=Austin, S=Texas, C=US

Issuer:
CN=thawte SHA256 Code Signing CA, O="thawte, Inc.", C=US

Serial number:
079CB9C1FFEB0CA9C428CBBE65D2EEE9

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
12/5/2009 2:52:06 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
1536:xumhxebkJf+FTXJSIS5mzCzrLGQibz7AbulJ3km2fiqmqg1nzONJSuYNccsS:xuxkZuTXJ3CpzP4wlm2fKRnaPSu/csS

Entry address:
0x323C

Entry point:
81, EC, 80, 01, 00, 00, 53, 55, 56, 33, DB, 57, 89, 5C, 24, 18, C7, 44, 24, 10, 30, 91, 40, 00, 33, F6, C6, 44, 24, 14, 20, FF, 15, 30, 70, 40, 00, 68, 01, 80, 00, 00, FF, 15, B4, 70, 40, 00, 53, FF, 15, 7C, 72, 40, 00, 6A, 08, A3, 58, 6F, 44, 00, E8, 09, 2C, 00, 00, A3, A4, 6E, 44, 00, 53, 8D, 44, 24, 34, 68, 60, 01, 00, 00, 50, 53, 68, 58, 9C, 42, 00, FF, 15, 58, 71, 40, 00, 68, B8, 91, 40, 00, 68, A0, 2E, 44, 00, E8, BC, 28, 00, 00, FF, 15, B0, 70, 40, 00, BF, 00, F0, 46, 00, 50, 57, E8, AA, 28, 00, 00...
 
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Entropy:
7.2581

Packer / compiler:
Nullsoft install system v2.x

Code size:
23 KB (23,552 bytes)

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

http://i.azzercom.net/osm/StormWatch/.../Setup.exe

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