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setup.exe

Creative Island Media, LLC

The software will display additional offers (such as adware) during installation including a browser toolbar/extension as well as advertising injection software (part of the Injekt brand). The application setup.exe by Creative Island Media has been detected as adware by 19 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) installer. It is also typically executed from the user's temporary directory. While running, it connects to the Internet address update.betterxperience.com on port 80 using the HTTP protocol.
Publisher:
Creative Island Media, LLC  (signed and verified)

MD5:
7f7a3d46685dbee5f02bd688dabb1b18

SHA-1:
9da19ac7c5dea111cae4c609d81e7afe4b748e68

SHA-256:
191232507fdb77c8439e3de99e5615e5493636a8ecfc9581f89d6ae0a8971601

Scanner detections:
19 / 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:
11/30/2024 10:34:31 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Agnitum Outpost
PUA.PullUpdate
7.1.1

Comodo Security
ApplicUnwnt
18093

Dr.Web
Adware.Plugin.128
9.0.1.0149

ESET NOD32
MSIL/Adware.PullUpdate
8.9669

IKARUS anti.virus
not-a-virus:AdWare.Win32.SaMon
t3scan.1.6.1.0

Kaspersky
not-a-virus:AdWare.Win32.SaMon
14.0.0.3793

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.ZombieAlert.A
v2014.05.29.11

McAfee
Artemis!D7690099DE32
5600.7116

Qihoo 360 Security
Win32/Trojan.Adware.988
1.0.0.1015

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Installer.CreativeIslandMedia.F
14.8.7.20

Sophos
Generic PUA DH
4.98

Trend Micro House Call
TROJ_GE.A56F51B4
7.2.149

Vba32 AntiVirus
TScope.Trojan.MSIL
3.12.26.0

VIPRE Antivirus
SearchDonkey
28196

File size:
3 MB (3,136,456 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\temp\{random}.tmp\software\setup.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Creative Island Media, LLC

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
3/24/2014 1:00:00 AM

Valid to:
6/24/2015 1:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN="Creative Island Media, LLC", OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O="Creative Island Media, LLC", 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:
0ED42A15C608C5CB28B1EF56CE392E5E

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
6/6/2009 11:41:59 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
49152:MLwI25JsUZRNiRR67t3U9ZZOBS48zAmC1Yc4OwpnlrEiiCcKR9N51sRP2v97:MLwzFnNiGREVOIzApYfdllrEiNcKR/I8

Entry address:
0x30FA

Entry point:
81, EC, 80, 01, 00, 00, 53, 55, 56, 33, DB, 57, 89, 5C, 24, 18, C7, 44, 24, 10, 60, 91, 40, 00, 33, F6, C6, 44, 24, 14, 20, FF, 15, 30, 70, 40, 00, 68, 01, 80, 00, 00, FF, 15, B0, 70, 40, 00, 53, FF, 15, 7C, 72, 40, 00, 6A, 08, A3, 18, EC, 42, 00, E8, F1, 2B, 00, 00, A3, 64, EB, 42, 00, 53, 8D, 44, 24, 34, 68, 60, 01, 00, 00, 50, 53, 68, 98, 8F, 42, 00, FF, 15, 58, 71, 40, 00, 68, 54, 91, 40, 00, 68, 60, E3, 42, 00, E8, A4, 28, 00, 00, FF, 15, AC, 70, 40, 00, BF, 00, 40, 43, 00, 50, 57, E8, 92, 28, 00, 00...
 
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Packer / compiler:
Nullsoft install system v2.x

Code size:
23.5 KB (24,064 bytes)

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

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to update.betterxperience.com  (54.218.62.24:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to d.pullupdate.com  (54.230.15.37:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to d.betterxperience.com  (54.230.13.123:80)

 
http://d.betterxperience.com/updater/dedu.txt

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