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setup1.exe

White Sea Media

The application setup1.exe by White Sea Media has been detected as adware by 3 anti-malware scanners. This is a setup program which is used to install the application. This is a trojan Bot that uses IRC to communicate with a comand and control network. The Trojan drops other malicious software and opens a backdoor on the infected computer and will run automatically on each boot. It is also typically executed from the user's temporary directory. The file has been seen being downloaded from downloads.shoppingsuggestion.com.
Publisher:
White Sea Media  (signed and verified)

MD5:
55c45f1038f6590572f9994d3072e47a

SHA-1:
4e8f69457fdd8c067c239377c5628348761116c9

SHA-256:
29aedf51f0f0b8b4d5f0aaaa55c666990a3ee5c70783d8e62223cb0d228e33d2

Scanner detections:
3 / 68

Status:
Adware

Explanation:
Part of a backdoor IRC bot network.

Analysis date:
11/5/2024 10:01:56 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Installer.WhiteSeaMedia.G
14.8.7.21

Rising Antivirus
PE:PUA.Infector!1.9C44
23.00.65.131216

VIPRE Antivirus
Backdoor.Win32.Ircbot.gen
23860

File size:
1.2 MB (1,277,152 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\temp\setup1.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
White Sea Media

Authority:
COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:
7/8/2013 8:00:00 AM

Valid to:
7/9/2014 7:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=White Sea Media, O=White Sea Media, STREET=4142 Mariner Blvd, L=Spring Hill, S=FL, PostalCode=34609, C=US

Issuer:
CN=COMODO Code Signing CA 2, O=COMODO CA Limited, L=Salford, S=Greater Manchester, C=GB

Serial number:
1FB235ACA7565BA27ADC702B2BD05C7F

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
11/28/2013 5:37:53 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
10.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:yxwXt1J/GkAEoA8dzhyphLqH2/MvvR+T0reH4lSQffeaVtAb7idxn:y6FbAEoA+hyzL/MwT0yY1fHVICJ

Entry address:
0x341000

Entry point:
83, EC, 04, 50, 53, E8, 01, 00, 00, 00, CC, 58, 89, C3, 40, 2D, 00, C0, 12, 00, 2D, 8F, 8E, 0A, 10, 05, 84, 8E, 0A, 10, 80, 3B, CC, 75, 19, C6, 03, 00, BB, 00, 10, 00, 00, 68, FA, 66, 59, 1F, 68, 00, 33, 4A, 6F, 53, 50, E8, 0A, 00, 00, 00, 83, C0, 00, 89, 44, 24, 08, 5B, 58, C3, 55, 89, E5, 50, 53, 51, 56, 8B, 75, 08, 8B, 4D, 0C, C1, E9, 02, 8B, 45, 10, 8B, 5D, 14, 85, C9, 74, 0A, 31, 06, 01, 1E, 83, C6, 04, 49, EB, F2, 5E, 59, 5B, 58, C9, C2, 10, 00, A3, 26, D5, 10, 41, 0F, 6A, A6, 8D, 08, DD, 95, 6A, 1E...
 
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Entropy:
7.9481  (probably packed)

Code size:
50 KB (51,200 bytes)

The file setup1.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

http://downloads.shoppingsuggestion.com/detection6.exe

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