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setup1.exe

White Sea Media

The application setup1.exe by White Sea Media has been detected as adware by 7 anti-malware scanners. This is a setup program which is used to install the application. This is a malicious Bitcoin miner. Bitcoin-mining malware is designed to force computers to generate Bitcoins for cybercriminals' use and consumes computing power. The file has been seen being downloaded from downloads.shoppingsuggestion.com.
Publisher:
White Sea Media  (signed and verified)

MD5:
b5040ce994c67ffc8166e42151c8c56d

SHA-1:
682d37014804194d8ea9081331c73960b00393d3

SHA-256:
ebabb04f59e641c6af7a7c1bd6f49b0cf25b1bf1721bb9b139dd7ba8af822fd9

Scanner detections:
7 / 68

Status:
Adware

Explanation:
Part of a backdoor IRC bot network.

Analysis date:
11/5/2024 9:32:43 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

AhnLab V3 Security
Trojan/Win32.BitCoinMiner
2014.01.13

avast!
Win32:BitCoinMiner-FC [Trj]
2014.9-140114

AVG
Win32/PolyCrypt
2015.0.3594

Dr.Web
Trojan.BtcMine.221
9.0.1.014

McAfee
Artemis!B5040CE994C6
5600.7250

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Installer.WhiteSeaMedia.G
14.8.7.21

VIPRE Antivirus
Backdoor.Win32.Ircbot.gen
25370

File size:
1.2 MB (1,235,168 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Common path:
C:\Documents and Settings\{user}\Local settings\temp\setup1.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
White Sea Media

Authority:
COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:
7/8/2013 2:00:00 AM

Valid to:
7/9/2014 1:59:59 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:
1/7/2014 3:16:45 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
10.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:C+UY8hT45lZVIMEHAb9SvOTIvhdMS3gdtbY6gg/XQEAxDu:j8hT4hOMEHARSvhfiYFnrxy

Entry address:
0x325000

Entry point:
83, EC, 04, 50, 53, E8, 01, 00, 00, 00, CC, 58, 89, C3, 40, 2D, 00, 20, 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, 1F, 56, 94, 0F, 68, 7B, AF, 30, 77, 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, 82, 0F, 47, 47, B1, 62, 23, 27, 4A, 8D, 29, F8, 23, 18...
 
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Code size:
49.5 KB (50,688 bytes)

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

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

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