setup1.exe

White Sea Media

The application setup1.exe by White Sea Media has been detected as adware by 4 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:
cb147d0137fc32b1f0f778f2f5ec83db

SHA-1:
f85de3d920794f2f5228b1011f10c6b75a585383

SHA-256:
ca1c0628896161d6fe3584a72dbb949a1347d7ec7b8fd11cec9664848ab4359f

Scanner detections:
4 / 68

Status:
Adware

Explanation:
Part of a backdoor IRC bot network.

Analysis date:
11/5/2024 9:40:54 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Dr.Web
Trojan.BtcMine.221
9.0.1.0352

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Installer.WhiteSeaMedia.G
14.8.7.21

Trend Micro House Call
TROJ_GEN.F47V1213
7.2.352

VIPRE Antivirus
Backdoor.Win32.Ircbot.gen
24342

File size:
1.2 MB (1,265,888 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:

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:
12/10/2013 4:49:35 AM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
10.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:MlQ+jZdx7QO+k0TZS6slYIwpJxr/+2pGCiOpJhnRarMk+FNJOnI8cl7mcd:MlQUxMlbToNwJrG2pGfMJhR7FPl79d

Entry address:
0x336000

Entry point:
83, EC, 04, 50, 53, E8, 01, 00, 00, 00, CC, 58, 89, C3, 40, 2D, 00, 90, 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, 6F, 18, E0, 5C, 68, 11, D9, 66, 1F, 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, 34, 92, 00, B0, E0, 0A, AE, F2, A3, 83, DC, 6B, 42, 22...
 
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Entropy:
7.9463  (probably packed)

Code size:
50 KB (51,200 bytes)

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

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