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SevereWeatherAlerts.exe

Severe Weather Alerts

Weather Notifications 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 SevereWeatherAlerts.exe, “SevereWeatherAlerts” by Weather Notifications has been detected as adware by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. This file is typically installed with the program Severe Weather Alerts by Weather Notifications, LLC which is a potentially unwanted software program.

File name:

Publisher:

Weather Notifications, LLC (signed by Weather Notifications LLC)

Product:

Severe Weather Alerts

Description:

SevereWeatherAlerts

Version:

1.21.0.0

MD5:

d05aafb82ecd6b109478c095d8d3457f

SHA-1:

c6b28ec94716427c399ef5948f382fdd85027916

SHA-256:

4e970eac55974d4f1dd7bb2e7da1599a2d5063697009d7c52d129e00c5a187a0

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:

12/23/2024 11:18:42 PM UTC (a few moments ago)

Scan engine

Detection

Engine version

Reason Heuristics

PUP.WeatherNotifications.T

14.8.8.1

File size:

82.2 KB (84,184 bytes)

Product version:

1.21.0.0

Original file name:

SevereWeatherAlerts.exe

File type:

Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:

Language Neutral

Common path:

C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\severeweatheralerts\severeweatheralerts.exe

Digital Signature

Signed by:

Weather Notifications LLC

Authority:

COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:

6/13/2013 5:00:00 PM

Valid to:

6/14/2014 4:59:59 PM

Subject:

CN=Weather Notifications LLC, O=Weather Notifications LLC, STREET=250 Park Ave Ste 504, L=Minneapolis, S=MN, PostalCode=55415, C=US

Issuer:

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

Serial number:

0D57C9460FE0C441B8FDD693F1AC6CD7

File PE Metadata

Compilation timestamp:

8/23/2013 12:35:31 PM

OS version:

4.0

OS bitness:

Win32

Subsystem:

Windows GUI

Linker version:

8.0

.NET CLR dependent:

Yes

CTPH (ssdeep):

768:9NfZw9O8Ovv8C+Oend3ZyNTFjSSG1gus7LuGe6A+uDA+brRSSORtrcOAvTdiJdzb:e6mbS9f/7A+uDAgrIZROOmZiJmWhEq

Entry address:

0xB4BE

Entry point:

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[+]

Entropy:

4.3824

Developed / compiled with:

Microsoft Visual C# / Basic .NET

Code size:

40 KB (40,960 bytes)

The file SevereWeatherAlerts.exe has been discovered within the following programs.

Severe Weather Alerts by Weather Notifications, LLC

Some versions of the Weather Notifications software bundles various potentially unwanted software such as toolbar and web browser extensions using the Tuguu DomalQ download manager.

www.severeweatheralerts.net

87% remove it

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

TCP (HTTP):

Connects to nesdis-ssmc.woc.noaa.gov (140.90.33.11:80)

TCP (HTTP):

Connects to a104-87-30-164.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com (104.87.30.164:80)

TCP (HTTP):

Connects to nesdis-woc2.boulder.noaa.gov (140.172.17.21:80)

TCP (HTTP):

Connects to a172-224-7-197.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com (172.224.7.197:80)

TCP (HTTP SSL):

Connects to a23-50-189-247.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com (23.50.189.247:443)

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