home

shekel.exe

LightWare

Daniel Hareuveni

This is a WebPick installer that bundles (with very minimal user consent) a number of adware browser extensions which inject ads in the browser. The application shekel.exe, “Installer for LightWare” by Daniel Hareuveni has been detected as adware by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. The program is a setup application that uses the WebPick InstalleRex (Tarma) installer. The file has been seen being downloaded from addoncommon.info. While running, it connects to the Internet address r1.stylezip.info on port 80 using the HTTP protocol.
Publisher:
SoftWarehouse  (signed by Daniel Hareuveni)

Product:
LightWare

Description:
Installer for LightWare

Version:
2014.1.6.1805

MD5:
a26b17c76bd8df4497c161bcabf595d6

SHA-1:
065050b865b506153b416fa23049e499b712900a

SHA-256:
54ba550e066bf6ff7f5c8688bb7a1afcd28564efec36655c77c68404bb0ab03c

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Adware

Explanation:
Uses Web-Pick's 'File Product', an Installer which wraps various products and downloads and installs it silently through the process, hosted on TusFiles.

Analysis date:
11/23/2024 5:29:20 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Installer.DanielHareuveni.G
14.2.25.3

File size:
311.9 KB (319,408 bytes)

Product version:
1.0.0.1

Copyright:
Copyright © 2014 SoftWarehouse

Original file name:
TSULoader.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
WebPick InstalleRex (Tarma)

Language:
Language Neutral

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\shekel.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Daniel Hareuveni

Authority:
COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:
7/24/2013 5:00:00 PM

Valid to:
7/24/2016 4:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Daniel Hareuveni, O=Daniel Hareuveni, STREET=Yair Rozenblum 15, L=Tel aviv, S=Israel, PostalCode=6958301, C=IL

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

Serial number:
009AE37A5537F1B682C02A835BCC61E4C9

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
3/12/2013 1:51:45 AM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
8.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
6144:sro9uEo2S1YnQmCX492DkwNP3qpYFx1PKR9bwMHCrwqdS1D/9n1v94dk:srAu6/eIo4s1yR9lsc/adk

Entry address:
0x14DB

Entry point:
55, 8B, EC, 81, EC, 2C, 06, 00, 00, 53, 56, 33, DB, 57, 66, 89, 9D, DC, FB, FF, FF, 89, 5D, F4, 89, 5D, FC, FF, 15, 74, 30, 40, 00, A3, 08, 44, 40, 00, FF, 15, 70, 30, 40, 00, 8B, F8, 8D, 45, EC, 50, FF, 15, 6C, 30, 40, 00, FF, 15, 68, 30, 40, 00, 8B, F0, F7, D6, 33, F7, FF, 15, 64, 30, 40, 00, 33, F0, 8B, 45, F0, 33, 45, EC, 68, 04, 01, 00, 00, 33, F0, 8D, 85, D4, F9, FF, FF, 50, 53, FF, 15, 60, 30, 40, 00, 85, C0, 75, 41, FF, 15, 5C, 30, 40, 00, 83, F8, 78, 75, 1A, 68, A8, 32, 40, 00, E8, 43, FB, FF, FF...
 
[+]

Entropy:
7.9517

Developed / compiled with:
Microsoft Visual C++

Code size:
7.5 KB (7,680 bytes)

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

http://addoncommon.info/.../

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

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to r1.stylezip.info  (54.186.255.26:80)

Remove shekel.exe - Powered by Reason Core Security
herdProtect is a second line of defense malware removal platform powered by 68 anti-malware engines in the cloud. Since no single anti-malware program is perfect 100% of the time, herdProtect utilizes a 'herd' of multiple engines to guarantee the widest coverage and the earliest possible detection.