stormwatchsrv.exe

Weather Protector 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 stormwatchsrv.exe by Weather Protector has been detected as adware by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat.
Publisher:
Weather Protector LLC  (signed and verified)

Version:
1.0.2.55

MD5:
f1c30208213ad73ce8f59bef65453846

SHA-1:
5d487e90f57835f24613204654655f19081a7003

SHA-256:
d03111069efe4f8dfc47d1253ae8759a13f18b018325c1a1dda7066caf34158d

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:
11/23/2024 7:34:50 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Weather (M)
16.8.19.8

File size:
572.5 KB (586,264 bytes)

Product version:
1.0.2.55

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\Program Files\stormwatch\stormwatchsrv.exe

Digital Signature
Authority:
COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:
6/13/2014 5:30:00 AM

Valid to:
6/14/2015 5:29:59 AM

Subject:
CN=Weather Protector LLC, O=Weather Protector LLC, STREET="101 Colorado St #2309", L=Austin, S=TX, PostalCode=78701, C=US

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

Serial number:
00833BECDB30CAD96C0E0AC4DF14A0329F

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
4/10/2015 7:19:53 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
11.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
6144:ejYUP0OIlAhOc2eJ18vZ3v8Tie8rTOPRAOnAOYGjl0tUx5fNnzquw:q0OI+0c2eJ18vZf8mbrTEhmG5T5ZqN

Entry address:
0x1B494

Entry point:
E8, 0C, A6, 00, 00, E9, 7F, FE, FF, FF, E8, 4F, 14, 00, 00, 85, C0, 75, 06, B8, EC, 43, 48, 00, C3, 83, C0, 0C, C3, 55, 8B, EC, 56, E8, E4, FF, FF, FF, 8B, 4D, 08, 51, 89, 08, E8, 20, 00, 00, 00, 59, 8B, F0, E8, 05, 00, 00, 00, 89, 30, 5E, 5D, C3, E8, 1B, 14, 00, 00, 85, C0, 75, 06, B8, E8, 43, 48, 00, C3, 83, C0, 08, C3, 55, 8B, EC, 8B, 4D, 08, 33, C0, 3B, 0C, C5, 80, 42, 48, 00, 74, 27, 40, 83, F8, 2D, 72, F1, 8D, 41, ED, 83, F8, 11, 77, 05, 6A, 0D, 58, 5D, C3, 8D, 81, 44, FF, FF, FF, 6A, 0E, 59, 3B, C8...
 
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Entropy:
6.2930

Code size:
377 KB (386,048 bytes)

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