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swa1_26.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 swa1_26.exe by Weather Notifications has been detected as adware by 8 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) installer. It is also typically executed from the user's temporary directory.
Publisher:
Weather Notifications, LLC  (signed by Weather Notifications LLC)

Product:
Severe Weather Alerts

Description:
Application

Version:
1.26.0.0

MD5:
9f040382c23a2115457de377239de3b9

SHA-1:
7c361656736dde97cdbe126d66dee13c7bdff0fa

SHA-256:
24eb1a774be9aeba73675bbfca1b4b682b5ce543f844237b8c6f2086a40dc1f1

Scanner detections:
8 / 68

Status:
Adware

Analysis date:
12/24/2024 12:01:23 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

AVG
Skodna.Bundle_c
2015.0.3343

Comodo Security
ApplicUnwnt
19585

ESET NOD32
MSIL/Adware.StrongVault (variant)
8.10446

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.SevereWeatherAlerts.A
v2014.09.22.04

Reason Heuristics
PUP.WeatherNotifications.H
14.9.22.16

Sophos
Generic PUA HM
4.98

VIPRE Antivirus
Blinkx/SevereWeatherAlerts
33322

XVirus List
Win32.Detected
2.9.22

File size:
429.4 KB (439,688 bytes)

Copyright:
Weather Notifications, LLC © 2013. All Rights Reserved.

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)

Language:
Language Neutral

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\temp\swa1_26.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Weather Notifications LLC

Authority:
COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:
6/13/2013 8:00:00 PM

Valid to:
6/14/2014 7:59:59 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:
12/5/2009 5:50:52 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:6ipvMrzKOdEN7vYCiFTA4Cp03sHyrsKg2Ic:6ip0rzfavY/cxGJ4KDIc

Entry address:
0x30FA

Entry point:
81, EC, 80, 01, 00, 00, 53, 55, 56, 33, DB, 57, 89, 5C, 24, 18, C7, 44, 24, 10, 60, 91, 40, 00, 33, F6, C6, 44, 24, 14, 20, FF, 15, 30, 70, 40, 00, 68, 01, 80, 00, 00, FF, 15, B0, 70, 40, 00, 53, FF, 15, 7C, 72, 40, 00, 6A, 08, A3, 18, EC, 42, 00, E8, F1, 2B, 00, 00, A3, 64, EB, 42, 00, 53, 8D, 44, 24, 34, 68, 60, 01, 00, 00, 50, 53, 68, 98, 8F, 42, 00, FF, 15, 58, 71, 40, 00, 68, 54, 91, 40, 00, 68, 60, E3, 42, 00, E8, A4, 28, 00, 00, FF, 15, AC, 70, 40, 00, BF, 00, 40, 43, 00, 50, 57, E8, 92, 28, 00, 00...
 
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Entropy:
7.9342

Packer / compiler:
Nullsoft install system v2.x

Code size:
23.5 KB (24,064 bytes)

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