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SWAUpdater.exe

Severe Weather Alerts Updater

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 SWAUpdater.exe 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:

SWAUpdater.exe

Publisher:

Weather Notifications, LLC (signed by Weather Notifications LLC)

Product:

Severe Weather Alerts Updater

Description:

SWAUpdater

Version:

1.3.0.0

MD5:

c4020fe17d7586a12f2e15488b41a6de

SHA-1:

66556d119412644e1905f12fb2fc9de06ded96c5

SHA-256:

96b7957302749d604f18df9e520c42055f62c9f2e160243757f2dfb54a5ab4d1

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 5:21:06 AM UTC (today)

Scan engine

Detection

Engine version

Reason Heuristics

PUP.WeatherNotifications.K

14.8.8.1

File size:

30.2 KB (30,920 bytes)

Product version:

1.3.0.0

Original file name:

SWAUpdater.exe

File type:

Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:

Language Neutral

Common path:

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

7/24/2013 9:20:22 AM

OS version:

4.0

OS bitness:

Win32

Subsystem:

Windows GUI

Linker version:

8.0

.NET CLR dependent:

Yes

CTPH (ssdeep):

384:PYWC94nSLdRcruwpD5XGIR9LYCxMMC187IHy1n:PVG4n+7R2WIRjxh7oGn

Entry address:

0x413E

Entry point:

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[+]

Entropy:

3.9449

Developed / compiled with:

Microsoft Visual C# / Basic .NET

Code size:

12 KB (12,288 bytes)

The file SWAUpdater.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 communication in live environments.

TCP (HTTP):

Connects to ec2-54-204-32-67.compute-1.amazonaws.com (54.204.32.67:80)

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