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updater.exe

Creative Island Media, LLC

Part of the branded Injekt adware package, the updater mechanism is an auto-starting program that is desigend to update the web browser extensions and protect the executables ChromeHelper, FirefoxHelper and IeHelper so that these programs can inject advertisments and generate popups in the user's web browser. The application updater.exe by Creative Island Media has been detected as adware by 20 anti-malware scanners. It is set to automatically start when a user logs into Windows via the current user run registry key under the display name ‘Updater’. This file is typically installed with the program Updater by Creative Island Media, LLC which is a potentially unwanted software program.

File name:

updater.exe

Publisher:

Updater (signed by Creative Island Media, LLC)

Product:

Updater

Description:

Updater service

Version:

1, 0, 0, 1

MD5:

252f768134f9413f8e87450994f35993

SHA-1:

ec18a5c34825043b11cb5fd74ef0ed7463573728

SHA-256:

472d030626a5f94b2a8bd7cdd1b54e7cb731bcd1f8b860138d4f1f6d326e7093

Scanner detections:

20 / 68

Status:

Adware

Explanation:

Injects display ads (banner ads), in-text ads, interstitial ads, or other types of ads in the web browser as well as alters the browsers settings (home page, search, DNS, and security protocols).

Analysis date:

11/26/2024 4:57:21 AM UTC (today)

Scan engine

Detection

Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware

Adware.Agent.NUE

1086

avast!

Win32:TubeDim-A [PUP]

2014.9-140214

Bitdefender

Adware.Agent.NUE

1.0.20.225

Bkav FE

W32.Clod4a8.Trojan

1.3.0.4613

Boost by Reason

Optional.Startup.CreativeIslandMedia.H

188838

Dr.Web

Adware.Plugin.130

9.0.1.0354

Emsisoft Anti-Malware

Adware.Agent.NUE

8.13.12.24.02

F-Secure

Adware.Agent.NUE

11.2013-24-12_3

G Data

Win32.Application.TubeDimmer

13.12.22

IKARUS anti.virus

AdWare.Agent

t3scan.2.2.29

Malwarebytes

PUP.Optional.TubeDimmer

v2013.12.20.10

McAfee

Artemis!A5F634DAE5C0

5600.7205

MicroWorld eScan

Adware.Agent.NUE

15.0.0.135

Norman

Malware

11.20140807

nProtect

Adware.Agent.NUE

14.02.02.01

Reason Heuristics

PUP.Startup.CreativeIslandMedia.H

14.8.7.20

Sophos

Search Donkey

4.97

Trend Micro House Call

TROJ_GEN.F47V1106

7.2.320

Vba32 AntiVirus

suspected of Trojan.Downloader.gen.h

3.12.24.3

VIPRE Antivirus

SearchDonkey

23956

File size:

305.9 KB (313,208 bytes)

Product version:

1, 0, 0, 1

Original file name:

updater.exe

File type:

Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:

English (United States)

Common path:

C:\ProgramData\updater\updater.exe

Digital Signature

Signed by:

Creative Island Media, LLC

Authority:

VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:

5/20/2013 5:00:00 PM

Valid to:

5/21/2014 4:59:59 PM

Subject:

CN="Creative Island Media, LLC", OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O="Creative Island Media, LLC", L=San Diego, S=California, C=US

Issuer:

CN=VeriSign Class 3 Code Signing 2010 CA, OU=Terms of use at https://www.verisign.com/rpa (c)10, OU=VeriSign Trust Network, O="VeriSign, Inc.", C=US

Serial number:

68F23F4D2767F6491DEA9186F2E5CB89

File PE Metadata

Compilation timestamp:

10/21/2013 10:31:25 PM

OS version:

5.1

OS bitness:

Win32

Subsystem:

Windows GUI

Linker version:

10.0

CTPH (ssdeep):

3072:iL3CzMRBuNCt6XVFJRoy71YTUjQYouVeZVZMaZVfbOYh1W89slSVAghzOuKsIBkV:iLSzMRXuVFTRSowZvHfKSpQqiuVGG

Entry address:

0x1ED07

Entry point:

E8, 53, 96, 00, 00, E9, 89, FE, FF, FF, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 8B, 45, 08, 85, C0, 74, 12, 83, E8, 08, 81, 38, DD, DD, 00, 00, 75, 07, 50, E8, 1C, D5, FF, FF, 59, 5D, C3, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 83, EC, 10, A1, 10, EC, 43, 00, 33, C5, 89, 45, FC, 8B, 55, 18, 53, 33, DB, 56, 57, 3B, D3, 7E, 1F, 8B, 45, 14, 8B, CA, 49, 38, 18, 74, 08, 40, 3B, CB, 75, F6, 83, C9, FF, 8B, C2, 2B, C1, 48, 3B, C2, 7D, 01, 40, 89, 45, 18, 89, 5D, F8, 39, 5D, 24, 75, 0B, 8B, 45, 08, 8B, 00, 8B, 40, 04, 89, 45, 24, 8B, 35, 44, 41, 43, 00... 
[+]

Entropy:

6.4308

Code size:

200.5 KB (205,312 bytes)

Startup File (User Run)

Registry location:

HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

Name:

Updater

Command:

C:\ProgramData\updater\updater.exe

Startup File (All Users Run)

Registry location:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

Name:

Updater

Command:

C:\ProgramData\updater\updater.exe

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

Updater by Creative Island Media, LLC

This is the updater program installed with the company's TubeDimmer software which is typically installed through a bundled offer and is potentially unwanted.

www.injekt.com

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

TCP (HTTP):

Connects to ec2-54-218-62-24.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com (54.218.62.24:80)

TCP (HTTP):

Connects to ec2-54-186-84-255.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com (54.186.84.255:80)

TCP (HTTP):

Connects to server-52-84-7-153.ord54.r.cloudfront.net (52.84.7.153:80)

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