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usagelog.exe

White Sea Media

The application usagelog.exe by White Sea Media has been detected as adware by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. It is set to automatically execute when any user logs into Windows (through the local user run registry setting) with the name ‘UsageLoader’.
Publisher:
White Sea Media  (signed and verified)

MD5:
4d4ae13315f798230aa168dba7455b03

SHA-1:
46e1f0fc9ef22218519807dab96eb1b66ebd98ca

SHA-256:
eabfd301a28171b9f135ba13ad266abea72c218529d1f193041c22fcfd8e8531

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:
11/30/2024 11:12:47 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP (M)
16.12.12.10

File size:
1.3 MB (1,313,880 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Common path:
C:\Program Files\vlc player gpu+\usagelog.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
White Sea Media

Authority:
COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:
7/8/2013 1:00:00 AM

Valid to:
7/9/2014 12:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=White Sea Media, O=White Sea Media, STREET=4142 Mariner Blvd, L=Spring Hill, S=FL, PostalCode=34609, C=US

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

Serial number:
1FB235ACA7565BA27ADC702B2BD05C7F

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
2/22/2014 11:13:34 AM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
10.0

Entry address:
0x34E000

Entry point:
83, EC, 04, 50, 53, E8, 01, 00, 00, 00, CC, 58, 89, C3, 40, 2D, 00, 00, 13, 00, 2D, FF, 91, 0A, 10, 05, F4, 91, 0A, 10, 80, 3B, CC, 75, 19, C6, 03, 00, BB, 00, 10, 00, 00, 68, BE, 35, 24, 6A, 68, 73, F2, 03, 08, 53, 50, E8, 0A, 00, 00, 00, 83, C0, 00, 89, 44, 24, 08, 5B, 58, C3, 55, 89, E5, 50, 53, 51, 56, 8B, 75, 08, 8B, 4D, 0C, C1, E9, 02, 8B, 45, 10, 8B, 5D, 14, 85, C9, 74, 0A, 31, 06, 01, 1E, 83, C6, 04, 49, EB, F2, 5E, 59, 5B, 58, C9, C2, 10, 00, 61, 09, 61, F8, ED, 37, B5, C2, 6B, 67, 1A, 45, 12, 3A...
 
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Entropy:
7.9105  (probably packed)

Code size:
75 KB (76,800 bytes)

Startup File (All Users Run)
Registry location:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

Name:
UsageLoader

Command:
"C:\Program Files\vlc player gpu+\usagelog.exe"


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