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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:
596625e95dc97bf55dc8ffe9e849150e

SHA-1:
8b6eac381a6700d1f23da0f7557352361f7d38ea

SHA-256:
d41ccf3b2e751ee256c47e71c1092d924faee8c48e577caa3c788ae034f3eb9e

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 11:08:18 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP (M)
16.11.26.0

File size:
1.3 MB (1,325,792 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 3:00:00 AM

Valid to:
7/9/2014 2:59:59 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:
1/12/2014 4:01:14 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
10.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:yxGmDDER7BXa9JfDDd4g6epmtjE4bZ0EM8V90e+F6BXBsg6Fh:yxG3Of/d4mpOL0N84e+IBxh6Fh

Entry address:
0x34F000

Entry point:
83, EC, 04, 50, 53, E8, 01, 00, 00, 00, CC, 58, 89, C3, 40, 2D, 00, 30, 13, 00, 2D, 8F, 8E, 0A, 10, 05, 84, 8E, 0A, 10, 80, 3B, CC, 75, 19, C6, 03, 00, BB, 00, 10, 00, 00, 68, 17, C0, 0C, 4D, 68, FA, AE, A0, 65, 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, 03, 0D, 14, 7A, 00, C2, E4, AF, 5A, 53, D0, 12, 00, 47...
 
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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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