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waterplant.browseradapter.exe

Water Plant

Part of the Yontoo adware component, a web browser plugin that injects unwanted ads in the browser. The application waterplant.browseradapter.exe by Water Plant has been detected as adware by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat.
Publisher:
Water Plant  (signed and verified)

MD5:
5bf7a714fc842a08a2c923eab9ddfbce

SHA-1:
1ea04883cccc9d7cb325a0a96b37d66e0efdaa43

SHA-256:
7bcf6d6844ce5083447be7fb1f200f8d54368b6ee20a2347f0329b71b2b94f9d

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Adware

Explanation:
Belongs to the Sambreel/Yontoo progam that inserts various forms of advertising in the user's web browser, installed with minimal or no user consent.

Analysis date:
1/12/2025 5:37:07 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Yontoo (M)
17.2.27.4

File size:
104.2 KB (106,736 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Common path:
C:\Program Files\water plant\bin\waterplant.browseradapter.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Water Plant

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
3/17/2015 9:00:00 PM

Valid to:
3/17/2016 8:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Water Plant, O=Water Plant, 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:
284869797AEBB7A395B5C9D30D83B399

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
4/17/2015 3:02:12 AM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
10.0

Entry address:
0x47B5

Entry point:
E8, C5, 21, 00, 00, E9, 89, FE, FF, FF, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 5D, E9, F3, 05, 00, 00, 3B, 0D, 70, 60, 41, 00, 75, 02, F3, C3, E9, 41, 22, 00, 00, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 83, EC, 10, EB, 0D, FF, 75, 08, E8, 44, 23, 00, 00, 59, 85, C0, 74, 0F, FF, 75, 08, E8, 8A, 07, 00, 00, 59, 85, C0, 74, E6, C9, C3, F6, 05, 38, 75, 41, 00, 01, BF, 2C, 75, 41, 00, BE, 2C, 22, 41, 00, 75, 2C, 83, 0D, 38, 75, 41, 00, 01, 6A, 01, 8D, 45, FC, 50, 8B, CF, C7, 45, FC, 34, 22, 41, 00, E8, 2C, 00, 00, 00, 68, 4E, 1A, 41, 00, 89, 35, 2C...
 
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Code size:
67 KB (68,608 bytes)

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