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WAUpdater.exe

WAUpdater

Local Weather 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 WAUpdater.exe by Local Weather has been detected as adware by 2 anti-malware scanners. This file is typically installed with the program DesktopWeatherAlerts by Local Weather LLC which is a potentially unwanted software program.
Publisher:
Local Weather LLC  (signed and verified)

Product:
WAUpdater

Version:
1.4.0.0

MD5:
3e14b91f524f38f96b03e4912446653a

SHA-1:
459fb5d14d0cd2b2d6ee2da4cee4ebf9343aa5a9

SHA-256:
0ce70cd0f8d6b29813aac7a8331c0831c0303c1fb65d2fbd6fb5bb3850eee713

Scanner detections:
2 / 68

Status:
Adware

Analysis date:
12/25/2024 6:11:46 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.LocalWeather.J
14.8.8.1

Trend Micro House Call
TROJ_GEN.F47V1205
7.2.33

File size:
138.2 KB (141,496 bytes)

Product version:
1.4.0.0

Copyright:
Copyright © 2013 Local Weather LLC, All Rights Reserved.

Trademarks:
WeatherAlerts is a trademark of Local Weather LLC

Original file name:
WAUpdater.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
Language Neutral

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\weatheralerts\waupdater.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Local Weather LLC

Authority:
COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:
10/13/2013 8:00:00 PM

Valid to:
10/14/2014 7:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Local Weather LLC, O=Local Weather LLC, STREET="250 Park Ave #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:
1E363E3CA4E0B46A71B002CFAF51DED1

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
11/13/2013 10:52:35 AM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
8.0

.NET CLR dependent:
Yes

CTPH (ssdeep):
768:Z+oM9o2S5apufTngEsT7z3Lh28IyRlxhxC:Z+/+KCngj3nIy5hxC

Entry address:
0x41FE

Entry point:
FF, 25, 00, 20, 40, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00...
 
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Entropy:
3.4724

Developed / compiled with:
Microsoft Visual C# / Basic .NET

Code size:
12 KB (12,288 bytes)

The file WAUpdater.exe has been discovered within the following program.

DesktopWeatherAlerts  by Local Weather LLC
The Weather Alerts app is a bundler that is installed with potentially unwanted software. It integrates with the user's web browser and displays advertisements.
www.desktopweatheralerts.com
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The executing file has been seen to make the following network communications in live environments.

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to ocsp.comodoca.com  (178.255.83.1:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to ec2-54-227-251-121.compute-1.amazonaws.com  (54.227.251.121:80)

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