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weathersetup.exe

Crawler Weather Toolbar

Crawler Group, LLC

The application weathersetup.exe, “Crawler Weather Toolbar Setup ” by Crawler Group has been detected as adware by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. The program is a setup application that uses the Inno Setup installer. The file has been seen being downloaded from www.viewtheweather.com.
Publisher:
Crawler Group   (signed by Crawler Group, LLC)

Product:
Crawler Weather Toolbar

Description:
Crawler Weather Toolbar Setup

Version:
6.0.0.49

MD5:
933e9e0afbdc2ce80c8fd4c0a1c9fc4e

SHA-1:
2fe4e95873e45af1241837c078586e1662107d57

SHA-256:
9ac2f3be194949d46e9a4e7fbe4445726aec6c29cd5be999f7dfc0dff6a4941f

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:
12/25/2024 2:11:52 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Crawler.CrawlerGroup.Installer (M)
16.1.5.9

File size:
2.3 MB (2,395,744 bytes)

Product version:
6.0.0.49

Copyright:
copyright © Crawler Group

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
Inno Setup

Language:
Language Neutral

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\microsoft\windows\inetcache\ie\{random}\weathersetup.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Crawler Group, LLC

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
8/20/2014 8:00:00 PM

Valid to:
8/20/2017 7:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN="Crawler Group, LLC", O="Crawler Group, LLC", L=Wilmington, S=Delaware, 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:
68EC8C9CE5E2EA57582931BA9277481B

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
6/19/1992 6:22:17 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.25

CTPH (ssdeep):
49152:rDBp2mWcr9z+4UCa+ddcd2irg/Z0IfcMry50l/LTebA5rOYiZnu:Bp2dchzI+Xcd2wjr2HlHebSivZnu

Entry address:
0xC1C0

Entry point:
55, 8B, EC, 83, C4, A4, 53, 56, 57, 33, C0, 89, 45, C4, 89, 45, C0, 89, 45, A4, 89, 45, D0, 89, 45, C8, 89, 45, CC, 89, 45, D4, 89, 45, D8, 89, 45, EC, B8, C8, C0, 40, 00, E8, 60, 86, FF, FF, 33, C0, 55, 68, 85, C8, 40, 00, 64, FF, 30, 64, 89, 20, 33, D2, 55, 68, 41, C8, 40, 00, 64, FF, 32, 64, 89, 22, A1, 60, E6, 40, 00, E8, 5E, FD, FF, FF, E8, C9, F8, FF, FF, 8D, 55, EC, 33, C0, E8, 93, CA, FF, FF, 8B, 55, EC, B8, 8C, F0, 40, 00, E8, 0A, 77, FF, FF, 6A, 02, 6A, 00, 6A, 01, 8B, 0D, 8C, F0, 40, 00, B2, 01...
 
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Entropy:
7.9936

Developed / compiled with:
Microsoft Visual C++

Code size:
46.5 KB (47,616 bytes)

The file weathersetup.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

http://www.viewtheweather.com/.../WeatherSetup.exe

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