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Media Watch home 7756

Media Watch

The application appinstall.exe has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 25 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) installer, however the file is not signed with an authenticode signature from a trusted source. The setup program bundles adware offers using the Amonetize, a Pay-Per-Install (PPI) monetization and distribution download manager. The software offerings provided are based on the PC's geo-location at the time of install.
Publisher:
Media Watch

Product:
Media Watch home 7756

Version:
1.1

MD5:
411382ece90940beb2b7d5e47c8553fd

SHA-1:
7ce7eda5628f67a6b45ff225b5194cb22d977e7c

SHA-256:
6dc9632f1765e52da04a16a29ba4d37048791f50d6750caf1e2548b0c6e12510

Scanner detections:
25 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Explanation:
Installed with software bundlers that offer free applications or games and adds a plugin to Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Chrome and will display ads as the user browses the Internet, both in websites and on search engine results

Analysis date:
4/16/2024 9:20:42 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Gen:Variant.Adware.Graftor.125844
1022

Avira AntiVirus
ADWARE/Adware.Gen
7.11.140.76

avast!
NSIS:Amonetize-G [PUP]
2014.9-140418

AVG
Skodna.Generic_r
2015.0.3500

Baidu Antivirus
Adware.Win32.BetterSurf
4.0.3.14418

Bitdefender
Gen:Variant.Adware.Graftor.125844
1.0.20.540

Comodo Security
Application.Win32.AdWare.BetterSurf.C
18020

Dr.Web
Adware.BetterSurf.2
9.0.1.0108

Emsisoft Anti-Malware
Gen:Variant.Adware.Graftor.125844
8.14.04.18.02

ESET NOD32
Win32/AdWare.BetterSurf (variant)
8.9614

F-Secure
Gen:Variant.Adware.Graftor.125844
11.2014-18-04_6

G Data
Gen:Variant.Adware.Graftor.125844
14.4.24

Kaspersky
not-a-virus:AdWare.Win32.BetterSurf
14.0.0.3997

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.MediaWatch.A
v2014.04.18.02

McAfee
Adware-BetterSurf
5600.7156

Microsoft Security Essentials
Adware:Win32/BetterSurf
1.10401

MicroWorld eScan
Gen:Variant.Adware.Graftor.125844
15.0.0.324

NANO AntiVirus
Riskware.Win32.BetterSurf.cvtdtw
0.28.0.58720

Panda Antivirus
Generic Malware
14.04.18.02

Qihoo 360 Security
Malware.QVM06.Gen
1.0.0.1015

Rising Antivirus
PE:Malware.BetterSurf!6.11BF
23.00.65.14416

Sophos
BetterSurf
4.98

Trend Micro House Call
TROJ_GEN.R0CBC0DCT14
7.2.108

Trend Micro
TROJ_GEN.R0CBC0DCT14
10.465.18

VIPRE Antivirus
Adware.Bettersurf
27870

File size:
634.5 KB (649,730 bytes)

Product version:
1.1

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)

Language:
Language Neutral

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\temp\appinstall.exe

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
12/5/2009 10:50:52 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:6kfUaG4GjeZHkwuPikQ7lKH5p5H9x1reZHkwuXiZQblKh5pDxXTd8zbl:65aG4GjeZEXi37l6Br1reZEviObl2rle

Entry address:
0x30FA

Entry point:
81, EC, 80, 01, 00, 00, 53, 55, 56, 33, DB, 57, 89, 5C, 24, 18, C7, 44, 24, 10, 60, 91, 40, 00, 33, F6, C6, 44, 24, 14, 20, FF, 15, 30, 70, 40, 00, 68, 01, 80, 00, 00, FF, 15, B0, 70, 40, 00, 53, FF, 15, 7C, 72, 40, 00, 6A, 08, A3, 18, EC, 42, 00, E8, F1, 2B, 00, 00, A3, 64, EB, 42, 00, 53, 8D, 44, 24, 34, 68, 60, 01, 00, 00, 50, 53, 68, 98, 8F, 42, 00, FF, 15, 58, 71, 40, 00, 68, 54, 91, 40, 00, 68, 60, E3, 42, 00, E8, A4, 28, 00, 00, FF, 15, AC, 70, 40, 00, BF, 00, 40, 43, 00, 50, 57, E8, 92, 28, 00, 00...
 
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Entropy:
7.9805

Packer / compiler:
Nullsoft install system v2.x

Code size:
23.5 KB (24,064 bytes)

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