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chromehelper.exe

Creative Island Media, LLC

This adware background process is controlled and started by the Updater.exe executable (if the process is stopped the updater will restart it) and is desigend to install the extension within the Chrome borwser and inject and popup various types of ad formats including pop-ups, inline text links and banners. ChromeHelper is packaged with one of many a branded adware applications, from Injekt. The application chromehelper.exe by Creative Island Media has been detected as adware by 9 anti-malware scanners. While running, it connects to the Internet address update.betterxperience.com on port 80 using the HTTP protocol.
Publisher:
WatchDog  (signed by Creative Island Media, LLC)

Product:
WatchDog

Version:
3, 0, 0, 1

MD5:
62eebedc07dbeef6b91596e66820df42

SHA-1:
8690262d67dcbc05e08934cd2496caa81cc5d268

SHA-256:
d6ffd883e0df9299e0f7cd067ff98ccf454c62cb21a0a029b5cea6b8a78c57bb

Scanner detections:
9 / 68

Status:
Adware

Explanation:
Injects display ads (banner ads), in-text ads, interstitial ads, or other types of ads in the web browser as well as alters the browsers settings (home page, search, DNS, and security protocols).

Analysis date:
5/16/2024 3:22:48 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

AVG
Generic
2016.0.3145

Dr.Web
Adware.Plugin.128
9.0.1.099

ESET NOD32
Win32/ExFriendAlert (variant)
9.10682

IKARUS anti.virus
PUA.ExFriendAlert
t3scan.1.8.3.0

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.SearchDonkey.A
v2013.12.05.09

NANO AntiVirus
Riskware.Win32.Plugin.dbxktm
0.28.6.62995

Reason Heuristics
PUP.CreativeIslandMedia.M
14.8.7.20

Sophos
Search Donkey
4.98

VIPRE Antivirus
SearchDonkey
23830

File size:
245.9 KB (251,768 bytes)

Product version:
3, 0, 0, 1

Original file name:
dog.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\ProgramData\rhelpers\chromehelper\chromehelper.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Creative Island Media, LLC

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
5/20/2013 8:00:00 PM

Valid to:
5/21/2014 7:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN="Creative Island Media, LLC", OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O="Creative Island Media, LLC", 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:
68F23F4D2767F6491DEA9186F2E5CB89

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
9/25/2013 2:47:43 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
10.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
3072:C1hDqIZLwlmnWN/68zIyrjSHoWT0Cp2kL93YabMtfxMKZ4b+Wry9n5XtQwnPM2b0:C11JZc3sZ1sD46/PQAEjj5DTF6Cvf

Entry address:
0x160EB

Entry point:
E8, 68, 96, 00, 00, E9, 89, FE, FF, FF, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 8B, 45, 08, 85, C0, 74, 12, 83, E8, 08, 81, 38, DD, DD, 00, 00, 75, 07, 50, E8, F8, D4, FF, FF, 59, 5D, C3, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 83, EC, 10, A1, 20, 29, 43, 00, 33, C5, 89, 45, FC, 8B, 55, 18, 53, 33, DB, 56, 57, 3B, D3, 7E, 1F, 8B, 45, 14, 8B, CA, 49, 38, 18, 74, 08, 40, 3B, CB, 75, F6, 83, C9, FF, 8B, C2, 2B, C1, 48, 3B, C2, 7D, 01, 40, 89, 45, 18, 89, 5D, F8, 39, 5D, 24, 75, 0B, 8B, 45, 08, 8B, 00, 8B, 40, 04, 89, 45, 24, 8B, 35, CC, 90, 42, 00...
 
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Entropy:
6.3366

Code size:
159.5 KB (163,328 bytes)

The executing file has been seen to make the following network communications in live environments.

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to update.betterxperience.com  (54.218.62.24:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to d.pullupdate.com  (54.230.15.37:80)

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