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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 6 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:
78c26c05677c003a56063c9a7f326908

SHA-1:
d5092981f5627466f514abb636a01009266f8e83

SHA-256:
5d1c930a83843606ae5b8d1fe5f7b3b77276fded3f5e7a85da4f317a1966e26b

Scanner detections:
6 / 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:
4/19/2024 2:55:02 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

G Data
Win32.Application.TubeDimmer
14.4.24

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.SearchDonkey.A
v2014.04.10.10

Reason Heuristics
PUP.CreativeIslandMedia.M
14.8.7.20

Sophos
Search Donkey
4.97

Trend Micro House Call
TROJ_GEN.F47V1226
7.2.100

VIPRE Antivirus
SearchDonkey
25758

File size:
419.9 KB (429,944 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:
5/21/2013 2:00:00 AM

Valid to:
5/22/2014 1:59:59 AM

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:
12/18/2013 6:23:32 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
11.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:FGMg+tea132sMJaEgWdlDr6ML2rjovGNv3:FGON2BarWPr6C0oi3

Entry address:
0x30662

Entry point:
E8, 88, DF, 00, 00, E9, 7F, FE, FF, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 56, 8B, 75, 08, 83, 3C, F5, 70, C9, 45, 00, 00, 75, 13, 56, E8, 71, 00, 00, 00, 59, 85, C0, 75, 08, 6A, 11, E8, 74, 5B, 00, 00, 59, FF, 34, F5, 70, C9, 45, 00, FF, 15, 78, C0, 44, 00, 5E, 5D, C3, 56, 57, BE, 70, C9, 45, 00, 8B, FE, 53, 8B, 1F, 85, DB, 74, 17, 83, 7F, 04, 01, 74, 11, 53, FF, 15, 80, C0, 44, 00, 53, E8, 01, BC, FF, FF, 83, 27, 00, 59, 83, C7, 08, 81, FF, 90, CA, 45, 00, 7C, D8, 5B, 83, 3E, 00, 74, 0E, 83, 7E, 04, 01, 75, 08, FF, 36, FF, 15...
 
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Entropy:
6.4158

Code size:
297 KB (304,128 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)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to d.betterxperience.com  (54.230.13.123:80)

 
http://d.betterxperience.com/updater/dedu.txt

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