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claraupdater.exe

ClaraUpdater

CLARALABSOFTWARE

The application claraupdater.exe by CLARALABSOFTWARE has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. This is a setup program which is used to install the application. It runs as a windows Service named “ClaraUpdater”. Additionally, the file is typically installed by a number of programs including I - Cinema by Bright circle investments Ltd. and BoBrowser by BoBrowser, both potentially unwanted software. The file has been seen being downloaded from vzbucket.clara-labs.com.

File name:

claraupdater.exe

Publisher:

ClaraLabs (signed by CLARALABSOFTWARE)

Product:

ClaraUpdater

Version:

2.47.3.2

MD5:

27a97ec4bbd8987cb29f91c6e962542d

SHA-1:

e996be784bf71a5bf8bc5ff598deab8427af64de

SHA-256:

acb0cac8b5be15c4cb44438ccdee87cbbed621a495735d823380b7e5596507d1

Scanner detections:

1 / 68

Status:

Potentially unwanted

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:

4/23/2024 6:42:42 AM UTC (today)

Scan engine

Detection

Engine version

Reason Heuristics

PUP.Service.CLARALABSOFTWARE.M

14.11.27.1

File size:

320.6 KB (328,304 bytes)

Product version:

2.47.3.2

Original file name:

Updater.exe

File type:

Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:

English (United States)

Common path:

C:\Program Files\common files\claraupdater\claraupdater.exe

Digital Signature

Signed by:

CLARALABSOFTWARE

Authority:

GlobalSign nv-sa

Valid from:

7/29/2014 10:13:08 AM

Valid to:

7/30/2015 10:13:08 AM

Subject:

CN=CLARALABSOFTWARE, O=CLARALABSOFTWARE, L=Paris, C=FR

Issuer:

CN=GlobalSign CodeSigning CA - SHA256 - G2, O=GlobalSign nv-sa, C=BE

Serial number:

1121E6E5C72C946A5248674AB7B56E24B246

File PE Metadata

Compilation timestamp:

11/19/2014 5:11:08 PM

OS version:

5.1

OS bitness:

Win32

Subsystem:

Windows GUI

Linker version:

12.0

CTPH (ssdeep):

3072:BrfU/u6WZsI/bw0okXQMqYUXkRXPOFwZPvOWiY1T+FiRKeiabWAJA7jT+xWwKJEU:p7BZKcQMqYUXyIgiVAJAfTVbWfOCe

Entry address:

0x1C3AC

Entry point:

E8, 17, F1, 00, 00, E9, 7F, FE, FF, FF, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, 57, 56, 8B, 74, 24, 10, 8B, 4C, 24, 14, 8B, 7C, 24, 0C, 8B, C1, 8B, D1, 03, C6, 3B, FE, 76, 08, 3B, F8, 0F, 82, 68, 03, 00, 00, 0F, BA, 25, 10, B8, 44, 00, 01, 73, 07, F3, A4, E9, 17, 03, 00, 00, 81, F9, 80, 00, 00, 00, 0F, 82, CE, 01, 00, 00, 8B, C7, 33, C6, A9, 0F, 00, 00, 00, 75, 0E, 0F, BA, 25, 70, 97, 44, 00, 01, 0F, 82, DA, 04, 00, 00, 0F, BA, 25, 10, B8, 44, 00, 00, 0F, 83, A7, 01, 00, 00, F7, C7, 03, 00, 00, 00, 0F, 85... 
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Code size:

222.5 KB (227,840 bytes)

Service

Display name:

ClaraUpdater

Type:

Win32OwnProcess, InteractiveProcess

The file claraupdater.exe has been discovered within the following programs.

BoBrowser by BoBrowser

38% remove it

I - Cinema by Bright circle investments Ltd.

i - cinema is a web browser extension that injects display advertising in the user's browser. Ads are displayed in the form of banners and contextual text-links and are both injected in white space areas of the HTML page or over existing ads of the underlying web site.

88% remove it

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

http://vzbucket.clara-labs.com/267f64d7-5811-419d-b4ff-d5c9afe1a8dd/build/.../ebf87fa7-b488-487f-9971-c96f16e9c35d.exe

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

TCP (HTTP):

Connects to ec2-23-23-112-220.compute-1.amazonaws.com (23.23.112.220:80)

TCP (HTTP):

Connects to ec2-50-19-113-170.compute-1.amazonaws.com (50.19.113.170:80)

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