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Tube Dimmer

Creative Island Media, LLC

This is part of an adware program designed to inject advertising in the web browser (banners, text-links) as well as modify the normal behavior of the browser as well as modify the computer’s system settings that control applications to run on startup. Part of the Injekt brand of unwanted programs. The module common.dll by Creative Island Media has been detected as adware by 9 anti-malware scanners. It is installed within the context of Internet Explore as a BHO (Browser Helper Object) under the name ‘Tube Dimmer’.
Publisher:
Creative Island Media, LLC  (signed and verified)

Product:
Tube Dimmer

Version:
2.6.53

MD5:
71b03cad3f92fa007d875e4fc3033c83

SHA-1:
6eff2edec999473eda5ade909fa2722d04d9c149

SHA-256:
592b44a5452cc491cfb88fbe51ff4d685ab5c631795acdd3eae03afbe14848ea

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:
4/26/2024 2:36:33 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

avast!
Win32:BHO-AMO [PUP]
2014.9-140621

Dr.Web
Adware.Plugin.128
9.0.1.0172

ESET NOD32
Win32/ExFriendAlert (variant)
8.9726

Fortinet FortiGate
Riskware/ExFriendAlert
6/21/2014

IKARUS anti.virus
AdWare.Agent
t3scan.1.6.1.0

McAfee
Artemis!71B03CAD3F92
5600.7093

Reason Heuristics
PUP.BHO.CreativeIslandMedia.G
14.8.7.20

Sophos
Search Donkey
4.98

VIPRE Antivirus
Injekt
28606

File size:
399.9 KB (409,464 bytes)

Product version:
2.6.53

Copyright:
(c) Creative Island Media, LLC

Original file name:
common.dll

File type:
Dynamic link library (Win32 DLL)

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\ProgramData\tubedimmer\ie\common.dll

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:
12/18/2013 1:19:06 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
10.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
6144:mvMfIfaWWfSPloWs1qSnes/xkmNQcYPX75as/JvXqBUWVoM35itr:JMPXs1nn//9N4PXVajpitr

Entry address:
0x15A0C

Entry point:
8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 83, 7D, 0C, 01, 75, 05, E8, 14, 5D, 00, 00, FF, 75, 08, 8B, 4D, 10, 8B, 55, 0C, E8, EC, FE, FF, FF, 59, 5D, C2, 0C, 00, CC, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 83, EC, 18, 53, 8B, 5D, 0C, 56, 8B, 73, 08, 33, 35, A0, 9C, 04, 10, 57, 8B, 06, C6, 45, FF, 00, C7, 45, F4, 01, 00, 00, 00, 8D, 7B, 10, 83, F8, FE, 74, 0D, 8B, 4E, 04, 03, CF, 33, 0C, 38, E8, EE, C1, FF, FF, 8B, 4E, 0C, 8B, 46, 08, 03, CF, 33, 0C, 38, E8, DE, C1, FF, FF, 8B, 45, 08, F6, 40, 04, 66, 0F, 85, 19, 01, 00, 00, 8B, 4D, 10, 8D, 55, E8...
 
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Entropy:
6.4211

Code size:
232.5 KB (238,080 bytes)

Internet Explorer BHO
Display name:
Tube Dimmer

CLSID:
{44ed99e2-16a6-4b89-80d6-5b21cf42e78b}


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