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Websteroids

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 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. It is installed within the context of Internet Explore as a BHO (Browser Helper Object) under the name ‘Websteroids’.
Publisher:
Creative Island Media, LLC  (signed and verified)

Product:
Websteroids

Version:
2.7.35

MD5:
17287621e7b1c0177785c7a7e9ecaeae

SHA-1:
f663662e80659da88c54a5637c762aa5509b56fc

SHA-256:
9fbaae1a1277e083a3e2d51c6e186be44d41af50141a19636ba647a88d19e24c

Scanner detections:
1 / 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:
4/25/2024 1:00:38 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Injekt (M)
16.8.9.2

File size:
399.4 KB (408,952 bytes)

Product version:
2.7.35

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\websteroids\ie\common.dll

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Creative Island Media, LLC

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
3/23/2014 5:00:00 PM

Valid to:
6/23/2015 4:59:59 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:
0ED42A15C608C5CB28B1EF56CE392E5E

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

ProgID:
DynConIE.DynConIEObject.1

COM registered:
Yes

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
8/29/2014 5:39:48 AM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
10.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
6144:xvEn4PCCW0W9FUvs1bSnO87xkWtoULk4PXd52UTSmqBUWVoM3Kittud:a59Ks12n/7NtXPX72x6ittK

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:
6.4252

Code size:
232.5 KB (238,080 bytes)

Internet Explorer BHO
Display name:
Websteroids

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


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