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D2M-Precheck.exe

D2M-Precheck

Adknowledge

This adware bundler is distributed through Adknowledge's advertising supported software managers. The application D2M-Precheck.exe has been detected as adware by 4 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the Adknowledge Fusion installer, however the file is not signed with an authenticode signature from a trusted source. It is also typically executed from the user's temporary directory. The file has been seen being downloaded from ddnw0hpcyyfnj.cloudfront.net.
Publisher:
Adknowledge

Product:
D2M-Precheck

Version:
1.0.0.0

MD5:
16f7b1724623b96f75d0a0171c92f8fc

SHA-1:
1a8bf1db4ae97267cb04edb317c06e742dc3b511

SHA-256:
ba0b99a7337dc7adb823d07a85b85bdcf2b9f7b718de4fdcf3c153daedf58bde

Scanner detections:
4 / 68

Status:
Adware

Explanation:
This installer bundles various adware prorgams that may include toolbars and web browser advertising injectors/extensions.

Description:
This 'download manager' is also considered bundleware, a utility designed to download software (possibly legitimate or opensource) and bundle it with a number of optional offers including ad-supported utilities, toolbars, shopping comparison tools and browser extensions.

Analysis date:
5/5/2024 1:22:55 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
Adware.AdKnowledge.Adknowledge.M
14.8.29.9

Trend Micro House Call
ADW_ADKLEDGE
7.2.241

Trend Micro
ADW_ADKLEDGE
10.465.29

ViRobot
Backdoor.Win32.A.Hupigon.503296.F
2011.4.7.4223

File size:
491.5 KB (503,296 bytes)

Product version:
1.0.0.0

Copyright:
Copyright © Adknowledge 2013

Original file name:
D2M-Precheck.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
Adknowledge Fusion

Language:
Language Neutral

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\temp\d2m-precheck.exe

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
5/10/2013 6:16:42 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
11.0

.NET CLR dependent:
Yes

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:GRknTJ1VsfsR0KSkmKTMyK0asZMpWjmUWZV:GRdUiYvTuiqoSP

Entry address:
0x7C26E

Entry point:
FF, 25, 00, 20, 40, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00...
 
[+]

Entropy:
7.9679

Developed / compiled with:
Microsoft Visual C# / Basic .NET

Code size:
489 KB (500,736 bytes)

The file D2M-Precheck.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

http://ddnw0hpcyyfnj.cloudfront.net/D2M-Precheck.exe

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