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Domain Information

The domain cloudupdates.biz is registered by proxy through ENOM, INC. and was originally registered in February of 2014. This domain has been known to host and distribute adware as well as other potentially unwanted software. The hosted servers are located in Portland, Oregon within the United States which resides on the Amazon.com, Inc. network. The domain uses the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing platform from the US West (Oregon) region datacenter.
Registrar:
ENOM, INC.

Server location:
Oregon, United States (US)

Create date:
Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Expires date:
Wednesday, February 4, 2015

Updated date:
Wednesday, February 5, 2014

ASN:
AS16509 AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc.

Whois:
1 cloudupdates.biz record

Scanner detections:
Detections  (100% detected)

Scan engine
Details
Detections

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Installer.WARPINSTALL.M
100.00%

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.OptimumInstaller.A
100.00%

Kaspersky
not-a-virus:Downloader.Win32.Agent
100.00%

NANO AntiVirus
Trojan.Win32.Agent.cuwars
100.00%

Comodo Security
Application.Win32.iBryte.IHT
100.00%

Dr.Web
Adware.Downware.2249
100.00%

VIPRE Antivirus
Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Agent
100.00%

Avira AntiVirus
Adware/iBryte.qoemnj
100.00%

Sophos
iBryte Optimum Installer
100.00%

Vba32 AntiVirus
Downloader.Agent
100.00%

ESET NOD32
Win32/AdWare.iBryte (variant)
100.00%

Rising Antivirus
PE:Malware.iBryte!6.14B5
100.00%

AVG
Skodna.Generic
100.00%

Panda Antivirus
Trj/Genetic.gen
100.00%

Qihoo 360 Security
Malware.QVM10.Gen
100.00%

The domain cloudupdates.biz has been seen to resolve to the following IP address.

54.200.40.74
ec2-54-200-40-74.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com
March 27, 2014

File downloads found at URLs served by cloudupdates.biz.

15 / 68    (Adware)
http://cloudupdates.biz/browser-update/.../install.php?sid=&uid=&source=D-Chrome-Media1&transaction_id=4e95310f-92a6-42bd-a72b-2912a4410fd7  (chrome_setup.exe)

The following file have been seen to comunicate with cloudupdates.biz in live environments.

TCP » 54.200.40.74:80
WajamInternetEnhancer.exe (Wajam Internet Enhancer by Wajam Internet Technologies)

URL:
http://cloudupdates.biz/

Network:
Amazon Web Services (AWS), running an EC2 instance

Web server:
Apache/2.2.22 (Ubuntu) (PHP/5.3.10-1ubuntu3.10)

Facebook:
Shares:  1

Twitter:
Shares:  16

Alexa:
US rank:  254,537
Global rank:  2,268,663

Statistics above are for the previous month of April 2024.

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