The domain www.pdf-readers.com is registered by proxy through PDR LTD. D/B/A PUBLICDOMAINREGISTRY.COM 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 Ashburn, Virginia within the United States which resides on the Amazon Technologies Inc. network. The domain uses the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing platform.
Registrant:
Privacy Protection Service INC d/b/a PrivacyProtect.org
Registrar:
PDR LTD. D/B/A PUBLICDOMAINREGISTRY.COM
Server location:
Virginia, United States (US)
Create date:
Thursday, February 13, 2014
Expires date:
Monday, February 13, 2017
Updated date:
Monday, January 25, 2016
ASN:
AS14618 AMAZON-AES - Amazon.com, Inc.,US
Scanner detections:
Detections (100% detected)
Scan engine
Details
Detections
Reason Heuristics
PUP.Installer.ICSSetup.O, PUP.Installer.PersonalCleaner.O, PUP.Installer.ICSSetup.S, PUP.Installer.ironSource, PUP.Bundler.ironSource, PUP.installCore.SoftInstall.Installer (M), PUP.installCore.ICSSetup.Installer (M), PUP.installCore (M)
100.00%
ESET NOD32
Win32/InstallCore.NF potentially unwanted application, Win32/InstallCore.LM potentially unwanted application, Win32/Injected.F trojan
16.00%
Sophos
Install Core Click run software, PUA 'Install Core Click run software'
14.00%
VIPRE Antivirus
Threat.4150696, Threat.4788237
12.00%
Dr.Web
Trojan.MulDrop5.10078, Trojan.Packed.24524, Adware.InstallCore.157
10.00%
McAfee
CryptInno!4527E74FC5AF, Trojan.Artemis!C483AF02927D, CryptInno!266E89C5FD05
8.00%
G Data
Win32.Application.InstallCore, Win32.Application.InstallCore.AE, Win32.Adware.InstallCore.BV
8.00%
Zillya! Antivirus
Backdoor.PePatch.Win32.37917, Adware.InstallCore.Win32.44
6.00%
K7 AntiVirus
Unwanted-Program
6.00%
Avira AntiVirus
Adware/InstallCore.Y
4.00%
avast!
Dropper-gen [Drp]
2.00%
Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.InstallCore
2.00%
Kaspersky
not-a-virus:AdWare.Win32.InstallCore
2.00%
SUPERAntiSpyware
PUP.InstallCore/Variant
2.00%
The domain www.pdf-readers.com has been seen to resolve to the following 9 IP addresses.
ec2-54-84-209-207.compute-1.amazonaws.com
April 10, 2016
ec2-54-88-93-196.compute-1.amazonaws.com
April 1, 2016
ec2-54-88-203-136.compute-1.amazonaws.com
December 16, 2015
ec2-54-85-139-155.compute-1.amazonaws.com
March 5, 2015
ec2-54-209-82-48.compute-1.amazonaws.com
July 31, 2014
ec2-54-76-109-19.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com
June 5, 2014
ec2-54-229-8-90.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com
June 5, 2014
ec2-176-34-153-62.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com
May 21, 2014
ec2-54-194-187-130.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com
May 21, 2014
File downloads found at URLs served by www.pdf-readers.com.
URL:
http://www.pdf-readers.com/
Network:
Amazon Web Services (AWS), running an EC2 instance