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gpumonitor.exe

White Sea Media

The application gpumonitor.exe by White Sea Media has been detected as adware by 3 anti-malware scanners. This is a trojan Bot that uses IRC to communicate with a comand and control network. The Trojan drops other malicious software and opens a backdoor on the infected computer and will run automatically on each boot. While running, it connects to the Internet address WIN-3GK5LE6AJI7 on port 55900.
Publisher:
White Sea Media  (signed and verified)

MD5:
986d3c960d6f7f4c314723dd94d800c9

SHA-1:
2d0ddfc4ae8ac6e992192d02e14fca53b36fdbc6

SHA-256:
d27eaca29d25360024563b3899578af4a8eb61882670f87563ae7792908a8bb4

Scanner detections:
3 / 68

Status:
Adware

Explanation:
Part of a backdoor IRC bot network.

Analysis date:
4/28/2024 8:18:16 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Dr.Web
Trojan.BtcMine.221
9.0.1.0352

Reason Heuristics
PUP.WhiteSeaMedia.K
14.8.7.21

VIPRE Antivirus
Backdoor.Win32.Ircbot.gen
24460

File size:
968.7 KB (991,984 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Common path:
C:\Program Files\vlc player gpu+\gpumonitor.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
White Sea Media

Authority:
COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:
7/8/2013 2:00:00 AM

Valid to:
7/9/2014 1:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=White Sea Media, O=White Sea Media, STREET=4142 Mariner Blvd, L=Spring Hill, S=FL, PostalCode=34609, C=US

Issuer:
CN=COMODO Code Signing CA 2, O=COMODO CA Limited, L=Salford, S=Greater Manchester, C=GB

Serial number:
1FB235ACA7565BA27ADC702B2BD05C7F

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
8/20/2013 8:25:20 AM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows Console

Linker version:
2.22

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:KZfiyn7eo+hxoTgXTWQrsXNjYK3bhGj3dQQ+pQWtwFyLg4wShhj9BycQlRL4mLhI:sA36qTWpXNLbALSzObPnSdpQl5g8u

Entry address:
0x231000

Entry point:
83, EC, 04, 50, 53, E8, 01, 00, 00, 00, CC, 58, 89, C3, 40, 2D, 00, 50, 0C, 00, 2D, 7F, CF, 09, 10, 05, 74, CF, 09, 10, 80, 3B, CC, 75, 19, C6, 03, 00, BB, 00, 10, 00, 00, 68, DF, 6D, 9F, 41, 68, 10, 7D, 7C, 13, 53, 50, E8, 0A, 00, 00, 00, 83, C0, 00, 89, 44, 24, 08, 5B, 58, C3, 55, 89, E5, 50, 53, 51, 56, 8B, 75, 08, 8B, 4D, 0C, C1, E9, 02, 8B, 45, 10, 8B, 5D, 14, 85, C9, 74, 0A, 31, 06, 01, 1E, 83, C6, 04, 49, EB, F2, 5E, 59, 5B, 58, C9, C2, 10, 00, 35, 55, A6, BA, 3B, E0, 03, 7A, D1, 12, 99, 42, C0, F7...
 
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Entropy:
7.9215  (probably packed)

Code size:
329.5 KB (337,408 bytes)

The executing file has been seen to make the following network communications in live environments.

TCP:
Connects to WIN-74S7P9KP9DF  (50.7.189.170:57310)

TCP:
Connects to WIN-3GK5LE6AJI7  (50.7.135.82:55900)

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