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helper.dll

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 helper.dll by Creative Island Media has been detected as adware by 2 anti-malware scanners. It is also typically executed from the user's temporary directory.
Publisher:
Creative Island Media, LLC  (signed and verified)

MD5:
40fbf007fba405318a10730b4f5073e2

SHA-1:
1b7a5e2cd03d23e10fb7e6b30ddafadd69f601e2

SHA-256:
11046b09a4056e04f80db12a9504f11f87249a0a12a2e9a35691bc266d6410b2

Scanner detections:
2 / 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 2:37:39 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.CreativeIslandMedia.G
14.8.7.20

VIPRE Antivirus
SearchDonkey
26140

File size:
1.3 MB (1,349,496 bytes)

File type:
Dynamic link library (Win32 DLL)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\temp\{random}.tmp\helper.dll

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Creative Island Media, LLC

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
5/20/2013 8:00:00 PM

Valid to:
5/21/2014 7:59:59 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:
68F23F4D2767F6491DEA9186F2E5CB89

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
12/17/2013 8:58:43 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
11.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:gX+OXVhHCBbGJHqjGFIvoGSdzjNBe/YmM8:glVhHCBbGe0LGS9jNBe/YmM8

Entry address:
0xDB6ED

Entry point:
55, 8B, EC, 83, 7D, 0C, 01, 75, 05, E8, 97, E9, 00, 00, FF, 75, 10, FF, 75, 0C, FF, 75, 08, E8, 07, 00, 00, 00, 83, C4, 0C, 5D, C2, 0C, 00, 6A, 0C, 68, B8, 5F, 12, 10, E8, 64, 6A, 00, 00, 33, C0, 40, 8B, 75, 0C, 85, F6, 75, 0C, 39, 35, 58, 73, 13, 10, 0F, 84, E4, 00, 00, 00, 83, 65, FC, 00, 83, FE, 01, 74, 05, 83, FE, 02, 75, 35, 8B, 0D, 4C, A3, 10, 10, 85, C9, 74, 0C, FF, 75, 10, 56, FF, 75, 08, FF, D1, 89, 45, E4, 85, C0, 0F, 84, B1, 00, 00, 00, FF, 75, 10, 56, FF, 75, 08, E8, 11, FE, FF, FF, 89, 45, E4...
 
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Entropy:
6.5915

Developed / compiled with:
Microsoft Visual C++

Code size:
1 MB (1,075,712 bytes)

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