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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 12 anti-malware scanners. It is also typically executed from the user's temporary directory.
Publisher:
Creative Island Media, LLC  (signed and verified)

MD5:
d721b5948291e05a74422d065f5a28c4

SHA-1:
8f4f1619f3e2de0384d930648ad9656a1327168f

SHA-256:
bf13f77991265d28a7b89a3acc4bd9a6e82bfb7a6e9889b4c685d1cfb8de0f68

Scanner detections:
12 / 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:
4/16/2024 11:58:28 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Gen:Variant.Adware.Graftor.143453
819

Avira AntiVirus
ADWARE/Adware.Gen
7.11.159.112

Bitdefender
Gen:Variant.Adware.Graftor.143453
1.0.20.1555

Comodo Security
ApplicUnwnt
18815

Emsisoft Anti-Malware
Gen:Variant.Adware.Graftor.143453
8.14.11.07.09

ESET NOD32
MSIL/Adware.PullUpdate (variant)
8.10067

F-Secure
Gen:Variant.Adware.Graftor.143453
11.2014-07-11_6

G Data
Gen:Variant.Adware.Graftor.143453
14.11.24

IKARUS anti.virus
PUA.CIM
t3scan.1.6.1.0

MicroWorld eScan
Gen:Variant.Adware.Graftor.143453
15.0.0.933

Reason Heuristics
PUP.CreativeIslandMedia.G
14.11.7.21

VIPRE Antivirus
Injekt
31108

File size:
1.2 MB (1,292,152 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:
11/8/2013 2:23:44 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
11.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:FC6ifPsncUtARLjvfZfnqM90jV+taMYTx+ZW+mo8QUWB1MgVYaoFcZBg:FWsYjvfZfnqojYTx+s+mo8QUWB1MgCfj

Entry address:
0xD20AD

Entry point:
55, 8B, EC, 83, 7D, 0C, 01, 75, 05, E8, 44, E4, 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, A0, A9, 11, 10, E8, 64, 6A, 00, 00, 33, C0, 40, 8B, 75, 0C, 85, F6, 75, 0C, 39, 35, A4, AA, 12, 10, 0F, 84, E4, 00, 00, 00, 83, 65, FC, 00, 83, FE, 01, 74, 05, 83, FE, 02, 75, 35, 8B, 0D, 88, F3, 0F, 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:
6.5947

Developed / compiled with:
Microsoft Visual C++

Code size:
1007.5 KB (1,031,680 bytes)

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