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

MD5:
ce8f3b55dce933eb567205c69819130b

SHA-1:
91b8b13157f2f44bd2b64fe8fa19a7773904b1b9

SHA-256:
b09c1c3a3a5f0d0dc172acd5a76291f8babef890ffe2f5543843f4a6e5cc8ee5

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:
4/26/2024 3:26:16 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.CreativeIslandMedia.G
14.11.12.19

VIPRE Antivirus
SearchDonkey
23592

File size:
1.2 MB (1,251,704 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:
10/22/2013 1:04:35 AM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
11.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:yN6mtciOsRbsKpDTuVCxUOAM+J3L6XsoOQ1RrMOvSHizLmjcF:yQiOsRbsqeY+J+XsoOQ1RrMOvSHinmjI

Entry address:
0xCBECD

Entry point:
55, 8B, EC, 83, 7D, 0C, 01, 75, 05, E8, C4, 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, C0, 32, 11, 10, E8, 64, 6A, 00, 00, 33, C0, 40, 8B, 75, 0C, 85, F6, 75, 0C, 39, 35, A4, 18, 12, 10, 0F, 84, E4, 00, 00, 00, 83, 65, FC, 00, 83, FE, 01, 74, 05, 83, FE, 02, 75, 35, 8B, 0D, D0, 82, 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:
6.6030

Developed / compiled with:
Microsoft Visual C++

Code size:
976.5 KB (999,936 bytes)

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