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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. Part of the Injekt brand of unwanted programs. The module helper.dll by Creative Island Media has been detected as adware by 3 anti-malware scanners. It is also typically executed from the user's temporary directory.
Publisher:
Creative Island Media, LLC  (signed and verified)

MD5:
04f12e2340cc901a9ab0c6778dfca48e

SHA-1:
c11c9ba28d5141a1df37ddc04a7e5788aabb056e

SHA-256:
89ab36430e2d7bd850cf12e86a8ce3bbc6726ac68fc7d1ee565302b2744b7684

Scanner detections:
3 / 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 11:25:18 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

ESET NOD32
MSIL/Adware.PullUpdate.A application
8.7.0.302.0

Reason Heuristics
PUP.CreativeIslandMedia.G
14.8.7.20

VIPRE Antivirus
SearchDonkey
24870

File size:
1.3 MB (1,318,264 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:
5/21/2013 2:00:00 AM

Valid to:
5/22/2014 1:59:59 AM

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:
11/19/2013 8:52:37 AM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
11.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:h/TUGxM9zhBMHgxwKXOnjiNArjkVCQgmbmAQ9XeJ/VyGnapq1:5b4fMHgxwKXenhQg2ZQ9XeJ/VyGnapq1

Entry address:
0xD6CDD

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, D8, 0B, 12, 10, E8, 64, 6A, 00, 00, 33, C0, 40, 8B, 75, 0C, 85, F6, 75, 0C, 39, 35, 84, 0A, 13, 10, 0F, 84, E4, 00, 00, 00, 83, 65, FC, 00, 83, FE, 01, 74, 05, 83, FE, 02, 75, 35, 8B, 0D, 78, 53, 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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Developed / compiled with:
Microsoft Visual C++

Code size:
1 MB (1,054,208 bytes)

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