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IACNativeMsgHost.exe

IAC Native Messaging Host

IAC Search and Media

This is a component of the Ask.com toolbar, a browser extension that will modify the default web browser's search provider, home page and various other settings. The application IACNativeMsgHost.exe by IAC Search and Media has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat.
Publisher:
IAC Search and Media  (signed and verified)

Product:
IAC Native Messaging Host

Version:
1.0.0.92

MD5:
7d47fde46a5beab2c333b99c2674efeb

SHA-1:
57dff8464d1b1f864f0cec56c386f7a68c156612

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Note:
Our current pool of anti-malware engines have not currently detected this file, however based on our own detection heuristics we feel that this file is unwanted.

Analysis date:
4/23/2024 6:31:09 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Ask (M)
17.1.18.13

File size:
160.4 KB (164,224 bytes)

Product version:
1.0.0.92

Copyright:
(c) 2014 IAC Search and Media, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Original file name:
IACNativeMsgHost.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\Documents and Settings\{user}\Application data\ilividbandoomoviestoolbar\gc\iacnativemsghost.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
IAC Search and Media

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
1/23/2014 5:30:00 AM

Valid to:
10/21/2015 5:29:59 AM

Subject:
CN=IAC Search and Media, OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O=IAC Search and Media, L=Oakland, 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:
5367F5135FCC8B151C3E3EE4BEFD1DFB

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
6/23/2014 11:49:46 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows Console

Linker version:
10.0

Entry address:
0x10489

Entry point:
E8, 6D, 46, 00, 00, E9, 95, FE, FF, FF, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 83, EC, 20, 8B, 45, 08, 56, 57, 6A, 08, 59, BE, 24, E2, 41, 00, 8D, 7D, E0, F3, A5, 89, 45, F8, 8B, 45, 0C, 5F, 89, 45, FC, 5E, 85, C0, 74, 0C, F6, 00, 08, 74, 07, C7, 45, F4, 00, 40, 99, 01, 8D, 45, F4, 50, FF, 75, F0, FF, 75, E4, FF, 75, E0, FF, 15, 88, E0, 41, 00, C9, C2, 08, 00, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 81, EC, 28, 03, 00, 00, A3, 88, 63, 42, 00, 89, 0D, 84, 63, 42, 00, 89, 15, 80, 63, 42, 00, 89, 1D, 7C, 63, 42, 00, 89, 35, 78, 63, 42, 00, 89, 3D...
 
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Entropy:
6.4807

Code size:
112.5 KB (115,200 bytes)

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