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iehelper.exe

Creative Island Media, LLC

This adware background process is controlled and started by the Updater.exe executable (if the process is stopped the updater will restart it) and is desigend to install the BHO/toolbar within the Internet Explorer web borwser and inject and popup various types of ad formats including pop-ups, inline text links and banners. IeHelper is packaged with one of many a branded adware applications (websteriods), from Injekt. The application iehelper.exe by Creative Island Media has been detected as adware by 4 anti-malware scanners.
Publisher:
WatchDog  (signed by Creative Island Media, LLC)

Product:
WatchDog

Version:
3, 0, 0, 1

MD5:
f66b2f8162ef39386a0f16f1d0ecc655

SHA-1:
7e5c0d04e0a22eb981e2fd79715e78eca9085f41

SHA-256:
9f7d5a59ed6e9b6d8f6ddbbb9e3e713158b8fcc5557420e1eff61de36f3a33b3

Scanner detections:
4 / 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:
4/18/2024 11:56:21 PM UTC  (a few moments ago)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Kaspersky
HEUR:Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Generic
14.0.0.3549

Reason Heuristics
PUP.CreativeIslandMedia.I
14.8.7.20

Trend Micro House Call
TROJ_GEN.F47V1117
7.2.198

VIPRE Antivirus
SearchDonkey
23482

File size:
416.9 KB (426,872 bytes)

Product version:
3, 0, 0, 1

Original file name:
dog.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\ProgramData\rhelpers\iehelper\iehelper.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Creative Island Media, LLC

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
5/21/2013 1:00:00 AM

Valid to:
5/22/2014 12:59:59 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:
11/12/2013 6:41:20 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
11.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
6144:E2ioawtuKRRM9KwqgFAwD1v1JK0IEY6LfVxw0eVz/wR9X7cD5n:E2io5RRM9KwX1zKMYyfVsVwPX7cFn

Entry address:
0x30132

Entry point:
E8, 28, D9, 00, 00, E9, 7F, FE, FF, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 56, 8B, 75, 08, 83, 3C, F5, 70, B9, 45, 00, 00, 75, 13, 56, E8, 71, 00, 00, 00, 59, 85, C0, 75, 08, 6A, 11, E8, C4, 5A, 00, 00, 59, FF, 34, F5, 70, B9, 45, 00, FF, 15, 78, B0, 44, 00, 5E, 5D, C3, 56, 57, BE, 70, B9, 45, 00, 8B, FE, 53, 8B, 1F, 85, DB, 74, 17, 83, 7F, 04, 01, 74, 11, 53, FF, 15, 80, B0, 44, 00, 53, E8, 31, BF, FF, FF, 83, 27, 00, 59, 83, C7, 08, 81, FF, 90, BA, 45, 00, 7C, D8, 5B, 83, 3E, 00, 74, 0E, 83, 7E, 04, 01, 75, 08, FF, 36, FF, 15...
 
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Entropy:
6.4204

Code size:
295 KB (302,080 bytes)

The executing file has been seen to make the following network communications in live environments.

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to update.betterxperience.com  (54.218.62.24:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to d.pullupdate.com  (54.230.15.37:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to d.betterxperience.com  (54.230.13.123:80)

 
http://d.betterxperience.com/updater/dedu.txt

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