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White Sea Media

The application installer.exe by White Sea Media has been detected as adware by 25 anti-malware scanners. This is a self-extracting archive and installer and has been known to bundle potentially unwanted software. This is a malicious Bitcoin miner. Bitcoin-mining malware is designed to force computers to generate Bitcoins for cybercriminals' use and consumes computing power.
Publisher:
White Sea Media  (signed and verified)

MD5:
45d804f33b2d1ae0c811716297875ccd

SHA-1:
3a175a5031bd7275361368b9736dd41ac7eace27

Scanner detections:
25 / 68

Status:
Adware

Explanation:
Part of a backdoor IRC bot network.

Analysis date:
4/25/2024 6:10:17 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Trojan.Generic.10463694
835

Agnitum Outpost
Trojan.CoinMiner
7.1.1

AhnLab V3 Security
Trojan/Win32.BitCoinMiner
2014.10.03

Avira AntiVirus
TR/Rogue.10463694
7.11.176.96

avast!
Win32:BitCoinMiner-FC [Trj]
2014.9-141022

AVG
Generic
2015.0.3313

Bitdefender
Trojan.Generic.10463694
1.0.20.1475

Bkav FE
HW32.Paked
1.3.0.4959

Comodo Security
UnclassifiedMalware
19687

Dr.Web
Trojan.BtcMine.221
9.0.1.0295

Emsisoft Anti-Malware
Trojan.Generic.10463694
8.14.10.22.04

ESET NOD32
Win32/CoinMiner.JO (variant)
8.10503

Fortinet FortiGate
W32/CoinMiner.JO!tr
10/22/2014

F-Secure
Trojan.Generic.10463694
11.2014-22-10_4

G Data
Trojan.Generic.10463694
14.10.24

IKARUS anti.virus
Trojan.SuspectCRC
t3scan.1.7.8.0

McAfee
Artemis!45D804F33B2D
5600.6969

MicroWorld eScan
Trojan.Generic.10463694
15.0.0.885

Norman
CoinMiner.S
11.20141022

nProtect
Trojan.Generic.10463694
14.10.02.01

Qihoo 360 Security
Win32/Trojan.c7f
1.0.0.1015

Reason Heuristics
PUP.WhiteSeaMedia.J
14.10.22.16

Rising Antivirus
PE:Trojan.Win32.Generic.16B862F2!381182706
23.00.65.141020

Total Defense
Win32/BitcoinMiner.AWYSCIC
37.0.11209

VIPRE Antivirus
Backdoor.Win32.Ircbot.gen
33622

File size:
1.2 MB (1,262,304 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Common path:
C:\Program Files\vlc player gpu+\installer.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
White Sea Media

Authority:
COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:
7/8/2013 3:00:00 AM

Valid to:
7/9/2014 2:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=White Sea Media, O=White Sea Media, STREET=4142 Mariner Blvd, L=Spring Hill, S=FL, PostalCode=34609, C=US

Issuer:
CN=COMODO Code Signing CA 2, O=COMODO CA Limited, L=Salford, S=Greater Manchester, C=GB

Serial number:
1FB235ACA7565BA27ADC702B2BD05C7F

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
12/27/2013 4:24:52 AM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows Console

Linker version:
10.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:bcJwRat3i/k/4JfBXHnjsgESPEUExddRaOROvsBa41Dh4UL50nQ:wJQIofdVJPAxrRnhp1SUN0Q

Entry address:
0x33A000

Entry point:
83, EC, 04, 50, 53, E8, 01, 00, 00, 00, CC, 58, 89, C3, 40, 2D, 00, 90, 12, 00, 2D, 8F, 8E, 0A, 10, 05, 84, 8E, 0A, 10, 80, 3B, CC, 75, 19, C6, 03, 00, BB, 00, 10, 00, 00, 68, 67, 98, C5, 63, 68, 43, DA, 7B, 1C, 53, 50, E8, 0A, 00, 00, 00, 83, C0, 00, 89, 44, 24, 08, 5B, 58, C3, 55, 89, E5, 50, 53, 51, 56, 8B, 75, 08, 8B, 4D, 0C, C1, E9, 02, 8B, 45, 10, 8B, 5D, 14, 85, C9, 74, 0A, 31, 06, 01, 1E, 83, C6, 04, 49, EB, F2, 5E, 59, 5B, 58, C9, C2, 10, 00, 7E, 02, A6, C9, 60, 58, A3, C1, 40, 98, C5, A5, 4E, 14...
 
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Code size:
48 KB (49,152 bytes)

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