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markitup.exe

Castel Communication Ltd.

The application markitup.exe by Castel Communication has been detected as adware by 30 anti-malware scanners. This file is typically installed with the program bettermarkit by Revizer Technologies which is a potentially unwanted software program. According to Microsoft Security Essentials, this AddLyrics variant installs itself as a Chrome extension, an Internet Explorer add-on, and a Firefox plug-in and displays advertisements in the browser, and also display the lyrics to songs viewed on YouTube.
Publisher:
Castel Communication Ltd.  (signed and verified)

MD5:
2b6529a6d589af051f6959cd4fd184eb

SHA-1:
62781ac3134209e6a3b79e5d499cec322ff9466c

SHA-256:
18c945f0b04a038baa37f56381b8668db98ce52bda10b74b8794511f4e56a376

Scanner detections:
30 / 68

Status:
Adware

Analysis date:
4/26/2024 4:53:00 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Gen:Variant.Adware.AddLyrics.5
866

Agnitum Outpost
Trojan.Adware
7.1.1

AhnLab V3 Security
Adware/Win32.AddLyrics
14.06.18

Avira AntiVirus
ADWARE/Adware.Gen
7.11.152.50

avast!
Win32:Agent-ASKS [PUP]
2014.9-140618

AVG
Skodna.Generic_r
2015.0.3440

Baidu Antivirus
Adware.Win32.Agent
4.0.3.14921

Bitdefender
Gen:Variant.Adware.AddLyrics.5
1.0.20.845

Comodo Security
Application.Win32.AddLyrics.X
18377

Dr.Web
Trojan.Lyrics.54
9.0.1.0169

Emsisoft Anti-Malware
Gen:Variant.Adware.AddLyrics
8.14.06.18.05

ESET NOD32
Win32/AdWare.AddLyrics (variant)
8.9872

Fortinet FortiGate
Riskware/AddLyrics
6/18/2014

F-Secure
Gen:Variant.Adware.AddLyrics.5
11.2014-18-06_4

G Data
Gen:Variant.Adware.AddLyrics
14.6.24

IKARUS anti.virus
Win32.SuspectCrc
t3scan.1.7.8.0

K7 AntiVirus
Unwanted-Program
13.178.12257

Kaspersky
not-a-virus:AdWare.Win32.Lyckriks
14.0.0.3694

Malwarebytes
Trojan.Agent.ED
v2014.06.18.05

McAfee
Artemis!2B6529A6D589
5600.7096

Microsoft Security Essentials
Adware:Win32/AddLyrics
1.10600

MicroWorld eScan
Gen:Variant.Adware.AddLyrics.5
15.0.0.507

NANO AntiVirus
Trojan.Win32.Lyrics.cxixgm
0.28.2.62151

Quick Heal
Adware.Addlyrics.A5
6.14.14.00

Reason Heuristics
PUP.CastelCommunication.I
14.8.7.21

Rising Antivirus
PE:Trojan.Win32.Generic.164231B6!373436854
23.00.65.14919

Sophos
Generic PUA GC
4.98

Trend Micro House Call
TROJ_GEN.R0C2B01GA14
7.2.264

VIPRE Antivirus
Trojan.Win32.Generic
29774

Zillya! Antivirus
Backdoor.PePatch.Win32.39169
2.0.0.1925

File size:
237.9 KB (243,608 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\Program Files\bettermarkit\markitup.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Castel Communication Ltd.

Authority:
COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:
2/26/2013 2:00:00 AM

Valid to:
2/27/2014 1:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=Castel Communication Ltd., O=Castel Communication Ltd., STREET=5 Oded st., L=Ramat Gan, S=Israel, PostalCode=52223, C=IL

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

Serial number:
4B95965A86A77BF4007748964F3622CC

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
12/15/2013 11:59:45 AM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
10.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
6144:Js//oQZtJMuxow7L+whEEEEEEEEWEEEEEEEEEe:VKtJZxoQ

Entry address:
0x1238A

Entry point:
E8, 69, 8C, 00, 00, E9, 89, FE, FF, FF, 6A, 0C, 68, 58, D2, 42, 00, E8, 60, 3E, 00, 00, 6A, 0E, E8, 66, 8E, 00, 00, 59, 83, 65, FC, 00, 8B, 75, 08, 8B, 4E, 04, 85, C9, 74, 2F, A1, 68, 05, 43, 00, BA, 64, 05, 43, 00, 89, 45, E4, 85, C0, 74, 11, 39, 08, 75, 2C, 8B, 48, 04, 89, 4A, 04, 50, E8, A0, DF, FF, FF, 59, FF, 76, 04, E8, 97, DF, FF, FF, 59, 83, 66, 04, 00, C7, 45, FC, FE, FF, FF, FF, E8, 0A, 00, 00, 00, E8, 4F, 3E, 00, 00, C3, 8B, D0, EB, C5, 6A, 0E, E8, 32, 8D, 00, 00, 59, C3, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 8B...
 
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Entropy:
6.5568

Code size:
138 KB (141,312 bytes)

The file markitup.exe has been discovered within the following program.

bettermarkit  by Revizer Technologies
This is ad-supported software (potentially unwanted adware).
bettermarkit.net
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