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MediaWatchV1home5864.dll

Media Watch home 5864

The module MediaWatchV1home5864.dll has been detected as adware by 27 anti-malware scanners. It is installed within the context of Internet Explore as a BHO (Browser Helper Object) under the name ‘MediaWatchV1home5864’. This file is typically installed with the program Media Watch by Adware.BetterSurf which is a potentially unwanted software program. BetterSurf is a program that comes with software bundlers that offer free applications and will add a plugin to Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Chrome which displays advertisements on websites and search engines. In addition it will redirct various web browsing to various malvertisng sites.
Product:
Media Watch home 5864

Description:
Media Watch

Version:
1.0.0.1

MD5:
418e9a66a578d1fb7e6ea217952657e6

SHA-1:
55361b688accca8bceae7b03d002066f4a4f9ddd

SHA-256:
f1129f09131dd899ddc2a49359fc7689165c4f746a4a6121bd59adf034afaea9

Scanner detections:
27 / 68

Status:
Adware

Explanation:
Installed with software bundlers that offer free applications or games and adds a plugin to Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Chrome and will display ads as the user browses the Internet, both in websites and on search engine results

Analysis date:
4/26/2024 6:34:47 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Gen:Variant.Adware.Graftor.125844
918

Agnitum Outpost
PUA.BetterSurf
7.1.1

Avira AntiVirus
ADWARE/Adware.Gen
7.11.140.114

AVG
Skodna.Generic_r
2015.0.3396

Baidu Antivirus
Adware.Win32.BetterSurf
4.0.3.14731

Bitdefender
Gen:Variant.Adware.Graftor.125844
1.0.20.1060

Comodo Security
Application.Win32.AdWare.BetterSurf.C
18028

Dr.Web
Adware.BetterSurf.2
9.0.1.0212

Emsisoft Anti-Malware
Gen:Variant.Adware.Graftor.125844
8.14.07.31.02

ESET NOD32
Win32/AdWare.BetterSurf (variant)
8.9620

F-Secure
Gen:Variant.Adware.Graftor.125844
11.2014-31-07_5

G Data
Gen:Variant.Adware.Graftor.125844
14.7.24

herdProtect (fuzzy)
variant of mediawatchv1home4357.dll (Adware)
2014.9.10.18

K7 AntiVirus
Unwanted-Program
13.176.11613

Kaspersky
not-a-virus:AdWare.Win32.BetterSurf
14.0.0.3477

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.MediaWatch.A
v2014.07.31.02

McAfee
Adware-BetterSurf
5600.7052

MicroWorld eScan
Gen:Variant.Adware.Graftor.125844
15.0.0.636

NANO AntiVirus
Riskware.Win32.BetterSurf.cvtdtw
0.28.0.58720

Panda Antivirus
Generic Malware
14.07.31.02

Qihoo 360 Security
HEUR/Malware.QVM30.Gen
1.0.0.1015

Reason Heuristics
Adware.MediaWatch.U
14.7.31.14

Rising Antivirus
PE:Malware.BetterSurf!6.11BF
23.00.65.14729

Sophos
BetterSurf
4.98

Trend Micro House Call
TROJ_GEN.R08NC0ECV14
7.2.212

Trend Micro
TROJ_GEN.R08NC0ECV14
10.465.31

VIPRE Antivirus
BetterSurf
27916

File size:
85 KB (87,040 bytes)

Product version:
1.0.0.1

Copyright:
(c) 2012-2014. All rights reserved.

Original file name:
MediaWatchV1home5864.dll

File type:
Dynamic link library (Win32 DLL)

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\Program Files\mediawatchv1\mediawatchv1home5864\ie\mediawatchv1home5864.dll

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
3/20/2014 11:29:04 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
10.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
1536:j8/1CsEmka04RhRtahrOb8DkhhvHA9glQyxW5Z:M12mka0ElahrO1vguayxK

Entry address:
0x7A77

Entry point:
8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 83, 7D, 0C, 01, 75, 05, E8, 3B, 38, 00, 00, FF, 75, 08, 8B, 4D, 10, 8B, 55, 0C, E8, EC, FE, FF, FF, 59, 5D, C2, 0C, 00, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 68, D8, EF, 00, 10, FF, 15, 5C, E0, 00, 10, 85, C0, 74, 15, 68, C8, EF, 00, 10, 50, FF, 15, 60, E0, 00, 10, 85, C0, 74, 05, FF, 75, 08, FF, D0, 5D, C3, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, FF, 75, 08, E8, C8, FF, FF, FF, 59, FF, 75, 08, FF, 15, D4, E0, 00, 10, CC, 6A, 08, E8, 57, 3D, 00, 00, 59, C3, 6A, 08, E8, 75, 3C, 00, 00, 59, C3, 8B, FF, 56, E8, 0F, 19, 00, 00...
 
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Entropy:
6.1072

Code size:
49 KB (50,176 bytes)

Internet Explorer BHO
Display name:
MediaWatchV1home5864

CLSID:
{2c576a2b-4264-4243-bcfb-98764eb98e36}

CLSID name:
Media Watch


The file MediaWatchV1home5864.dll has been discovered within the following program.

Media Watch  by Adware.BetterSurf
Media Watch is an advertising supported application that injects ads in the user's web browser. It uses a cross-framework browser extension to overwrite and include banner and text-link ads.
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