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notifier.exe

Notifications

Passion Fruit Tech

The file is part of Wajam, a web browser extension that injects social search integration into various search portals such as Google. The application notifier.exe by Passion Fruit Tech has been detected as adware by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. It is set to automatically execute when any user logs into Windows (through the local user run registry setting) with the name ‘Playzy’.
Publisher:
Wajamu  (signed by Passion Fruit Tech)

Product:
Notifications

Description:
Notications

Version:
1.0.0.2

MD5:
8f4dec2042c03baf7f01e3ed7d74f673

SHA-1:
d38d4d8828071fe0ff75c4519a427538060d5a79

SHA-256:
14e8b1be16e759c57580b140fd91f9cac556486a30496ecd1357c8938b1dd90b

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Adware

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:
4/26/2024 5:05:37 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Startup.PassionFruitTech.I
14.8.31.22

File size:
409.3 KB (419,152 bytes)

Product version:
1.0.0.2

Copyright:
Wajamu. All rights reserved.

Original file name:
notifier.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\Program Files\playzy\notifier.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Passion Fruit Tech

Authority:
COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:
7/20/2014 7:00:00 PM

Valid to:
7/21/2015 6:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Passion Fruit Tech, O=Passion Fruit Tech, STREET=Rakefet, L=Hod Hasharon, S=Israel, PostalCode=4520634, C=IL

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

Serial number:
3505FC58261F9FA827A43371A3AAEC54

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
7/22/2014 3:28:06 AM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
11.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
6144:PLQVkvJZwZF7hiaKcJRgcP9M0AAE9bVCp:Pe0a1i7cvP9P0VCp

Entry address:
0x23246

Entry point:
E8, F7, 83, 00, 00, E9, 7F, FE, FF, FF, 83, 3D, 90, D9, 44, 00, 01, 72, 5F, 0F, B6, 44, 24, 08, 8B, D0, C1, E0, 08, 0B, D0, 66, 0F, 6E, DA, F2, 0F, 70, DB, 00, 0F, 16, DB, 8B, 54, 24, 04, B9, 0F, 00, 00, 00, 83, C8, FF, 23, CA, D3, E0, 2B, D1, F3, 0F, 6F, 0A, 66, 0F, EF, D2, 66, 0F, 74, D1, 66, 0F, 74, CB, 66, 0F, EB, D1, 66, 0F, D7, CA, 23, C8, 75, 08, 83, C8, FF, 83, C2, 10, EB, DC, 0F, BC, C1, 03, C2, 66, 0F, 7E, DA, 33, C9, 3A, 10, 0F, 45, C1, C3, 33, C0, 8A, 44, 24, 08, 53, 8B, D8, C1, E0, 08, 8B, 54...
 
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Entropy:
5.9956

Code size:
231 KB (236,544 bytes)

Startup File (All Users Run)
Registry location:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

Name:
Playzy

Command:
C:\Program Files\playzy\notifier.exe


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

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to s3-1-w.amazonaws.com  (54.231.73.35:80)

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