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Media Codecs Pack

White Sea Media

The application prefetch.exe, “Setup Application” by White Sea Media has been detected as adware by 28 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the Setup Factory installer. This is a malicious Bitcoin miner. Bitcoin-mining malware is designed to force computers to generate Bitcoins for cybercriminals' use and consumes computing power. It is also typically executed from the user's temporary directory.
Publisher:
White Sea Media  (signed and verified)

Product:
Media Codecs Pack

Description:
Setup Application

Version:
1.0.4.0

MD5:
be07cd01dec2613688aa709b5d33fd2b

SHA-1:
4e2cdf9968a639e660fb14aaac28bf4381c7fe60

SHA-256:
2250b78c8ff4260c14d1cca8cf8ae1ec6a4821c5dd20160276af732c1276dae9

Scanner detections:
28 / 68

Status:
Adware

Explanation:
The program will mine for BitCoins using the computer's GPU in the background and may be installed and run without the user's knowledge.

Analysis date:
4/25/2024 10:46:00 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Gen:Variant.Strictor.49187
356

AhnLab V3 Security
Unwanted/Win32.BitCoinMiner
2014.01.23

Avira AntiVirus
TR/Rogue.10455890
7.11.136.228

avast!
Win32:BitCoinMiner-FC [Trj]
2014.9-160214

AVG
CoinMiner
2017.0.2834

Bitdefender
Gen:Variant.Strictor.49187
1.0.20.225

Bkav FE
W32.Clod8d8.Trojan
1.3.0.4613

Comodo Security
UnclassifiedMalware
17671

Dr.Web
Trojan.BtcMine.221
9.0.1.045

Emsisoft Anti-Malware
Gen:Variant.Strictor.49187
8.16.02.14.12

ESET NOD32
Win32/CoinMiner.JO (variant)
10.9340

Fortinet FortiGate
W32/CoinMiner.JO!tr
2/14/2016

F-Secure
Gen:Variant.Strictor.49187
11.2016-14-02_1

G Data
Gen:Variant.Strictor.49187
16.2.24

IKARUS anti.virus
Win32.BitCoinMiner
t3scan.2.2.29

McAfee
Artemis!C2404B80B548
5600.6490

MicroWorld eScan
Gen:Variant.Strictor.49187
17.0.0.135

NANO AntiVirus
Trojan.Win32.BtcMine.csuxrx
0.28.0.57473

Norman
CoinMiner.S
11.20160214

nProtect
Trojan.GenericKD.1501676
14.01.23.01

Qihoo 360 Security
Win32/Trojan.c7f
1.0.0.1015

Reason Heuristics
PUP.WhiteSeaMedia.Installer (M)
16.2.14.0

Sophos
Generic PUA LF
4.98

Trend Micro House Call
TROJ_GEN.F47V0111
7.2.45

Trend Micro
TROJ_GEN.R0CBC0OB314
10.465.14

Vba32 AntiVirus
Trojan.Miner.abi
3.12.24.3

VIPRE Antivirus
Trojan.Win32.Generic
25850

Zillya! Antivirus
Trojan.CoinMiner.Win32.389
2.0.0.2084

File size:
6.6 MB (6,965,280 bytes)

Product version:
1.0.4.0

Copyright:
White Sea Media Copyright ?1992-2012 White Sea Media

Trademarks:
White Sea Media is a trademark of White Sea Media

Original file name:
suf_launch.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
Setup Factory

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\temp\prefetch.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
White Sea Media

Authority:
COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:
7/7/2013 8:00:00 PM

Valid to:
7/8/2014 7:59:59 PM

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:
12/16/2011 2:06:40 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
10.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
98304:/VffkDbJ9Dld6uxcWdH2Nizx9YSOrZPYQO+taFOni0VcYeCI2qSDpA8LYYuW7Gjo:/KDNRj6uGWZjzjPOGQxi0VaCI+D/U4

Entry address:
0x29E1

Entry point:
E8, A6, 1D, 00, 00, E9, 89, FE, FF, FF, 8B, FF, 56, 57, 33, F6, BF, C8, AB, 40, 00, 83, 3C, F5, 54, A0, 40, 00, 01, 75, 1D, 8D, 04, F5, 50, A0, 40, 00, 89, 38, 68, A0, 0F, 00, 00, FF, 30, 83, C7, 18, FF, 15, C0, 70, 40, 00, 85, C0, 74, 0C, 46, 83, FE, 24, 7C, D3, 33, C0, 40, 5F, 5E, C3, 83, 24, F5, 50, A0, 40, 00, 00, 33, C0, EB, F1, 8B, FF, 53, 8B, 1D, C4, 70, 40, 00, 56, BE, 50, A0, 40, 00, 57, 8B, 3E, 85, FF, 74, 13, 83, 7E, 04, 01, 74, 0D, 57, FF, D3, 57, E8, 18, FD, FF, FF, 83, 26, 00, 59, 83, C6, 08...
 
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Entropy:
7.9781  (probably packed)

Code size:
22 KB (22,528 bytes)

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