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rlvknlg.exe

Relevant-Knowledge

TMRG Inc.

The component is part of the TMRG platform which will track various behaviors of web browsing habits including tracking sites and domains visited as well as ads clicked. The application rlvknlg.exe by TMRG has been detected as adware by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. This is the uninstaller utility registered in the Windows Control Panel for the program RelevantKnowledge by TMRG, Inc.. While running, it connects to the Internet address wwwc.ria.securestudies.com on port 80 using the HTTP protocol.

File name:

rlvknlg.exe

Publisher:

TMRG, Inc. (signed by TMRG Inc.)

Product:

Relevant-Knowledge

Version:

1.3.337.392 (Build 337.392)

MD5:

91c9a99ae50ca2364c367193616fb107

SHA-1:

13ba70917d7794594bfd6cdfefbb50498d649599

SHA-256:

4bb70e70887eab6202193feb2cab072a447e6cfe4e0178370f84c546dbc17099

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:

4/27/2024 7:36:31 AM UTC (today)

Scan engine

Detection

Engine version

Reason Heuristics

PUP.TMRG (M)

17.1.31.21

File size:

3.6 MB (3,740,576 bytes)

Product version:

1.3.337.392 (Build 337.392)

File type:

Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:

English (United States)

Common path:

C:\Program Files\relevantknowledge\rlvknlg.exe

Digital Signature

Signed by:

TMRG Inc.

Authority:

Symantec Corporation

Valid from:

1/18/2016 7:00:00 AM

Valid to:

2/17/2018 6:59:59 AM

Subject:

CN=TMRG Inc., O=TMRG Inc., L=Reston, S=Virginia, C=US

Issuer:

CN=Symantec Class 3 SHA256 Code Signing CA, OU=Symantec Trust Network, O=Symantec Corporation, C=US

Serial number:

7E36C4BE2CEB69DF7BCEDB3B868E9EF9

File PE Metadata

Compilation timestamp:

12/29/2016 3:24:02 AM

OS version:

5.0

OS bitness:

Win32

Subsystem:

Windows GUI

Linker version:

9.0

Entry address:

0x245F0C

Entry point:

E8, DC, 53, 01, 00, E9, 78, FE, FF, FF, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 51, 53, 8B, 45, 0C, 83, C0, 0C, 89, 45, FC, 64, 8B, 1D, 00, 00, 00, 00, 8B, 03, 64, A3, 00, 00, 00, 00, 8B, 45, 08, 8B, 5D, 0C, 8B, 6D, FC, 8B, 63, FC, FF, E0, 5B, C9, C2, 08, 00, 58, 59, 87, 04, 24, FF, E0, 58, 59, 87, 04, 24, FF, E0, 58, 59, 87, 04, 24, FF, E0, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 51, 51, 53, 56, 57, 64, 8B, 35, 00, 00, 00, 00, 89, 75, FC, C7, 45, F8, 88, 5F, 64, 00, 6A, 00, FF, 75, 0C, FF, 75, F8, FF, 75, 08, E8, 9C, 0D, 04, 00, 8B, 45, 0C, 8B... 
[+]

Entropy:

6.6132

Code size:

2.7 MB (2,820,096 bytes)

Program Uninstaller

Program name:

RelevantKnowledge

Display publisher:

TMRG, Inc.

Display version:

1.3.337.388

Uninstall string:

C:\Program Files (x86)\RelevantKnowledge\rlvknlg.exe -bootremove -uninst:RelevantKnowledge

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

TCP (HTTP):

Connects to wwwc.ri8.securestudies.com (4.16.75.40:80)

TCP (HTTP):

Connects to a95-101-142-89.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com (95.101.142.89:80)

TCP (HTTP SSL):

Connects to a72-247-42-238.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com (72.247.42.238:443)

TCP (HTTP SSL):

Connects to a23-13-242-45.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com (23.13.242.45:443)

TCP (HTTP):

Connects to a23-13-242-249.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com (23.13.242.249:80)

TCP (HTTP):

Connects to a104-86-191-103.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com (104.86.191.103:80)

TCP (HTTP):

Connects to s3-1.amazonaws.com (52.216.0.211:80)

TCP (HTTP SSL):

Connects to wwwc.ri7.securestudies.com (4.16.75.8:443)

TCP (HTTP):

Connects to oss-ad-iad.securestudies.com (165.193.78.187:80)

TCP (HTTP SSL):

Connects to wwwc.ia9.securestudies.com (205.218.48.200:443)

TCP (HTTP):

Connects to server-54-230-216-241.mrs50.r.cloudfront.net (54.230.216.241:80)

TCP (HTTP):

Connects to ec2-52-199-122-244.ap-northeast-1.compute.amazonaws.com (52.199.122.244:80)

TCP (HTTP):

Connects to wwwc.ria.securestudies.com (184.80.40.40:80)

TCP (HTTP):

Connects to wwwc.iaa.securestudies.com (205.217.169.104:80)

TCP (HTTP):

Connects to wwwc.ia4.securestudies.com (66.119.33.170:80)

TCP (HTTP):

Connects to 97.47.37a9.ip4.static.sl-reverse.com (169.55.71.151:80)

TCP (HTTP):

Connects to wwwc.ia3.securestudies.com (66.119.33.138:80)

TCP (HTTP):

Connects to coccoc.com (123.30.175.50:80)

TCP (HTTP SSL):

Connects to wwwc.ri9.securestudies.com (4.16.75.72:443)

TCP (HTTP):

Connects to wwwc.ri3.securestudies.com (4.16.74.136:80)

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