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SearchDonkey.exe

SearchDonkey

WebAppTech Coding LLC

This is part of an adware program designed to inject advertising in the web browser (banners, text-links) as well as modify the normal behavior of the browser as well as modify the computer’s system settings that control applications to run on startup. Part of the Injekt brand of unwanted programs. The application SearchDonkey.exe by WebAppTech Coding has been detected as adware by 16 anti-malware scanners. This file is typically installed with the program SearchDonkey by WebAppTech Coding, LLC which is a potentially unwanted software program.

File name:

SearchDonkey.exe

Publisher:

WebAppTech Coding, LLC (signed by WebAppTech Coding LLC)

Product:

SearchDonkey

Version:

1.0.1.0

MD5:

5bf0a784a76f51070686c71c904eaa33

SHA-1:

00bdb7d95fc0403ab17a1b28f99acf3f6a3d8ced

Scanner detections:

16 / 68

Status:

Adware

Explanation:

Injects display ads (banner ads), in-text ads, interstitial ads, or other types of ads in the web browser as well as alters the browsers settings (home page, search, DNS, and security protocols).

Analysis date:

4/25/2024 4:14:26 PM UTC (today)

Scan engine

Detection

Engine version

Agnitum Outpost

PUA.PullUpdate

7.1.1

avast!

Win32:Adware-gen [Adw]

2014.9-140718

Comodo Security

ApplicUnwnt

18187

Dr.Web

Adware.Plugin.181

9.0.1.0199

ESET NOD32

MSIL/Adware.PullUpdate (variant)

8.9970

Fortinet FortiGate

Adware/SaMon

7/18/2014

IKARUS anti.virus

not-a-virus:AdWare.Win32.SaMon

t3scan.1.6.1.0

K7 AntiVirus

Unwanted-Program

13.176.11913

Kaspersky

not-a-virus:AdWare.Win32.SaMon

14.0.0.3540

Malwarebytes

PUP.Optional.SearchDonkey.A

v2014.07.18.11

McAfee

Artemis!88FAAAAE68FB

5600.7065

Qihoo 360 Security

Win32/Trojan.Adware.fb2

1.0.0.1015

Reason Heuristics

PUP.WebAppTechCoding.M

14.8.7.17

Trend Micro House Call

Suspicious_GEN.F47V0612

7.2.199

Vba32 AntiVirus

AdWare.SaMon

3.12.26.0

VIPRE Antivirus

Injekt

30462

File size:

41.9 KB (42,872 bytes)

Product version:

1.0.1.0

Original file name:

SearchDonkey.exe

File type:

Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:

Language Neutral

Common path:

C:\Documents and Settings\{user}\Application data\searchdonkey\searchdonkey.exe

Digital Signature

Signed by:

WebAppTech Coding LLC

Authority:

VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:

12/23/2013 12:00:00 PM

Valid to:

12/24/2014 11:59:59 AM

Subject:

CN=WebAppTech Coding LLC, OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O=WebAppTech Coding LLC, L=Grandville, S=Michigan, C=US

Issuer:

CN=VeriSign Class 3 Code Signing 2010 CA, OU=Terms of use at https://www.verisign.com/rpa (c)10, OU=VeriSign Trust Network, O="VeriSign, Inc.", C=US

Serial number:

1A6411A4888DF6223DF9C572F9BE2E96

File PE Metadata

Compilation timestamp:

4/24/2014 9:31:02 AM

OS version:

4.0

OS bitness:

Win32

Subsystem:

Windows GUI

Linker version:

11.0

.NET CLR dependent:

Yes

CTPH (ssdeep):

768:6avm7w0denAM7/wQqQ201EGMf3f+GffuXo5HfSfffNGZxVfffffff9fzfWZWOm5A:5vm00denAM7/wQqxShW95QsB6waDAsG

Entry address:

0x98FE

Entry point:

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[+]

Entropy:

5.9366

Developed / compiled with:

Microsoft Visual C# / Basic .NET

Code size:

30.5 KB (31,232 bytes)

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

SearchDonkey by WebAppTech Coding, LLC

Search Donkey is a potentially unwanted application that plugs into a user's web browser distributed by Western Web Applications, LLC. It bundles as well as includes various advertising schemes such as contextual links, popovers and popunders.

www.searchdonkeyapp.com

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