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 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. This file is typically installed with the program SearchDonkey by WebAppTech Coding, LLC which is a potentially unwanted software program.
Publisher:
WebAppTech Coding, LLC  (signed by WebAppTech Coding LLC)

Product:
SearchDonkey

Version:
1.0.1.0

MD5:
58b5304df9a295ccfe14753610b34978

SHA-1:
9a32cf49afef2e8c86450cb929301d23cc29d87d

SHA-256:
229afdf68b3b7aa5d92a9d858c30559004e64bf5b4e9e081f1054fe61be82564

Scanner detections:
1 / 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:
4/18/2024 8:00:23 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Injekt.WebAppTe (M)
16.6.1.2

File size:
41.9 KB (42,872 bytes)

Product version:
1.0.1.0

Copyright:
Copyright © WebAppTech Coding, LLC 2014

Original file name:
SearchDonkey.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Common path:
C:\ProgramData\searchdonkey\searchdonkey.exe

Digital Signature
Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
12/24/2013 2:00:00 AM

Valid to:
12/25/2014 1:59:59 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:
4/25/2014 12:31:08 AM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
11.0

.NET CLR dependent:
Yes

CTPH (ssdeep):
768:5avm7w0denAM7/wQqQ201EGMf3f+GffuXo5HfSfffNGZxVfffffff9fzfWZWOm5Z:4vm00denAM7/wQqxShW95QsB6wyfAsG

Entry address:
0x98FE

Entry point:
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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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