SearchDonkeyService.exe

SearchDonkey Service

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. Part of the Injekt brand of unwanted programs. The application SearchDonkeyService.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. It runs as a separate (within the context of its own process) windows Service named “SearchDonkey”. 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 Service

Version:
1.0.0.0

MD5:
ce992052e1284177ada863a83a731306

SHA-1:
77a1993d555d8785792a8e0c2391f744fb128dcd

SHA-256:
2708fe166d010384b2c8586117668af877633777f00bd0ab47909ee718630cdd

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:
4/26/2024 2:57:59 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Injekt.WebAppTe (M)
16.3.27.18

File size:
53.4 KB (54,648 bytes)

Product version:
1.0.0.0

Copyright:
Copyright © WebAppTech Coding, LLC 2014

Original file name:
SearchDonkeyService.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
Language Neutral

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

Digital Signature
Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

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

Valid to:
12/24/2014 11:59:59 PM

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:
2/13/2014 7:04:50 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
11.0

.NET CLR dependent:
Yes

CTPH (ssdeep):
1536:JZzGxHiByArQogDLcv6N4q1/0EBV4XJL6gGzZ9R:JlGxHiByArQ3X46/J4XJL6gGV

Entry address:
0xCE9E

Entry point:
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Entropy:
5.8911

Developed / compiled with:
Microsoft Visual C# / Basic .NET

Code size:
44 KB (45,056 bytes)

Service
Display name:
SearchDonkey

Description:
Provides system level support for SearchDonkey.

Type:
Win32OwnProcess


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

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to ec2-52-10-180-179.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com  (52.10.180.179:80)

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