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Surf Island Solutions

The software will display additional offers (such as adware) during installation including a browser toolbar/extension as well as advertising injection software (part of the Injekt brand). The application setup.exe by Surf Island Solutions has been detected as adware by 3 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) installer. The file has been seen being downloaded from d.mixxen.com and multiple other hosts.
Publisher:
Surf Island Solutions  (signed and verified)

MD5:
b65a276113f011c9612bbd817e3e3fc9

SHA-1:
12e2e637e40f2df27ea0bc6370e11ea97f1657fb

SHA-256:
931aa44009c64cfb83f81e06916ac7921bf4fab06ed28f86c629e41408e9897e

Scanner detections:
3 / 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:
4/28/2024 4:54:17 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Avira AntiVirus
ADWARE/Adware.Gen7
7.11.196.146

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.Mixxen.A
v2014.12.24.12

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Installer.SurfIslandSolutions.F
15.1.4.16

File size:
4.6 MB (4,849,464 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)

Language:
Language Neutral

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\setup.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Surf Island Solutions

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
3/2/2014 7:00:00 PM

Valid to:
3/3/2015 6:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Surf Island Solutions, OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O=Surf Island Solutions, L=St. James, S=St. James, C=BB

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:
6FB79DDB9BE296B956A7181848AE7E71

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
6/6/2009 5:41:59 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
98304:tQJrrskWDNAevdN6rW7NaboNQES8M+XRxflZyva+ugjDmqcwNMxtP:tk/UDNhGaNaWSi3N7+dMwNMxV

Entry address:
0x30FA

Entry point:
81, EC, 80, 01, 00, 00, 53, 55, 56, 33, DB, 57, 89, 5C, 24, 18, C7, 44, 24, 10, 60, 91, 40, 00, 33, F6, C6, 44, 24, 14, 20, FF, 15, 30, 70, 40, 00, 68, 01, 80, 00, 00, FF, 15, B0, 70, 40, 00, 53, FF, 15, 7C, 72, 40, 00, 6A, 08, A3, 18, EC, 42, 00, E8, F1, 2B, 00, 00, A3, 64, EB, 42, 00, 53, 8D, 44, 24, 34, 68, 60, 01, 00, 00, 50, 53, 68, 98, 8F, 42, 00, FF, 15, 58, 71, 40, 00, 68, 54, 91, 40, 00, 68, 60, E3, 42, 00, E8, A4, 28, 00, 00, FF, 15, AC, 70, 40, 00, BF, 00, 40, 43, 00, 50, 57, E8, 92, 28, 00, 00...
 
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Entropy:
7.9914

Packer / compiler:
Nullsoft install system v2.x

Code size:
23.5 KB (24,064 bytes)

The file setup.exe has been seen being distributed by the following 2 URLs.

http://d.mixxen.com/Mixxen/195201/.../Setup.exe

http://music.mixxen.com/christmas/clkg/http/d.mixxen.com/Mixxen/195201/.../Setup.exe

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