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setup.exe

Creative Island Media, LLC

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 Creative Island Media has been detected as adware by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. The program is a setup application that uses the NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) installer. It is also typically executed from the user's temporary directory. While running, it connects to the Internet address update.betterxperience.com on port 80 using the HTTP protocol.

File name:

setup.exe

Publisher:

Creative Island Media, LLC (signed and verified)

MD5:

becd7a9bd6219a86af7ca762beb61d71

SHA-1:

5b2dd96fe4238f9ebfc7c1cb9e5f023f9fc5f625

SHA-256:

1f4d3e34800fd5d76e8b91a8c18024628a11ec72d9b6372db41a93dfc5950626

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 11:02:37 AM UTC (today)

Scan engine

Detection

Engine version

Reason Heuristics

PUP.Injekt.CreativeIslandMedia.Installer (M)

16.1.15.17

File size:

3.6 MB (3,750,056 bytes)

File type:

Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:

NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)

Common path:

C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\temp\setup.exe

Digital Signature

Signed by:

Creative Island Media, LLC

Authority:

VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:

5/21/2013 2:00:00 AM

Valid to:

5/22/2014 1:59:59 AM

Subject:

CN="Creative Island Media, LLC", OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O="Creative Island Media, LLC", L=San Diego, S=California, 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:

68F23F4D2767F6491DEA9186F2E5CB89

File PE Metadata

Compilation timestamp:

6/6/2009 11:41:59 PM

OS version:

4.0

OS bitness:

Win32

Subsystem:

Windows GUI

Linker version:

6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):

49152:UPCejm1+Jjk9hUfiZ3aWvnocmXCSmFwiWHAZZiI4OwpnlrEiis6DdZS1OJyqBKLq:Ulm8J6UaJT/LnG7dllrEigSQJU4d

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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Packer / compiler:

Nullsoft install system v2.x

Code size:

23.5 KB (24,064 bytes)

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

TCP (HTTP):

Connects to update.betterxperience.com (54.218.62.24:80)

TCP (HTTP):

Connects to d.pullupdate.com (54.230.15.37:80)

TCP (HTTP):

Connects to d.betterxperience.com (54.230.13.123:80)

http://d.betterxperience.com/updater/dedu.txt

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