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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 8 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 music.mixxen.com.
Publisher:
Surf Island Solutions  (signed and verified)

MD5:
87284b88ed7f33601efd7203085b2519

SHA-1:
e25be1a67bedffb7335a6d60f699a8b67149d0a5

SHA-256:
a01be23b44d0d9e7bcd8768587e4083940918c5a2eb187d4848300494b93c864

Scanner detections:
8 / 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:
5/15/2024 2:01:56 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Avira AntiVirus
ADWARE/Adware.Gen7
7.11.198.178

ESET NOD32
MSIL/Adware.PullUpdate.J.gen (variant)
9.10942

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.Mixxen.A
v2015.11.27.08

McAfee
Artemis!87284B88ED7F
5600.6569

Qihoo 360 Security
HEUR/QVM42.0.Malware.Gen
1.0.0.1015

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Injekt.SurfIslandSolutions.Installer (M)
15.11.27.8

Sophos
Generic PUA PN
4.98

Trend Micro House Call
Suspici.8C7FCC2E
7.2.331

File size:
4.6 MB (4,849,456 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Surf Island Solutions

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
3/2/2014 6:00:00 PM

Valid to:
3/3/2015 5:59:59 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 4:41:59 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
98304:aIicY671+Xobn44Jt6YHbs1IkrSCa1He1IpNS+vh+Ta/3NMxtX:aI7R+XdCddie1HeOjvsINMxV

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:
7.9913

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 URL.

http://music.mixxen.com/clkg/http/d.mixxen.com/Mixxen/177301/.../Setup.exe

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