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setup_ca_20131219.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_ca_20131219.exe by Creative Island Media has been detected as adware by 17 anti-malware scanners. 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. The file has been seen being downloaded from d3emsmln8xfj03.cloudfront.net. While running, it connects to the Internet address update.betterxperience.com on port 80 using the HTTP protocol.

File name:

Publisher:

Creative Island Media, LLC (signed and verified)

MD5:

616dc9365af46d19c8b9a1bd0b62c826

SHA-1:

83a5c75e34dbb2172c64af1574edfa90f3defc01

SHA-256:

201fa82b5885687e1253a22ee707cabb377de0094123a180b8449b0bc38dfdb3

Scanner detections:

17 / 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 5:39:25 AM UTC (today)

Scan engine

Detection

Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware

Adware.Agent.NVF

913

avast!

Win32:BHO-AMO [PUP]

2014.9-140805

Bitdefender

Adware.Agent.NVF

1.0.20.1085

Dr.Web

Adware.Plugin.128

9.0.1.0217

Emsisoft Anti-Malware

Adware.Agent.NVF

8.14.08.05.02

ESET NOD32

Win32/ExFriendAlert (variant)

8.9442

Fortinet FortiGate

Riskware/ExFriendAlert

8/5/2014

F-Secure

Adware.Agent.NVF

11.2014-05-08_3

G Data

Adware.Agent.NVF

14.8.24

IKARUS anti.virus

AdWare.Agent

t3scan.2.2.29

McAfee

Artemis!71B03CAD3F92

5600.7047

MicroWorld eScan

Adware.Agent.NVF

15.0.0.651

nProtect

Adware.Agent.NVF

14.02.19.01

Reason Heuristics

PUP.Installer.CreativeIslandMedia.R

14.8.7.20

Sophos

Search Donkey

4.97

Trend Micro House Call

TROJ_GEN.F47V1229

7.2.217

VIPRE Antivirus

SearchDonkey

26628

File size:

3.7 MB (3,885,200 bytes)

File type:

Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:

NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)

Common path:

C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\temp\setup_ca_20131219.exe

Digital Signature

Signed by:

Creative Island Media, LLC

Authority:

VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:

5/20/2013 8:00:00 PM

Valid to:

5/21/2014 7:59:59 PM

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 5:41:59 PM

OS version:

4.0

OS bitness:

Win32

Subsystem:

Windows GUI

Linker version:

6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):

49152:h/gnmRZu0X7m0e+qHA1mXCSmFwiWHA8Q2onu31Ea7L4OwpnlrEiKKlODN5eB/dnb:hEwZu0XjC2nwynu3nIdllrEiyZ50/MKF

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 file setup_ca_20131219.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

http://d3emsmln8xfj03.cloudfront.net/bundles/.../Setup_CA_20131219.exe

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)

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