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setupdenew.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 setupdenew.exe by Creative Island Media has been detected as adware by 26 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. While running, it connects to the Internet address update.betterxperience.com on port 80 using the HTTP protocol.
Publisher:
Creative Island Media, LLC  (signed and verified)

MD5:
842811ca1aa337b33766489c96d442ea

SHA-1:
c8b4fd34c229b7249d6c943a009cf5a7d43ee8ba

SHA-256:
f0d99d97136e483b89d7c5d169215e6623958d0cfe9ec00ff183c43da571f228

Scanner detections:
26 / 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:
4/25/2024 10:12:50 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Dropped:Adware.Agent.NUR
570

Agnitum Outpost
PUA.PullUpdate
7.1.1

Avira AntiVirus
ADWARE/Adware.Gen
7.11.169.74

Bitdefender
Dropped:Adware.Agent.NUR
1.0.20.980

Comodo Security
ApplicUnwnt
19316

Dr.Web
Adware.Plugin.128
9.0.1.0196

Emsisoft Anti-Malware
Dropped:Adware.Agent.NUR
8.15.07.15.10

ESET NOD32
MSIL/Adware.PullUpdate
9.10315

Fortinet FortiGate
Adware/SaMon
7/15/2015

F-Secure
Dropped:Adware.Agent.NUR
11.2015-15-07_4

G Data
Dropped:Adware.Agent.NUR
15.7.24

IKARUS anti.virus
PUA.CIM
t3scan.1.7.5.0

K7 AntiVirus
Unwanted-Program
13.183.13160

Kaspersky
not-a-virus:AdWare.Win32.SaMon
14.0.0.1733

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.MultiExtension.A
v2015.07.15.10

McAfee
Artemis!842811CA1AA3
5600.6704

MicroWorld eScan
Dropped:Adware.Agent.NUR
16.0.0.588

NANO AntiVirus
Riskware.Win32.PullUpdate.cymjwd
0.28.2.61861

nProtect
Dropped:Adware.Agent.NUR
14.08.25.01

Panda Antivirus
Trj/OCJ.F
15.07.15.10

Qihoo 360 Security
Win32/Trojan.Adware.988
1.0.0.1015

Quick Heal
AdWare.SaMon.g5 (Not a Virus)
7.15.14.00

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Injekt.CreativeIslandMedia.Installer (M)
15.7.15.10

Sophos
Search Donkey
4.98

Vba32 AntiVirus
TScope.Trojan.MSIL
3.12.26.3

VIPRE Antivirus
Adware.Agent
32552

File size:
3 MB (3,165,600 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\temp\{random}.tmp\dynamicoffer2\setupdenew.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):
49152:9oV83ho42AtfMdqiOzLBJ3VwG4OwpnlrEiY8k6JII3nmZys4Rk:973hBR0qiqVwtdllrEit53nqD4G

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)

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