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sponsorkeywordagent.exe

Internet Marketing Lab

The application sponsorkeywordagent.exe by Internet Marketing Lab has been detected as adware by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. It is set to automatically start when a user logs into Windows via the current user run registry key under the display name ‘sponsorkeywordagent’.
Publisher:
Internet Marketing Lab  (signed and verified)

MD5:
57655b82ab6b50422d5ac037a13b2a06

SHA-1:
dee50a52d67a43b737a19ebee3d0a08eec93dafc

SHA-256:
e330174b7a0412c53e10d8a20bf69bb896ee3dab8bf83909a07b661105356bb8

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Adware

Note:
Our current pool of anti-malware engines have not currently detected this file, however based on our own detection heuristics we feel that this file is unwanted.

Analysis date:
4/26/2024 9:42:21 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP (M)
16.12.20.11

File size:
76.9 KB (78,720 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Common path:
C:\Program Files\sponsorkeyword\sponsorkeywordagent.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Internet Marketing Lab

Authority:
Thawte, Inc.

Valid from:
7/23/2012 8:00:00 AM

Valid to:
7/24/2013 7:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=Internet Marketing Lab, O=Internet Marketing Lab, L=Seocho-gu, S=SEOUL, C=KR

Issuer:
CN=Thawte Code Signing CA - G2, O="Thawte, Inc.", C=US

Serial number:
51E23D20329B49B76271E7F32572F5A1

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
8/17/2012 7:02:16 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
10.0

Entry address:
0x49AC

Entry point:
E8, 02, 47, 00, 00, E9, 89, FE, FF, FF, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 81, EC, 28, 03, 00, 00, A3, 10, 20, 41, 00, 89, 0D, 0C, 20, 41, 00, 89, 15, 08, 20, 41, 00, 89, 1D, 04, 20, 41, 00, 89, 35, 00, 20, 41, 00, 89, 3D, FC, 1F, 41, 00, 66, 8C, 15, 28, 20, 41, 00, 66, 8C, 0D, 1C, 20, 41, 00, 66, 8C, 1D, F8, 1F, 41, 00, 66, 8C, 05, F4, 1F, 41, 00, 66, 8C, 25, F0, 1F, 41, 00, 66, 8C, 2D, EC, 1F, 41, 00, 9C, 8F, 05, 20, 20, 41, 00, 8B, 45, 00, A3, 14, 20, 41, 00, 8B, 45, 04, A3, 18, 20, 41, 00, 8D, 45, 08, A3, 24, 20, 41...
 
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Entropy:
6.2969

Code size:
47.5 KB (48,640 bytes)

Startup File (User Run)
Registry location:
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

Name:
sponsorkeywordagent

Command:
C:\Program Files\sponsorkeyword\sponsorkeywordagent.exe


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