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stormalerts.exe

Storm Alerts

Weather Warnings LLC

Part of an adware web browser extension that delivers advertisements such as coupons, price-comparisons, display media, affiliate links, banners, popups/popunders and other links. The application stormalerts.exe by Weather Warnings has been detected as adware by 2 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) installer. It is also typically executed from an Internet Explorer cache folder. The file has been seen being downloaded from i.storm-alerts00.storm-alerts.net.
Publisher:
Weather Warnings LLC  (signed and verified)

Product:
Storm Alerts

Description:
Application

Version:
1.4.0.0

MD5:
8670a12154e562541454ac33faca9148

SHA-1:
8c0fc1727b4ba15ea8e51dc1830df206a1191ff1

SHA-256:
a991b3b0f22d143cb7337fb4007f4b00ef05bbfe4ece06ae348cfbc894a7de99

Scanner detections:
2 / 68

Status:
Adware

Analysis date:
4/26/2024 10:54:37 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.WeatherWarnings.L
14.8.8.1

Trend Micro House Call
TROJ_GEN.F47V1215
7.2.361

File size:
242.8 KB (248,656 bytes)

Copyright:
Weather Warnings LLC © 2013. All Rights Reserved.

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)

Language:
Language Neutral

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\microsoft\windows\temporary internet files\content.ie5\{random}\stormalerts.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Weather Warnings LLC

Authority:
COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:
10/15/2013 5:00:00 PM

Valid to:
10/16/2014 4:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Weather Warnings LLC, O=Weather Warnings LLC, STREET="250 Park Ave #504", L=Minneapolis, S=MN, PostalCode=55415, C=US

Issuer:
CN=COMODO Code Signing CA 2, O=COMODO CA Limited, L=Salford, S=Greater Manchester, C=GB

Serial number:
00E8DB5153F5DF039D40C9CA815EC69821

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
12/5/2009 2:50:52 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
6144:Qe34ux9cN2fe6zvtZwccmNdbEN7xByhjCNUO5:5x922fHTvhdEN7vYCiO5

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:
7.8421

Packer / compiler:
Nullsoft install system v2.x

Code size:
23.5 KB (24,064 bytes)

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

http://i.storm-alerts00.storm-alerts.net/inst/software/.../stormalerts.exe

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