stormalertsapp.exe

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 stormalertsapp.exe by Weather Warnings has been detected as adware by 2 anti-malware scanners. While running, it connects to the Internet address server-52-85-184-179.fra2.r.cloudfront.net on port 80 using the HTTP protocol.
Publisher:
Weather Warnings LLC  (signed and verified)

Version:
1.0.1.100

MD5:
67b4dc838ba797c3dc88eb30f6307874

SHA-1:
e0996942b1f9b134d384d45d24484fe783196c6c

SHA-256:
2818f4d4bc13ce6d6424450855c2fd1e0b401dd665bb3396b4d0fdbd5b06b6aa

Scanner detections:
2 / 68

Status:
Adware

Analysis date:
5/18/2024 11:32:49 PM UTC  (a few moments ago)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

AVG
Generic
2016.0.3045

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Weather.WeatherWarnings (M)
15.7.18.4

File size:
1 MB (1,099,448 bytes)

Product version:
1.0.1.100

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\stormalerts\stormalertsapp.exe

Digital Signature
Authority:
thawte, Inc.

Valid from:
5/24/2015 6:00:00 PM

Valid to:
5/24/2016 5:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Weather Warnings LLC, O=Weather Warnings LLC, L=Austin, S=Texas, C=US

Issuer:
CN=thawte SHA256 Code Signing CA, O="thawte, Inc.", C=US

Serial number:
079CB9C1FFEB0CA9C428CBBE65D2EEE9

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
6/30/2015 12:53:26 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
10.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:ImMU853kYiPzWv7D6jFkrNUOSAdk7UyjQDlkn59usGYuaYKqqaKCaahRBxkRBxh2:bMU85NiPUoFkCDB5Ng02

Entry address:
0x2C752

Entry point:
E8, 18, BC, 00, 00, E9, 89, FE, FF, FF, 6A, 0C, 68, E0, E3, 4E, 00, E8, E8, 4F, 00, 00, 6A, 0E, E8, 98, A2, 00, 00, 59, 83, 65, FC, 00, 8B, 75, 08, 8B, 4E, 04, 85, C9, 74, 2F, A1, 14, 51, 4F, 00, BA, 10, 51, 4F, 00, 89, 45, E4, 85, C0, 74, 11, 39, 08, 75, 2C, 8B, 48, 04, 89, 4A, 04, 50, E8, BD, C9, FF, FF, 59, FF, 76, 04, E8, B4, C9, FF, FF, 59, 83, 66, 04, 00, C7, 45, FC, FE, FF, FF, FF, E8, 0A, 00, 00, 00, E8, D7, 4F, 00, 00, C3, 8B, D0, EB, C5, 6A, 0E, E8, 64, A1, 00, 00, 59, C3, CC, CC, CC, CC, 8B, 54...
 
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Entropy:
6.1275

Code size:
730.5 KB (748,032 bytes)

User Start Menu Item
Name:
StormAlertsApp.exe


The executing file has been seen to make the following network communication in live environments.

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to server-52-85-184-179.fra2.r.cloudfront.net  (52.85.184.179:80)

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