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SWAUpdater.exe

Severe Weather Alerts Updater

Weather Notifications 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 SWAUpdater.exe by Weather Notifications has been detected as adware by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat.
Publisher:
Weather Notifications, LLC  (signed by Weather Notifications LLC)

Product:
Severe Weather Alerts Updater

Description:
SWAUpdater

Version:
1.2.0.0

MD5:
68ae9d51b1db2e851c3081cc7a050b9c

SHA-1:
3d920a22346a2b791f340cb4dfecce6ee3d78243

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:
4/18/2024 10:29:09 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Weather.WeatherNotifications (M)
16.2.7.9

File size:
1.1 MB (1,149,128 bytes)

Product version:
1.2.0.0

Copyright:
Copyright © 2013. All Rights Reserved.

Original file name:
SWAUpdater.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
Language Neutral

Common path:
C:\Documents and Settings\{user}\AppData\severeweatheralerts\swaupdater.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Weather Notifications LLC

Authority:
COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:
6/13/2013 9:00:00 PM

Valid to:
6/14/2014 8:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Weather Notifications LLC, O=Weather Notifications LLC, STREET=250 Park Ave Ste 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:
0D57C9460FE0C441B8FDD693F1AC6CD7

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
6/25/2013 1:43:33 AM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
8.0

.NET CLR dependent:
Yes

CTPH (ssdeep):
384:Jy4u5DBsncruBNPX19ho9PCxMMC187IHy1LV:JTG1+RfF9ho8xh7oG

Entry address:
0x401E

Entry point:
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Developed / compiled with:
Microsoft Visual C# / Basic .NET

Code size:
12 KB (12,288 bytes)

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