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tealkitty.purbrowse.exe

Teal Kitty

Part of the Yontoo adware component, a web browser plugin that injects unwanted ads in the browser. The application tealkitty.purbrowse.exe by Teal Kitty has been detected as adware by 24 anti-malware scanners. It will plug into the web browser and display context-based advertisements by overwriting existing ads or by inserting new ones on various web pages.
Publisher:
Teal Kitty  (signed and verified)

MD5:
74b3f166131c342af7c2ec4dac81e830

SHA-1:
5e3c1f8950a8d5ddd25849ef44c9d27da31da0c0

SHA-256:
7ef68eef2fcbf18a89d8ae2c14a35b9f2b828e7841488aaf72714ec5f459211a

Scanner detections:
24 / 68

Status:
Adware

Explanation:
Injects advertising in the web browser in various formats.

Analysis date:
4/24/2024 11:57:12 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Adware.BrowseFox.BZ
5648785

Agnitum Outpost
Trojan.Yontoo
7.1.1

AhnLab V3 Security
PUP/Win32.BrowseFox
2015.04.19

Avira AntiVirus
ADWARE/BrowseFox.Gen7
3.6.1.96

AVG
BrowseFox
2016.0.3135

Baidu Antivirus
Hacktool.Win32.NetFilter
4.0.3.15419

Bitdefender
Adware.BrowseFox.BZ
1.0.20.545

Bkav FE
W32.HfsAdware
1.3.0.6379

Comodo Security
Application.Win32.AltBrowse.ZPGI
21818

Dr.Web
Trojan.Yontoo.1734
9.0.1.05190

Emsisoft Anti-Malware
Adware.BrowseFox.BZ
9.0.0.4799

ESET NOD32
Win32/NetFilter.A potentially unsafe application
7.0.302.0

F-Prot
W32/S-4dc21c6d
v6.4.7.1.166

F-Secure
Adware.BrowseFox.BZ
5.13.68

G Data
Adware.BrowseFox.BZ
15.4.25

herdProtect (fuzzy)
variant of sourceapp.purbrowse.exe (Adware)
2015.7.20.18

K7 AntiVirus
Riskware
13.202.15641

Kaspersky
not-a-virus:HEUR:AdWare.Win32.Kranet
14.0.0.2169

McAfee
Program.BrowseFox-FVX
16.8.708.2

MicroWorld eScan
Adware.BrowseFox.BZ
16.0.0.327

NANO AntiVirus
Trojan.Win32.BPlug.dnpvno
0.30.16.1110

nProtect
Adware.BrowseFox.BZ
15.04.17.01

Reason Heuristics
Threat.Yontoo.TealKitty
15.4.19.2

Rising Antivirus
PE:Adware.SwiftBrowse!6.1B4E
23.00.65.15417

File size:
289.7 KB (296,688 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Common path:
C:\Program Files\teal kitty\bin\tealkitty.purbrowse.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Teal Kitty

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
1/11/2015 1:00:00 AM

Valid to:
1/12/2016 12:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=Teal Kitty, O=Teal Kitty, 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:
436637AA3101F57468AAB38795B34FD4

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
4/18/2015 11:58:31 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows Console

Linker version:
10.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
6144:PVgzu7KHXjV8DyJCvok0Tx8WRtvYTBwmEKSvx:9gzu7KHX+DyJCvok+x8WRtvYT+oSvx

Entry address:
0x2158E

Entry point:
E8, 45, 84, 00, 00, E9, 95, FE, FF, FF, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 8B, 45, 08, 33, C9, 3B, 04, CD, 88, 34, 44, 00, 74, 13, 41, 83, F9, 2D, 72, F1, 8D, 48, ED, 83, F9, 11, 77, 0E, 6A, 0D, 58, 5D, C3, 8B, 04, CD, 8C, 34, 44, 00, 5D, C3, 05, 44, FF, FF, FF, 6A, 0E, 59, 3B, C8, 1B, C0, 23, C1, 83, C0, 08, 5D, C3, E8, F4, 51, 00, 00, 85, C0, 75, 06, B8, F0, 35, 44, 00, C3, 83, C0, 08, C3, E8, E1, 51, 00, 00, 85, C0, 75, 06, B8, F4, 35, 44, 00, C3, 83, C0, 0C, C3, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 56, E8, E2, FF, FF, FF, 8B, 4D, 08...
 
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Entropy:
6.6062

Code size:
211 KB (216,064 bytes)

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