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Zombie News

Time Lapse Solutions

This is part of an adware program designed to inject advertising in the web browser (banners, text-links) as well as modify the normal behavior of the browser as well as modify the computer’s system settings that control applications to run on startup. Part of the Injekt brand of unwanted programs. The application trhjnhtwjsf.exe, “ZombieNews Service” by Time Lapse Solutions has been detected as adware by 7 anti-malware scanners. It runs as a separate (within the context of its own process) windows Service named “TRhjNhTwjsF”. This file is typically installed with the program Zombie News by Time Lapse Solutions which is a potentially unwanted software program. According to AVG, this software downloads additional adware offers during setup.
Publisher:
Time Lapse Solutions  (signed and verified)

Product:
Zombie News

Description:
ZombieNews Service

Version:
1.0.0.0

MD5:
d2de21f107561e6d1c40df8befb48793

SHA-1:
7408584cf3950200cc265b5debe7fd464fd1190f

SHA-256:
bcb39c20c488259768d583100053e45e336d98134fa0870dee60ad1dc87298fc

Scanner detections:
7 / 68

Status:
Adware

Explanation:
Injects display ads (banner ads), in-text ads, interstitial ads, or other types of ads in the web browser as well as alters the browsers settings (home page, search, DNS, and security protocols).

Analysis date:
4/26/2024 7:40:14 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Avira AntiVirus
ADWARE/Adware.Gen7
7.11.189.28

AVG
Potentially harmful program Downloader.CBD
2014.0.4189

Baidu Antivirus
Adware.MSIL.PullUpdate
4.0.3.141126

ESET NOD32
MSIL/Adware.PullUpdate.G.gen application
7.0.302.0

IKARUS anti.virus
PUA.Downloader
t3scan.1.8.3.0

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.ZombieNews.A
v2014.11.26.08

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Service.TimeLapseSolutions.L
14.11.26.12

File size:
2.6 MB (2,726,256 bytes)

Product version:
1.0.0.0

Copyright:
Copyright © Time Lapse Solutions 2014

Original file name:
ZombieNewsService.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
Language Neutral

Common path:
C:\ProgramData\gyaypyoexf\trhjnhtwjsf.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Time Lapse Solutions

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
3/25/2014 12:00:00 AM

Valid to:
3/25/2015 11:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Time Lapse Solutions, OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O=Time Lapse Solutions, L=St. James, S=St. James, C=BB

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:
4E2D648A5233B2106CC4A2A6BE9F33FA

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
11/24/2014 2:19:41 AM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
11.0

.NET CLR dependent:
Yes

CTPH (ssdeep):
49152:mijuIULMYSeTXldgWlOYQtAzRQ9tqdQOHY8BwkJROLh+kYSCl:mwuIULMYSeTXldXQON2EjY8mkviTjCl

Entry address:
0x2995AE

Entry point:
FF, 25, 00, 20, 40, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 02, 00, 10, 00, 00, 00, 20, 00, 00, 80, 18, 00, 00, 00, 38, 00, 00, 80, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00...
 
[+]

Entropy:
7.9996

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

Code size:
2.6 MB (2,717,184 bytes)

Service
Display name:
TRhjNhTwjsF

Type:
Win32OwnProcess

Depends on:
Winmgmt CryptSvc


The file trhjnhtwjsf.exe has been discovered within the following program.

Zombie News  by Time Lapse Solutions
Zombie News (Injekt) is a web browser extension that injects display advertising in the user's browser. Ads are displayed in the form of banners and contextual text-links and are both injected in white space areas of the HTML page or over existing ads of the underlying web site.
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The executing file has been seen to make the following network communications in live environments.

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to ec2-34-250-194-62.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com  (34.250.194.62:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to ec2-52-16-174-255.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com  (52.16.174.255:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to ec2-54-171-43-206.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com  (54.171.43.206:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to ec2-54-246-181-97.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com  (54.246.181.97:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to ec2-54-76-91-10.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com  (54.76.91.10:80)

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