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Zombie Alert

Creative Island Media, LLC

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. Part of the Injekt brand of unwanted programs. The application update.exe, “ZombieAlert Install” by Creative Island Media has been detected as adware by 7 anti-malware scanners. This is a self-extracting archive and installer and has been known to bundle potentially unwanted software. According to AVG, this software downloads additional adware offers during setup.
Publisher:
Creative Island Media, LLC  (signed and verified)

Product:
Zombie Alert

Description:
ZombieAlert Install

Version:
1.0.0.0

MD5:
284eee547dfd72c37099cd9a2d0e7d9b

SHA-1:
e89918800895efa14a33cdf944418aa46ad3a86a

SHA-256:
cfeffbdba751d9fa30ded4699269a4b3d6ce91d9e7136825bb28f3166b00a00b

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:
4/25/2024 10:47:20 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

AVG
Potentially harmful program Downloader.BSH
2014.0.4040

ESET NOD32
probably MSIL/Adware.PullUpdate.E application
7.0.302.0

IKARUS anti.virus
PUA.Downloader
t3scan.1.7.8.0

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.ZombieAlert.A
v2014.10.22.02

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Installer.CreativeIslandMedia.G
14.10.22.1

Sophos
Search Donkey
4.98

VIPRE Antivirus
Threat.4784449
33706

File size:
2.3 MB (2,408,312 bytes)

Product version:
1.0.0.0

Copyright:
Copyright © Creative Island Media, LLC 2014

Original file name:
ZombieAlertInstall.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
Language Neutral

Common path:
C:\ProgramData\application data\zombiealert\up\2.7.41\update.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Creative Island Media, LLC

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
3/24/2014 11:00:00 AM

Valid to:
6/24/2015 9:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN="Creative Island Media, LLC", OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O="Creative Island Media, LLC", 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:
0ED42A15C608C5CB28B1EF56CE392E5E

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
10/2/2014 11:55:09 AM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
11.0

.NET CLR dependent:
Yes

CTPH (ssdeep):
49152:45JtUQ0uK8zifQdBym3JzPoAeDdfAjn1ekxEcIJ/hgDcmNuw:457ksifQdMmZzPoDAjns4TIbgY0b

Entry address:
0x24B8DE

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, 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...
 
[+]

Entropy:
7.9993

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

Code size:
2.3 MB (2,398,720 bytes)

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

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to update.betterxperience.com  (54.218.62.24:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to d.pullupdate.com  (54.230.15.37:80)

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