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updater.exe

Creative Island Media, LLC

Part of the branded Injekt adware package, the updater mechanism is an auto-starting program that is desigend to update the web browser extensions and protect the executables ChromeHelper, FirefoxHelper and IeHelper so that these programs can inject advertisments and generate popups in the user's web browser. The application updater.exe by Creative Island Media has been detected as adware by 22 anti-malware scanners. It is set to automatically start when a user logs into Windows via the current user run registry key under the display name ‘Updater’.

File name:

updater.exe

Publisher:

Updater (signed by Creative Island Media, LLC)

Product:

Updater

Description:

Updater service

Version:

1, 0, 0, 1

MD5:

53f42e7a77d6a4651f4e36bcd37b5e42

SHA-1:

81e2e6e670b9fa60605b7fcecf1425d9911ccf36

SHA-256:

bf318f6270208be3b7405070d0a9ff681af75af6bb248a63aef6761fb0219815

Scanner detections:

22 / 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 6:22:04 PM UTC (today)

Scan engine

Detection

Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware

Adware.Agent.NUE

1075

Avira AntiVirus

TR/Trash.Gen

7.11.30.172

avast!

Win32:TubeDim-A [PUP]

2014.9-140225

Bitdefender

Adware.Agent.NUE

1.0.20.280

Bkav FE

W32.Clod4a8.Trojan

1.3.0.4613

Boost by Reason

Optional.Startup.CreativeIslandMedia.H

188838

Dr.Web

Adware.Plugin.130

9.0.1.023

Emsisoft Anti-Malware

Adware.Agent.NUE

8.14.02.25.02

F-Secure

Adware.Agent.NUE

11.2014-25-02_3

G Data

Win32.Application.TubeDimmer

14.2.22

IKARUS anti.virus

AdWare.Agent

t3scan.2.2.29

Malwarebytes

PUP.Optional.TubeDimmer

v2014.01.23.08

McAfee

Artemis!A5F634DAE5C0

5600.7209

MicroWorld eScan

Adware.Agent.NUE

15.0.0.168

Norman

Malware

11.20140807

nProtect

Adware.Agent.NUE

14.02.02.01

Reason Heuristics

PUP.Startup.CreativeIslandMedia.H

14.8.7.20

Sophos

Search Donkey

4.97

SUPERAntiSpyware

Trojan.Agent/Gen-Nullo[Short]

10435

Trend Micro House Call

TROJ_GEN.F47V1106

7.2.23

Vba32 AntiVirus

suspected of Trojan.Downloader.gen.h

3.12.24.3

VIPRE Antivirus

SearchDonkey

23956

File size:

290.4 KB (297,336 bytes)

Product version:

1, 0, 0, 1

Original file name:

updater.exe

File type:

Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:

English (United States)

Common path:

C:\ProgramData\updater\updater.exe

Digital Signature

Signed by:

Creative Island Media, LLC

Authority:

VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:

5/20/2013 7:00:00 PM

Valid to:

5/21/2014 6:59:59 PM

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:

68F23F4D2767F6491DEA9186F2E5CB89

File PE Metadata

Compilation timestamp:

9/25/2013 1:46:33 PM

OS version:

5.1

OS bitness:

Win32

Subsystem:

Windows GUI

Linker version:

10.0

CTPH (ssdeep):

6144:IaVootm2hhRFpri2Qsf/m5/Y/A1T1DWFh:IaaQm2PRDrigf/4t7WFh

Entry address:

0x1C477

Entry point:

E8, 46, 96, 00, 00, E9, 89, FE, FF, FF, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 8B, 45, 08, 85, C0, 74, 12, 83, E8, 08, 81, 38, DD, DD, 00, 00, 75, 07, 50, E8, 3C, D4, FF, FF, 59, 5D, C3, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 83, EC, 10, A1, 30, AB, 43, 00, 33, C5, 89, 45, FC, 8B, 55, 18, 53, 33, DB, 56, 57, 3B, D3, 7E, 1F, 8B, 45, 14, 8B, CA, 49, 38, 18, 74, 08, 40, 3B, CB, 75, F6, 83, C9, FF, 8B, C2, 2B, C1, 48, 3B, C2, 7D, 01, 40, 89, 45, 18, 89, 5D, F8, 39, 5D, 24, 75, 0B, 8B, 45, 08, 8B, 00, 8B, 40, 04, 89, 45, 24, 8B, 35, 4C, 01, 43, 00... 
[+]

Entropy:

6.4271

Code size:

187.5 KB (192,000 bytes)

Startup File (User Run)

Registry location:

HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

Name:

Updater

Command:

C:\ProgramData\updater\updater.exe

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

TCP (HTTP):

Connects to server-54-230-206-108.atl50.r.cloudfront.net (54.230.206.108:80)

TCP (HTTP):

Connects to ec2-54-218-62-24.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com (54.218.62.24:80)

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