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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’. This file is typically installed with the program Updater by Creative Island Media, LLC which is a potentially unwanted software program.

File name:

updater.exe

Publisher:

Updater (signed by Creative Island Media, LLC)

Product:

Updater

Description:

Updater service

Version:

1, 0, 0, 1

MD5:

5c964c68c63b7ceb6c402eca902af47f

SHA-1:

a6b842c3b556c1f5cb6803018f825b32661cbac3

SHA-256:

cd3aa2757588842952fedb924c343ca87100c59e8df0e56b1f155ef56758f4e1

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:

4/26/2024 11:30:03 AM UTC (today)

Scan engine

Detection

Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware

Adware.Agent.NUE

923

Avira AntiVirus

TR/Trash.Gen

7.11.30.172

avast!

Win32:TubeDim-A [PUP]

2014.9-140727

Bitdefender

Adware.Agent.NUE

1.0.20.1040

Bkav FE

W32.Clod4a8.Trojan

1.3.0.4613

Boost by Reason

Optional.Startup.CreativeIslandMedia.H

188838

Dr.Web

Adware.Plugin.130

9.0.1.0208

Emsisoft Anti-Malware

Adware.Agent.NUE

8.14.07.27.11

F-Secure

Adware.Agent.NUE

11.2014-27-07_1

G Data

Win32.Application.TubeDimmer

14.7.24

IKARUS anti.virus

AdWare.Agent

t3scan.2.2.29

Malwarebytes

PUP.Optional.TubeDimmer

v2014.07.27.11

McAfee

Artemis!A5F634DAE5C0

5600.7057

MicroWorld eScan

Adware.Agent.NUE

15.0.0.624

Norman

Malware

11.20140727

nProtect

Adware.Agent.NUE

14.02.02.01

Reason Heuristics

PUP.Startup.CreativeIslandMedia.H

14.8.7.20

Sophos

Search Donkey

4.98

SUPERAntiSpyware

Trojan.Agent/Gen-Nullo[Short]

10435

Trend Micro House Call

TROJ_GEN.F47V1209

7.2.208

Vba32 AntiVirus

suspected of Trojan.Downloader.gen.h

3.12.24.3

VIPRE Antivirus

SearchDonkey

24624

File size:

305.9 KB (313,208 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:

5/21/2013 2:00:00 AM

Valid to:

5/22/2014 1:59:59 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:

68F23F4D2767F6491DEA9186F2E5CB89

File PE Metadata

Compilation timestamp:

10/22/2013 5:44:56 PM

OS version:

5.1

OS bitness:

Win32

Subsystem:

Windows GUI

Linker version:

10.0

CTPH (ssdeep):

3072:UL3CzMRBuNCt6XVFJRoy71YTUjQYouVeZVZMaZVfbOYh1W89q6lSVAghzOuKsIBO:ULSzMRXuVFTRSowZvHfKSp4MqiuVG6

Entry address:

0x1ED07

Entry point:

E8, 53, 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, 1C, D5, FF, FF, 59, 5D, C3, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 83, EC, 10, A1, 10, EC, 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, 44, 41, 43, 00... 
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Code size:

200.5 KB (205,312 bytes)

Startup File (User Run)

Registry location:

HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

Name:

Updater

Command:

C:\ProgramData\updater\updater.exe

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

Updater by Creative Island Media, LLC

This is the updater program installed with the company's TubeDimmer software which is typically installed through a bundled offer and is potentially unwanted.

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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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