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utilweblayers.exe

Web Layers

Part of the Yontoo adware component, a web browser plugin that injects unwanted ads in the browser. The application utilweblayers.exe by Web Layers has been detected as adware by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. It runs as a separate (within the context of its own process) windows Service named “Update Web Layers”. This file is typically installed with the program Web Layers 3.0.0 by Yontoo Technology, Inc. which is a potentially unwanted software program.

File name:

utilweblayers.exe

Publisher:

Web Layers (signed and verified)

Version:

1.0.5123.7452

MD5:

ea3202ce5c58dfd630116197582683c0

SHA-1:

1c279ea5a34420ecba9fefc511752170be1e3b61

SHA-256:

1e216ebb365a5ffa0c23cdfdb130fdb624560d7158cf39420e704b8f6d3cd2f7

Scanner detections:

1 / 68

Status:

Adware

Explanation:

Belongs to the Sambreel/Yontoo progam that inserts various forms of advertising in the user's web browser, installed with minimal or no user consent.

Analysis date:

4/26/2024 1:36:00 AM UTC (today)

Scan engine

Detection

Engine version

Reason Heuristics

PUP.Yontoo.WebLayers (M)

16.2.11.1

File size:

94.8 KB (97,056 bytes)

Product version:

1.0.5123.7452

Original file name:

WebLayers.exe

File type:

Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:

Language Neutral

Common path:

C:\Program Files\web layers\bin\utilweblayers.exe

Digital Signature

Signed by:

Web Layers

Authority:

VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:

7/30/2013 5:00:00 PM

Valid to:

7/31/2015 4:59:59 PM

Subject:

CN=Web Layers, OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O=Web Layers, L=Santa Monica, 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:

68B083249006BA50D35F50A8F44CD7D4

File PE Metadata

Compilation timestamp:

1/9/2014 8:08:39 PM

OS version:

4.0

OS bitness:

Win32

Subsystem:

Windows Console

Linker version:

8.0

.NET CLR dependent:

Yes

CTPH (ssdeep):

1536:z02M6InUUplXK7D468w5H/9y5i+ctONO7nrOJ5V3qRTBtQbbCHmKkV87:z02qn7p8c68wVEinOsCVaRTBtgbCXkVU

Entry address:

0x1775E

Entry point:

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[+]

Entropy:

6.1782

Developed / compiled with:

Microsoft Visual C# / Basic .NET

Code size:

86 KB (88,064 bytes)

Service

Display name:

Update Web Layers

Type:

Win32OwnProcess

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

Web Layers 3.0.0 by Yontoo Technology, Inc.

Web Layers is a web browser extension and toolbar that delivers contextual based advertising as well as modify the user's web browser home and search pages to provide advertising and search.

weblayers.co/support

81% remove it

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