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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.
Publisher:
Web Layers  (signed and verified)

Description:
WebLayers

Version:
1.0.5021.28085

MD5:
04472ca016ea122a5dac54c00126034f

SHA-1:
c88f148ac5970bce5448cfc9f058bc5428914b8e

SHA-256:
4d9031970efe8f025962b3fdcd8c8b919e3c43811fc95fb90b939953711144ca

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:
4/25/2024 10:38:57 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Yontoo (M)
17.3.13.22

File size:
63.8 KB (65,312 bytes)

Product version:
1.0.5021.28085

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 8:00:00 PM

Valid to:
7/31/2015 7:59:59 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:
9/30/2013 12:36:24 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows Console

Linker version:
8.0

.NET CLR dependent:
Yes

Entry address:
0xFABA

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:
6.1692

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

Code size:
55 KB (56,320 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
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