weather it up-bg.exe

Weather It Up

Phoenix Media

The application weather it up-bg.exe, “Weather It Up exe” has been detected as adware by 4 anti-malware scanners. Part of the Corssrider web browser platform, the BG executable is a background process that manage various function of the installed extensions in user's browser including managing installation, updates and remote code downloads.
Publisher:
Phoenix Media

Product:
Weather It Up

Description:
Weather It Up exe

Version:
1000.1000.1000.1000

MD5:
ee8657c7e4f4ee6fd15aa9a6a9ff7e3e

SHA-1:
1db6ad099af5c73459b11d05ac984d3f0b8be1b1

SHA-256:
505b0de0f8a5aee524fc1528a38e491334706d77ae72e860c60683083d266e99

Scanner detections:
4 / 68

Status:
Adware

Explanation:
The software may change the browser's home page and search provider settings as well as display advertisements.

Note:
Crossrider is the owner of a platform that enables the creation of cross-browser extensions by developers but is not the owner of this detected application.

Analysis date:
4/23/2024 8:59:15 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

AhnLab V3 Security
PUP/Win32.MulDrop
2014.03.04

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.WeatherItUp.A
v2014.03.03.07

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Crossrider.PhoenixMedia.Q
14.8.1.0

VIPRE Antivirus
Crossrider
27048

File size:
791.5 KB (810,496 bytes)

Product version:
1000.1000.1000.1000

Copyright:
Copyright 2011

Original file name:
Weather It Up.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\Program Files\weather it up\weather it up-bg.exe

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
2/26/2014 5:12:25 AM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
11.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:0rad5ng1xRlNGeLaj+EyKqYm11JbKZUY2TNoWbK:0rad5nGPNGsj6e1JbKKXTNLK

Entry address:
0x777E7

Entry point:
E8, 90, B2, 00, 00, E9, 00, 00, 00, 00, 6A, 14, 68, D8, F3, 4B, 00, E8, 73, 01, 00, 00, E8, 10, 13, 00, 00, 0F, B7, F0, 6A, 02, E8, 23, B2, 00, 00, 59, B8, 4D, 5A, 00, 00, 66, 39, 05, 00, 00, 40, 00, 74, 04, 33, DB, EB, 33, A1, 3C, 00, 40, 00, 81, B8, 00, 00, 40, 00, 50, 45, 00, 00, 75, EB, B9, 0B, 01, 00, 00, 66, 39, 88, 18, 00, 40, 00, 75, DD, 33, DB, 83, B8, 74, 00, 40, 00, 0E, 76, 09, 39, 98, E8, 00, 40, 00, 0F, 95, C3, 89, 5D, E4, E8, A8, 11, 00, 00, 85, C0, 75, 08, 6A, 1C, E8, DC, 00, 00, 00, 59, E8...
 
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Entropy:
6.4314

Code size:
626 KB (641,024 bytes)

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