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Weather It Up

Phoenix Media

The application weather it up-bg.exe, “Weather It Up exe” has been detected as adware by 21 anti-malware scanners. This file is typically installed with the program Weather It Up by Phoenix Media which is a potentially unwanted software program. 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:
b58af9d3056b26484533d64748316bdc

SHA-1:
95fbaf9f5106412d7f9014fed6e5190342ec51db

SHA-256:
8282cc078e0901895de0112bf4a0596919f901c9bba7cafad57873a52c630e91

Scanner detections:
21 / 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:
4/24/2024 10:09:45 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

AhnLab V3 Security
PUP/Win32.MulDrop
14.06.05

Avira AntiVirus
Adware/CrossRider.A.6269
7.11.152.70

avast!
Win32:Adware-gen [Adw]
2014.9-140605

AVG
MalSign.Skodna
2015.0.3446

Baidu Antivirus
Adware.Win32.CrossRider
4.0.3.1465

Bitdefender
Gen:Variant.Adware.Kazy.374109
1.0.20.815

Dr.Web
Adware.Toolbar.234
9.0.1.0163

Emsisoft Anti-Malware
Gen:Variant.Adware.Kazy.374109
8.14.06.12.01

ESET NOD32
Win32/Toolbar.CrossRider.AA (variant)
8.9875

Fortinet FortiGate
Riskware/Toolbar_CrossRider
6/5/2014

F-Secure
Gen:Variant.Adware.Kazy.374109
11.2014-12-06_5

G Data
Gen:Variant.Adware.Kazy.374109
14.6.24

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.WeatherItUp.A
v2014.06.05.07

McAfee
Artemis!B58AF9D3056B
5600.7109

MicroWorld eScan
Gen:Variant.Adware.Kazy.374109
15.0.0.489

NANO AntiVirus
Riskware.Win32.Toolbar.cvoqco
0.28.0.58491

Qihoo 360 Security
Win32/Virus.Adware.2a7
1.0.0.1015

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Crossrider.PhoenixMedia.Q
14.8.1.0

Sophos
AppRider
4.98

Trend Micro House Call
TROJ_GEN.F47V0313
7.2.163

VIPRE Antivirus
Crossrider
29814

File size:
626 KB (641,024 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:
5/27/2014 12:13:28 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
11.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
6144:WeArijvnpb4RxNlBfcArSgigKLrIZsYKTl3QXAPHYXQBTBlRxq6MHo5hX:ySpbaNlBfcjFYCRQwPGQBTnwU

Entry address:
0x57FAD

Entry point:
E8, BA, CC, 00, 00, E9, 00, 00, 00, 00, 6A, 14, 68, C8, 59, 49, 00, E8, 4D, 41, 00, 00, E8, C1, 1C, 00, 00, 0F, B7, F0, 6A, 02, E8, 4D, CC, 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, 69, 4F, 00, 00, 85, C0, 75, 08, 6A, 1C, E8, DC, 00, 00, 00, 59, E8...
 
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Code size:
495 KB (506,880 bytes)

The file weather it up-bg.exe has been discovered within the following program.

Weather It Up  by Phoenix Media
Displays advertising within the user's web browser on web pages where advertising would not normally appear. may be distribuited through OpenCandy.
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