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Weather It Up

Phoenix Media

The application weather it up-codedownloader.exe, “Weather It Up exe” has been detected as adware by 4 anti-malware scanners. It runs as a scheduled task under the Windows Task Scheduler triggered to execute each time a user logs in. Built using the Crossrider web brower toolkit the CodeDownloader component will automatically connnect to the remote API server and download additional code/components for Phoenix Media extension/toolbar. The component makes a number of requests to the host app-static.crossrider.com/plugins/.../monetization/monetizationLoader.js.
Publisher:
Phoenix Media

Product:
Weather It Up

Description:
Weather It Up exe

Version:
1000.1000.1000.1000

MD5:
9a5ff5841a290aa5213c3c0e495b24f7

SHA-1:
270296a728391256a2e4866ccc937695acba6df9

SHA-256:
89bcb434521e1ce8f8cd53545f7b81bb2ea84ef0663d2b52455d07982c314880

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:
5/4/2024 6:56:02 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

ESET NOD32
Win32/Toolbar.CrossRider (variant)
8.9495

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.WeatherItUp.A
v2014.03.03.07

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Crossrider.Task.CC
14.8.1.0

VIPRE Antivirus
Crossrider
27048

File size:
554.5 KB (567,808 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-codedownloader.exe

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
2/26/2014 5:09:57 AM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
11.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:kfwt7cUWg5900j+rxHiI+mGKM/lA4aEtEx5T09pTp9x:kfwt7cUWg5900j+h0/JCxinTt

Entry address:
0x4DDEF

Entry point:
E8, CD, D4, 00, 00, E9, 00, 00, 00, 00, 6A, 14, 68, 00, 66, 48, 00, E8, FB, 49, 00, 00, E8, 6F, 1D, 00, 00, 0F, B7, F0, 6A, 02, E8, 60, D4, 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, 8D, 7A, 00, 00, 85, C0, 75, 08, 6A, 1C, E8, DC, 00, 00, 00, 59, E8...
 
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Entropy:
6.4411

Code size:
436 KB (446,464 bytes)

Scheduled Task
Task name:
Weather It Up-codedownloader

Trigger:
Logon (Runs on logon)

Action:
weather it up-codedownloader.exe \reinstallapp \runfrom=task \agentregpath='weather


The executing file has been seen to make the following network communications in live environments.

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to update.srvstatsdata.com  (69.16.175.42:80)

 
http://update.srvstatsdata.com/installer_updates/007329/update.json

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to stats.srvstatsdata.com  (176.32.99.41:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to app-static.crossrider.com  (69.16.175.10:80)

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