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weather it up-firefoxinstaller.exe

Weather It Up

Phoenix Media

The application weather it up-firefoxinstaller.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. The Firefox Installer is part of the Crossrider toolbar platform and is designed to install the Crossrider plugin within Mozilla Firefox. It will also manage the Firefox SQLite connectivity. While running, it connects to the Internet address stats.srvstatsdata.com on port 80 using the HTTP protocol.
Publisher:
Phoenix Media

Product:
Weather It Up

Description:
Weather It Up exe

Version:
1000.1000.1000.1000

MD5:
c102447000b2e1ed5828c259b03548a3

SHA-1:
632394da4ebfa4f54e30137f5f38005326ef72f7

SHA-256:
29ebfaa1026675935c89cc1ed8b0943e73da6be63eb13cc76a5ea00410620a54

Scanner detections:
4 / 68

Status:
Adware

Explanation:
Part of the Crossrider toolbar platform. It will download and install the extension for Firefox.

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:
4/26/2024 6:33:43 AM 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.EE
14.8.1.0

VIPRE Antivirus
Crossrider
27048

File size:
931 KB (953,344 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-firefoxinstaller.exe

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
2/26/2014 5:06:53 AM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
11.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:Yup9ykpqbM8s5osK43BcdJxfEieMAKWqcJnVCMAvW0AGP0ixOcACqPDd2kcGJ6LP:YG/N8QFn3BcdJxfBDxjAtPhyLITs

Entry address:
0x9C3F0

Entry point:
E8, 82, EF, 00, 00, E9, 7F, FE, FF, FF, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, 8B, 4C, 24, 04, F7, C1, 03, 00, 00, 00, 74, 24, 8A, 01, 83, C1, 01, 84, C0, 74, 4E, F7, C1, 03, 00, 00, 00, 75, EF, 05, 00, 00, 00, 00, 8D, A4, 24, 00, 00, 00, 00, 8D, A4, 24, 00, 00, 00, 00, 8B, 01, BA, FF, FE, FE, 7E, 03, D0, 83, F0, FF, 33, C2, 83, C1, 04, A9, 00, 01, 01, 81, 74, E8, 8B, 41, FC, 84, C0, 74, 32, 84, E4, 74, 24, A9, 00, 00, FF, 00, 74, 13, A9, 00, 00, 00, FF, 74, 02, EB, CD, 8D, 41, FF, 8B, 4C, 24, 04, 2B, C1, C3, 8D, 41, FE...
 
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Entropy:
6.5418

Code size:
757.5 KB (775,680 bytes)

Scheduled Task
Task name:
Weather It Up-firefoxinstaller

Trigger:
Logon (Runs on logon)

Action:
weather it up-firefoxinstaller.exe \installxpi \agentregpath='weather it up' \extensi


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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