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weather it up-updater.exe

Weather It Up

Phoenix Media

The application weather it up-updater.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. It is built using the Crossrider browser extension toolkit; the Updater component is used to dynamically connects to the Crossrider API (update.srvstatsdata.com/.../{CAMP_ID}/update.json) and download additional code in order to automatically update Phoenix Media extension/toolbar.
Publisher:
Phoenix Media

Product:
Weather It Up

Description:
Weather It Up exe

Version:
1000.1000.1000.1000

MD5:
e9d6a9e232d211346fc5a866cbf3d064

SHA-1:
e89d546ba71ccd2868075b36b7c92bcd47997852

SHA-256:
54499947f2f2c984697c9204cc22e7e5d2e59539e32b6996210038a99ec4986d

Scanner detections:
4 / 68

Status:
Adware

Explanation:
Part of the Crossrider toolbar platform. This is the updater mechanism that runs in the background as a scheduled task.

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 9:56:44 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.V
14.8.1.0

VIPRE Antivirus
Crossrider
27048

File size:
383 KB (392,192 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-updater.exe

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
2/26/2014 5:07:49 AM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
11.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
6144:kDYatn2T85QRjoP93kf5Gz5aAxhlWzj7O6aZT0A3IpTByJu4:k1x2T85QREkf5Gz5f9Oj7O7ZT0bpTcJ

Entry address:
0x33678

Entry point:
E8, 61, 99, 00, 00, E9, 00, 00, 00, 00, 6A, 14, 68, B0, C7, 45, 00, E8, 52, 25, 00, 00, E8, D2, 16, 00, 00, 0F, B7, F0, 6A, 02, E8, F4, 98, 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, E4, 55, 00, 00, 85, C0, 75, 08, 6A, 1C, E8, DC, 00, 00, 00, 59, E8...
 
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Entropy:
6.4390

Code size:
290 KB (296,960 bytes)

Scheduled Task
Task name:
Weather It Up-updater

Trigger:
Logon (Runs on logon)

Action:
weather it up-updater.exe \runupdater \agentregpath='weather it up' \appid=4


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)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to ssl.hwcdn.net  (205.185.208.11:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to errors.srvstatsdata.com  (208.85.150.249:80)

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

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