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webconnect.browseradapter.exe

Web Layers

Part of the Yontoo adware component, a web browser plugin that injects unwanted ads in the browser. The application webconnect.browseradapter.exe by Web Layers has been detected as adware by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat.
Publisher:
Web Layers  (signed and verified)

MD5:
ec47dd6f85c9949cc2178f5cebfcdc87

SHA-1:
4175dc4b9d21d2999cced47bbe82a574dcf29fed

SHA-256:
31bde600264728feade9a925ffd152e760880f1ae3fd3999c8317bd98851051d

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Adware

Explanation:
Belongs to the Sambreel/Yontoo progam that inserts various forms of advertising in the user's web browser, installed with minimal or no user consent.

Analysis date:
4/27/2024 2:26:34 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Yontoo (M)
17.3.12.16

File size:
106.3 KB (108,832 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Common path:
C:\Program Files\webconnect\bin\webconnect.browseradapter.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Web Layers

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
7/30/2013 9:00:00 PM

Valid to:
7/31/2015 8:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Web Layers, OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O=Web Layers, L=Santa Monica, S=California, C=US

Issuer:
CN=VeriSign Class 3 Code Signing 2010 CA, OU=Terms of use at https://www.verisign.com/rpa (c)10, OU=VeriSign Trust Network, O="VeriSign, Inc.", C=US

Serial number:
68B083249006BA50D35F50A8F44CD7D4

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
6/16/2015 4:43:58 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
10.0

Entry address:
0x4D75

Entry point:
E8, C5, 21, 00, 00, E9, 89, FE, FF, FF, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 5D, E9, F3, 05, 00, 00, 3B, 0D, 70, 70, 41, 00, 75, 02, F3, C3, E9, 43, 22, 00, 00, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 83, EC, 10, EB, 0D, FF, 75, 08, E8, 46, 23, 00, 00, 59, 85, C0, 74, 0F, FF, 75, 08, E8, 8A, 07, 00, 00, 59, 85, C0, 74, E6, C9, C3, F6, 05, 58, 85, 41, 00, 01, BF, 4C, 85, 41, 00, BE, 5C, 32, 41, 00, 75, 2C, 83, 0D, 58, 85, 41, 00, 01, 6A, 01, 8D, 45, FC, 50, 8B, CF, C7, 45, FC, 64, 32, 41, 00, E8, 2C, 00, 00, 00, 68, 7E, 20, 41, 00, 89, 35, 4C...
 
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Code size:
68.5 KB (70,144 bytes)

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