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Websteroids.exe

Websteroids

Creative Island Media, LLC

This is part of an adware program designed to inject advertising in the web browser (banners, text-links) as well as modify the normal behavior of the browser. Part of the Injekt brand of unwanted programs. The application Websteroids.exe by Creative Island Media has been detected as adware by 24 anti-malware scanners. This file is typically installed with the program Websteroids by Creative Island Media, LLC which is a potentially unwanted software program. While running, it connects to the Internet address update.betterxperience.com on port 80 using the HTTP protocol.

File name:

Websteroids.exe

Publisher:

Creative Island Media, LLC (signed and verified)

Product:

Websteroids

Version:

1.0.1.0

MD5:

7400f9bd989563d3a03eb8b70a7ce7bd

SHA-1:

b2aaa9ae137c9df153e7fd7ab002df2d70451027

SHA-256:

77c2e7278bf081cfc536e68d50251671123300740b0e1635fb6367ffa2175eef

Scanner detections:

24 / 68

Status:

Adware

Explanation:

Injects display ads (banner ads), in-text ads, interstitial ads, or other types of ads in the web browser as well as alters the browsers settings (home page, search, DNS, and security protocols).

Analysis date:

5/10/2024 6:48:52 PM UTC (today)

Scan engine

Detection

Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware

Adware.Agent.NUR

1020

Agnitum Outpost

PUA.SaMon

7.1.1

Avira AntiVirus

Adware/Agent.nur.1

7.11.141.168

Bitdefender

Adware.Agent.NUR

1.0.20.555

Comodo Security

ApplicUnwnt

18061

Dr.Web

Adware.Plugin.173

9.0.1.0111

Emsisoft Anti-Malware

Adware.Agent.NUR

8.14.04.21.01

ESET NOD32

MSIL/Adware.PullUpdate (variant)

8.9644

Fortinet FortiGate

Adware/SaMon

4/21/2014

F-Secure

Adware.Agent.NUR

11.2014-21-04_2

G Data

Adware.Agent.NUR

14.4.24

IKARUS anti.virus

not-a-virus:AdWare.Win32.SaMon

t3scan.1.6.1.0

K7 AntiVirus

Unwanted-Program

13.176.11663

Kaspersky

not-a-virus:AdWare.Win32.SaMon

14.0.0.3985

McAfee

Artemis!7400F9BD9895

5600.7154

MicroWorld eScan

Adware.Agent.NUR

15.0.0.333

nProtect

Adware.Agent.NUR

14.04.06.01

Qihoo 360 Security

Win32/Trojan.Adware.fb2

1.0.0.1015

Reason Heuristics

PUP.CreativeIslandMedia.L

14.8.7.20

Sophos

Search Donkey

4.98

SUPERAntiSpyware

Trojan.Agent/Gen-Nullo[Short]

10435

Trend Micro House Call

TROJ_GEN.F47V0317

7.2.111

Vba32 AntiVirus

TScope.Trojan.MSIL

3.12.26.0

VIPRE Antivirus

SearchDonkey

28104

File size:

147.9 KB (151,416 bytes)

Product version:

1.0.1.0

Original file name:

Websteroids.exe

File type:

Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:

Language Neutral

Common path:

C:\ProgramData\websteroids\websteroids.exe

Digital Signature

Signed by:

Creative Island Media, LLC

Authority:

VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:

5/21/2013 5:30:00 AM

Valid to:

5/22/2014 5:29:59 AM

Subject:

CN="Creative Island Media, LLC", OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O="Creative Island Media, LLC", L=San Diego, 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:

68F23F4D2767F6491DEA9186F2E5CB89

File PE Metadata

Compilation timestamp:

3/6/2014 4:34:40 AM

OS version:

4.0

OS bitness:

Win32

Subsystem:

Windows GUI

Linker version:

11.0

.NET CLR dependent:

Yes

CTPH (ssdeep):

1536:6LBLWWSLnxV8U6pu0CLZfVE+ebJ2LOIqSvGD:A69xV8U6ppWVzekCIZvGD

Entry address:

0x972E

Entry point:

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[+]

Entropy:

4.5174

Developed / compiled with:

Microsoft Visual C# / Basic .NET

Code size:

30 KB (30,720 bytes)

The file Websteroids.exe has been discovered within the following program.

Websteroids by Creative Island Media, LLC

This is ad-supported (adware) software, part of Injekt, that is very difficult to remove as the publisher will ignore the Windows Add/Remove feature and re-install it after the user reboot their PC.

www.websteroidsapp.com

83% remove it

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

TCP (HTTP):

Connects to update.betterxperience.com (54.218.62.24:80)

TCP (HTTP):

Connects to d.pullupdate.com (54.230.15.37:80)

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