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wupdater.exe

White Sea Media

The application wupdater.exe by White Sea Media has been detected as adware by 29 anti-malware scanners. This is a setup program which is used to install the application. This is a malicious Bitcoin miner. Bitcoin-mining malware is designed to force computers to generate Bitcoins for cybercriminals' use and consumes computing power. It is also typically executed from the user's temporary directory. The file has been seen being downloaded from shoppingsuggestion.com.
Publisher:
White Sea Media  (signed and verified)

MD5:
97fde2519f0c72d8703c9b4b44f5a538

SHA-1:
1f7c0a2af6547b8b5b632b45f0a7cd49f808c079

SHA-256:
6748865ec5e569b1a13be7bba11f9e990a3a4673ade4e3d0687efc7c0f31913f

Scanner detections:
29 / 68

Status:
Adware

Explanation:
The program will mine for BitCoins using the computer's GPU in the background and may be installed and run without the user's knowledge.

Analysis date:
4/26/2024 3:27:46 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Gen:Variant.Zusy.79275
736

AhnLab V3 Security
Unwanted/Win32.BitCoinMiner
2014.02.03

Avira AntiVirus
TR/Zusy.79275.3
7.11.128.158

avast!
Win32:BitCoinMiner-FE [Trj]
2014.9-140113

AVG
MalSign.Generic
2016.0.3214

Bitdefender
Gen:Variant.Zusy.79275
1.0.20.145

Comodo Security
UnclassifiedMalware
17718

Dr.Web
DLOADER.Trojan
9.0.1.013

Emsisoft Anti-Malware
Gen:Variant.Zusy.79275
8.15.01.29.11

ESET NOD32
Win32/CoinMiner.JO (variant)
9.9371

Fortinet FortiGate
W32/Agent.ADURO!tr
1/29/2015

F-Secure
Gen:Variant.Zusy.79275
11.2015-29-01_5

G Data
Gen:Variant.Zusy.79275
15.1.24

IKARUS anti.virus
Trojan.Win32.Agent
t3scan.2.2.29

K7 AntiVirus
Trojan
13.175.11028

Kaspersky
Trojan.Win32.Agent
14.0.0.4473

Malwarebytes
PUP.BitCoinMiner
v2015.01.29.11

McAfee
Artemis!97FDE2519F0C
5600.7252

MicroWorld eScan
Gen:Variant.Zusy.79275
16.0.0.87

Norman
Agent.BAEUI
11.20150129

Panda Antivirus
Generic Malware
15.01.29.11

Qihoo 360 Security
Win32/Trojan.380
1.0.0.1015

Reason Heuristics
PUP.WhiteSeaMedia.I
14.8.7.21

Sophos
Mal/Generic-S
4.97

SUPERAntiSpyware
Trojan.Agent/Gen-CoinMiner
10085

Trend Micro House Call
TROJ_GEN.R0CCC0UAV14
7.2.29

Trend Micro
TROJ_GEN.R0CCC0UAV14
10.465.29

Vba32 AntiVirus
Trojan.Agent.aduro
3.12.24.3

VIPRE Antivirus
Trojan.Win32.Generic
26060

File size:
63.2 KB (64,736 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\temp\wupdater.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
White Sea Media

Authority:
COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:
7/8/2013 6:00:00 AM

Valid to:
7/9/2014 5:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=White Sea Media, O=White Sea Media, STREET=4142 Mariner Blvd, L=Spring Hill, S=FL, PostalCode=34609, C=US

Issuer:
CN=COMODO Code Signing CA 2, O=COMODO CA Limited, L=Salford, S=Greater Manchester, C=GB

Serial number:
1FB235ACA7565BA27ADC702B2BD05C7F

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
1/12/2014 9:53:33 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
10.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
768:/BIVBmj0C1S8QlFk+o35ZGdhB2zos4IfsFx32Pc3EDkAnTH3MpUj8ueev8nKgKm:0ch1SZeD5ZckoKsrmPc6jMFy0nMm

Entry address:
0x3397

Entry point:
E8, CF, 2E, 00, 00, E9, 89, FE, FF, FF, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 68, A0, A7, 40, 00, FF, 15, E0, A0, 40, 00, 85, C0, 74, 15, 68, 90, A7, 40, 00, 50, FF, 15, B4, A0, 40, 00, 85, C0, 74, 05, FF, 75, 08, FF, D0, 5D, C3, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, FF, 75, 08, E8, C8, FF, FF, FF, 59, FF, 75, 08, FF, 15, E4, A0, 40, 00, CC, 6A, 08, E8, 95, 30, 00, 00, 59, C3, 6A, 08, E8, B3, 2F, 00, 00, 59, C3, 8B, FF, 56, E8, F9, 29, 00, 00, 8B, F0, 56, E8, 3D, 05, 00, 00, 56, E8, 8B, 14, 00, 00, 56, E8, B5, 32, 00, 00, 56, E8, A0, 32, 00...
 
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Code size:
33.5 KB (34,304 bytes)

The file wupdater.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

http://shoppingsuggestion.com/.../update7.exe

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