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yftfhae.exe

TV Wizard

Small Island Development

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 yftfhae.exe by Small Island Development has been detected as adware by 19 anti-malware scanners. It runs as a separate (within the context of its own process) windows Service named “YFTfHae”. According to AVG, this software downloads additional adware offers during setup.
Publisher:
Small Island Development  (signed and verified)

Product:
TV Wizard

Description:
TVWizard Service

Version:
1.0.0.0

MD5:
2f917dceb26134203f3e57be5c9e12f8

SHA-1:
9c01cc4357bebd71b5bd44dafe25296ad1f8458f

SHA-256:
3899be4a2d80266a79317caea8310958b8f435f092a45f2002730716f650e3a2

Scanner detections:
19 / 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:
4/24/2024 12:17:06 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

AhnLab V3 Security
PUP/Win32.PullUpdate
2015.03.26

Avira AntiVirus
ADWARE/Adware.Gen7
3.6.1.96

AVG
Downloader
2016.0.3156

Baidu Antivirus
Adware.MSIL.PullUpdate
4.0.3.15328

Bkav FE
W32.HfsAdware
1.3.0.6379

Dr.Web
Adware.Yontoo.59
9.0.1.087

ESET NOD32
MSIL/Adware.PullUpdate.G.gen (variant)
9.11377

G Data
Win32.Application.Agent.AZ2J3I
15.3.25

K7 AntiVirus
Adware
13.202.15381

Kaspersky
not-a-virus:AdWare.MSIL.PullUpdate
14.0.0.2275

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.TVWizard.A
v2015.03.28.10

McAfee
Artemis!2F917DCEB261
5600.6812

Panda Antivirus
Adware/TVWizard
15.03.28.10

Qihoo 360 Security
HEUR/QVM03.0.Malware.Gen
1.0.0.1015

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Service.Injekt
15.3.28.22

Sophos
Generic PUA JM
4.98

Trend Micro House Call
TROJ_GEN.R0C1H07CO15
7.2.87

Vba32 AntiVirus
TScope.Trojan.MSIL
3.12.26.3

VIPRE Antivirus
MSIL.Adware.PullUpdate
38772

File size:
2.6 MB (2,733,040 bytes)

Product version:
1.0.0.0

Copyright:
Copyright © Small Island Development 2015

Original file name:
TVWizardService.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Common path:
C:\ProgramData\obztmoacb\yftfhae.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Small Island Development

Authority:
Symantec Corporation

Valid from:
12/24/2014 1:00:00 AM

Valid to:
2/23/2016 12:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=Small Island Development, O=Small Island Development, L=St. James, S=St. James, C=BB

Issuer:
CN=Symantec Class 3 SHA256 Code Signing CA, OU=Symantec Trust Network, O=Symantec Corporation, C=US

Serial number:
2ACB4CDCE993E485342ABFA2BCA95A17

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
3/23/2015 9:21:37 AM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
11.0

.NET CLR dependent:
Yes

CTPH (ssdeep):
49152:nwsFGU6xRNzBARU6ZtlfSb1WSidcwzS/SVMvquTJm+90mFtu/wr0+O:wEvQRYe2vairzS/SOvtE+9PG

Entry address:
0x29B02E

Entry point:
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Developed / compiled with:
Microsoft Visual C# / Basic .NET

Code size:
2.6 MB (2,724,352 bytes)

Service
Display name:
YFTfHae

Type:
Win32OwnProcess

Depends on:
Winmgmt CryptSvc


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

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to ec2-52-16-174-255.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com  (52.16.174.255:80)

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