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zombiealert_au_1903-68353bc2.exe

Creative Island Media, LLC

The software will display additional offers (such as adware) during installation including a browser toolbar/extension as well as advertising injection software (part of the Injekt brand). The application zombiealert_au_1903-68353bc2.exe by Creative Island Media has been detected as adware by 13 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) installer. It is also typically executed from the user's temporary directory. While running, it connects to the Internet address update.betterxperience.com on port 80 using the HTTP protocol.
Publisher:
Creative Island Media, LLC  (signed and verified)

MD5:
21bcaa69eae4f93c4a169eb0e0469b0a

SHA-1:
685080d433de2a3822b0cb3122af399672cf259c

SHA-256:
f79e4c10079518b38dbcb26233dab550df56eba814085c0ade468894b845abc8

Scanner detections:
13 / 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:
4/19/2024 9:54:42 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Agnitum Outpost
PUA.SaMon
7.1.1

Comodo Security
UnclassifiedMalware
18033

Dr.Web
Adware.Plugin.128
9.0.1.0259

ESET NOD32
MSIL/Adware.PullUpdate
8.9624

K7 AntiVirus
Unwanted-Program
13.176.11623

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.ZombieAlert.A
v2014.09.16.06

McAfee
Artemis!21BCAA69EAE4
5600.7006

Qihoo 360 Security
Win32/Trojan.Adware.988
1.0.0.1015

Reason Heuristics
PUP.CreativeIslandMedia.CC
14.9.16.6

Sophos
Generic PUA BG
4.98

Trend Micro House Call
TROJ_GEN.F47V0326
7.2.259

Vba32 AntiVirus
TScope.Trojan.MSIL
3.12.24.3

VIPRE Antivirus
SearchDonkey
27944

File size:
3 MB (3,133,648 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\temp\{random}.tmp\zombiealert_au_1903-68353bc2.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Creative Island Media, LLC

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
5/21/2013 10:00:00 AM

Valid to:
5/22/2014 9:59:59 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:
6/7/2009 7:41:59 AM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
49152:iL9M0rpxt4HSsms6bhPHx9zJ5rcXYWfm0K6pch4OwpnlrEiiCcc4yMgYTft/gfXT:iL9MYPtiS46dPR9zLcXYMmwpcudllrEY

Entry address:
0x30FA

Entry point:
81, EC, 80, 01, 00, 00, 53, 55, 56, 33, DB, 57, 89, 5C, 24, 18, C7, 44, 24, 10, 60, 91, 40, 00, 33, F6, C6, 44, 24, 14, 20, FF, 15, 30, 70, 40, 00, 68, 01, 80, 00, 00, FF, 15, B0, 70, 40, 00, 53, FF, 15, 7C, 72, 40, 00, 6A, 08, A3, 18, EC, 42, 00, E8, F1, 2B, 00, 00, A3, 64, EB, 42, 00, 53, 8D, 44, 24, 34, 68, 60, 01, 00, 00, 50, 53, 68, 98, 8F, 42, 00, FF, 15, 58, 71, 40, 00, 68, 54, 91, 40, 00, 68, 60, E3, 42, 00, E8, A4, 28, 00, 00, FF, 15, AC, 70, 40, 00, BF, 00, 40, 43, 00, 50, 57, E8, 92, 28, 00, 00...
 
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Entropy:
7.9732

Packer / compiler:
Nullsoft install system v2.x

Code size:
23.5 KB (24,064 bytes)

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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