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zombiealert_us_1903-85aa93ff.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_us_1903-85aa93ff.exe by Creative Island Media has been detected as adware by 19 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:
670f619b9bf36478489210a9dc99b4b7

SHA-1:
88ec8ca9befb92ca07d6c0e5e2b321c06b3b86b1

SHA-256:
c6014ee1f2da0be94a40a20ea5196cdfc9e54e93ab3174a55a7ac8edcdb19c7a

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:
4/27/2024 2:18:54 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Agnitum Outpost
PUA.SaMon
7.1.1

Avira AntiVirus
Adware/AgentCV.3133680
7.11.150.104

avast!
Win32:Adware-gen [Adw]
2014.9-150525

Comodo Security
ApplicUnwnt
18301

Dr.Web
Adware.Plugin.128
9.0.1.0145

ESET NOD32
MSIL/Adware.PullUpdate
9.9821

Fortinet FortiGate
Adware/SaMon
5/25/2015

IKARUS anti.virus
AdWare.Agent
t3scan.1.6.1.0

K7 AntiVirus
Unwanted-Program
13.177.12128

Kaspersky
not-a-virus:AdWare.Win32.SaMon
14.0.0.1986

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.ZombieAlert.A
v2015.05.25.06

McAfee
Artemis!670F619B9BF3
5600.6754

NANO AntiVirus
Riskware.Win32.PullUpdate.cwiqgd
0.28.0.59911

Qihoo 360 Security
Win32/Trojan.Adware.988
1.0.0.1015

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Injekt.Installer
15.5.25.18

Sophos
Generic PUA HO
4.98

Trend Micro House Call
TROJ_GEN.F47V0319
7.2.145

Vba32 AntiVirus
TScope.Trojan.MSIL
3.12.26.0

VIPRE Antivirus
Injekt
29386

File size:
3 MB (3,133,680 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\temp\{random}.tmp\zombiealert_us_1903-85aa93ff.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Creative Island Media, LLC

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
5/20/2013 5:00:00 PM

Valid to:
5/21/2014 4:59:59 PM

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:
6/6/2009 2:41:59 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
49152:R/r6btoO22xX1SapegpQCAIpt4OwpnlrEiiCckTig3gO2GOwt:RTiuORp1bpetKMdllrEiNciwONt

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:
7.9733

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)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to d.betterxperience.com  (54.230.13.123:80)

 
http://d.betterxperience.com/updater/dedu.txt

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