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ZombieAlertService.exe

Zombie Alert Service

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 ZombieAlertService.exe by Creative Island Media has been detected as adware by 11 anti-malware scanners. This file is typically installed with the program Zombie Alert 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:

Publisher:

Creative Island Media, LLC (signed and verified)

Product:

Zombie Alert Service

Version:

1.0.0.0

MD5:

6a04a6515bd9dbd32066e50cf83581c8

SHA-1:

47e213022293a1f39c24986b9bcee4306e3f983e

SHA-256:

f9729dfa992f6bc49588b12c6f1188e3b7227bff07890b0793f3cb24f807b2c7

Scanner detections:

11 / 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:

4/25/2024 5:31:40 AM UTC (today)

Scan engine

Detection

Engine version

Agnitum Outpost

PUA.PullUpdate

7.1.1

Comodo Security

ApplicUnwnt

18186

Dr.Web

Adware.Plugin.175

9.0.1.0197

ESET NOD32

MSIL/Adware.PullUpdate (variant)

8.9735

Fortinet FortiGate

Adware/PullUpdate

7/16/2014

IKARUS anti.virus

AdWare.Agent

t3scan.1.6.1.0

Malwarebytes

PUP.Optional.ZombieAlert.A

v2014.07.16.05

McAfee

Artemis!6A04A6515BD9

5600.7067

Qihoo 360 Security

Win32/Trojan.Adware.988

1.0.0.1015

Reason Heuristics

PUP.CreativeIslandMedia.S

14.8.7.20

VIPRE Antivirus

Injekt

28678

File size:

60.4 KB (61,816 bytes)

Product version:

1.0.0.0

Original file name:

ZombieAlertService.exe

File type:

Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:

Language Neutral

Common path:

C:\ProgramData\zombiealert\zombiealertservice.exe

Digital Signature

Signed by:

Creative Island Media, LLC

Authority:

VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:

5/21/2013 1:00:00 AM

Valid to:

5/22/2014 12:59:59 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:

3/22/2014 4:27:23 AM

OS version:

4.0

OS bitness:

Win32

Subsystem:

Windows GUI

Linker version:

11.0

.NET CLR dependent:

Yes

CTPH (ssdeep):

1536:hLnfTVnTzwCNyzI8PLTm4w9HaUr3ZWvnbDjX5ASjU:hrTVTsKyMkm4w9HaUrQnbDjJRU

Entry address:

0xEBBE

Entry point:

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[+]

Entropy:

5.8537

Developed / compiled with:

Microsoft Visual C# / Basic .NET

Code size:

51 KB (52,224 bytes)

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

Zombie Alert 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.injekt.com

88% 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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