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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 as well as modify the computer’s system settings that control applications to run on startup. Part of the Injekt brand of unwanted programs. The application ZombieAlertService.exe by Creative Island Media has been detected as adware by 12 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.

File name:

Publisher:

Creative Island Media, LLC (signed and verified)

Product:

Zombie Alert Service

Version:

1.0.0.0

MD5:

65e576dfaf000e6f11a5d5271b84b6fb

SHA-1:

6782f97fdf5fe590b71de125b69a3fccc3ebbb06

Scanner detections:

12 / 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:

4/20/2024 2:04:33 AM UTC (today)

Scan engine

Detection

Engine version

Agnitum Outpost

PUA.PullUpdate

7.1.1

Comodo Security

ApplicUnwnt

18303

Dr.Web

Adware.Plugin.175

9.0.1.0220

ESET NOD32

MSIL/Adware.PullUpdate (variant)

8.9822

Fortinet FortiGate

Adware/PullUpdate

8/8/2014

IKARUS anti.virus

AdWare.Agent

t3scan.1.6.1.0

Malwarebytes

PUP.Optional.ZombieAlert.A

v2014.08.08.06

McAfee

Artemis!65E576DFAF00

5600.7045

Qihoo 360 Security

Win32/Trojan.Adware.988

1.0.0.1015

Reason Heuristics

PUP.CreativeIslandMedia.S

14.8.8.6

Trend Micro House Call

TROJ_GEN.F47V0402

7.2.220

VIPRE Antivirus

Injekt

29398

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:\Documents and Settings\{user}\Application data\zombiealert\zombiealertservice.exe

Digital Signature

Signed by:

Creative Island Media, LLC

Authority:

VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:

5/21/2013 9:30:00 AM

Valid to:

5/22/2014 9:29:59 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 2:00:07 PM

OS version:

4.0

OS bitness:

Win32

Subsystem:

Windows GUI

Linker version:

11.0

.NET CLR dependent:

Yes

CTPH (ssdeep):

1536:YLnfTVnTzwCNyzI8PLTm4w9HaUr3ZWvnbDja58SjTnG:YrTVTsKyMkm4w9HaUrQnbDjkly

Entry address:

0xEBBE

Entry point:

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[+]

Entropy:

5.8540

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)

TCP (HTTP):

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

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

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