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client.exe

The application client.exe has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 8 anti-malware scanners. This executable runs as a local area network (LAN) Internet proxy server listening on port 49215 and has the ability to intercept and modify all inbound and outbound Internet traffic on the local host. Additionally, the file is typically installed by a number of programs including Rockettab by Rich River Media, LLC and “RocketTab” by Adknowledge, both potentially unwanted software.
MD5:
28ecb5e6759181fd59d99d9afa632223

SHA-1:
1b4c30e2aa80ad4b795d2fa1b48593bb62850d80

SHA-256:
a5e66a67c3b26703260d6414682c5e1c2e3e61f7c91a6f3bbae31c2718f5accf

Scanner detections:
8 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Analysis date:
6/18/2025 10:05:03 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

AVG
Generic
2015.0.3253

Baidu Antivirus
Adware.Win32.RocketTab
4.0.3.141222

ESET NOD32
MSIL/Adware.iBryte (variant)
8.10701

Kaspersky
not-a-virus:AdWare.MSIL.RocketTab
14.0.0.2760

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.SoftJok
v2014.12.22.12

McAfee
Artemis!9CBD7602DB05
5600.6909

Reason Heuristics
Threat.Win.Reputation.IMP
14.12.22.0

VIPRE Antivirus
AdKnowledge
34676

File size:
5.5 MB (5,748,224 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Common path:
C:\Program Files\search extensions\client.exe

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
10/24/2014 3:08:27 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
10.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
49152:Na0bqeYalceMvwIcdo+JqpuEL0cbcRdt5C5jv3egwvaKF/:N8Pbcdheu+tYRn5Qjm1LF/

Entry address:
0x1D9D

Entry point:
E8, 7D, 26, 00, 00, E9, 89, FE, FF, FF, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 83, 7D, 08, 00, 74, 2D, FF, 75, 08, 6A, 00, FF, 35, AC, 8F, 97, 00, FF, 15, 38, 80, 40, 00, 85, C0, 75, 18, 56, E8, 2F, 27, 00, 00, 8B, F0, FF, 15, 34, 80, 40, 00, 50, E8, DF, 26, 00, 00, 59, 89, 06, 5E, 5D, C3, 6A, 0C, 68, 90, A4, 40, 00, E8, 43, 24, 00, 00, 6A, 0E, E8, 2F, 2A, 00, 00, 59, 83, 65, FC, 00, 8B, 75, 08, 8B, 4E, 04, 85, C9, 74, 2F, A1, 00, 84, 97, 00, BA, FC, 83, 97, 00, 89, 45, E4, 85, C0, 74, 11, 39, 08, 75, 2C, 8B, 48, 04, 89, 4A...
 
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Entropy:
4.4761

Code size:
25.5 KB (26,112 bytes)

Local Proxy Server
Proxy for:
Internet Settings

Local host address:
http://127.0.0.1:49215/

Local host port:
49215

Default credentials:
No


The file client.exe has been discovered within the following programs.

“RocketTab”  by Adknowledge
RocketTab is a web browser extension that injects display advertising in the user's browser. Ads are displayed in the form of banners and contextual text-links and are both injected in white space areas of the HTML page or over existing ads of the underlying web site.
85% remove it
Rockettab  by Rich River Media, LLC
RocketTab is an adware program that injects advertising in the user's web browser by creating a local proxy server and routing all Internet traffic through that proxy. By re-routing traffic the service will be able to include various ads in the HTML of the displaying web page.
rockettab.com
88% remove it
RocketTab:  by Adknowledge, Inc.
RocketTab is an advertising supported browser extension also known as adware and is designed to deliver ads to the user's Internet browser as banners, context text-links and transitionals ads. The injected ads are not affiliated with the underlying website on which they appear.
www.adknowledge.com
87% remove it
 
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The executing file has been seen to make the following network communications in live environments.

TCP (HTTP SSL):
Connects to server-54-230-197-179.lhr50.r.cloudfront.net  (54.230.197.179:443)

TCP (HTTP SSL):
Connects to ec2-23-23-98-123.compute-1.amazonaws.com  (23.23.98.123:443)

TCP (HTTP SSL):
Connects to server-54-230-197-123.lhr50.r.cloudfront.net  (54.230.197.123:443)

TCP (HTTP SSL):
Connects to server-54-230-197-108.lhr50.r.cloudfront.net  (54.230.197.108:443)

TCP (HTTP SSL):
Connects to ec2-54-72-47-163.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com  (54.72.47.163:443)

TCP (HTTP SSL):
Connects to ec2-52-45-70-108.compute-1.amazonaws.com  (52.45.70.108:443)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to ec2-52-42-199-13.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com  (52.42.199.13:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to ec2-50-17-217-59.compute-1.amazonaws.com  (50.17.217.59:80)

TCP (HTTP SSL):
Connects to a92-122-48-106.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com  (92.122.48.106:443)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to server-54-192-39-92.jfk1.r.cloudfront.net  (54.192.39.92:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to float.1755.bm-impbus.prod.ams1.adnexus.net  (37.252.162.222:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to float.1734.bm-impbus.prod.ams1.adnexus.net  (37.252.162.203:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to float.1688.bm-impbus.prod.fra1.adnexus.net  (37.252.170.86:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to float.1685.bm-impbus.prod.fra1.adnexus.net  (37.252.170.92:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to float.1066.bm-impbus.prod.ams1.adnexus.net  (37.252.162.128:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to ec2-46-137-218-36.ap-southeast-1.compute.amazonaws.com  (46.137.218.36:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to ec2-23-21-76-18.compute-1.amazonaws.com  (23.21.76.18:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to beacon.walmart.com  (166.90.142.110:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to a92-122-131-146.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com  (92.122.131.146:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to 86.186.211.130.bc.googleusercontent.com  (130.211.186.86:80)

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