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stormwatchbrowser.exe

Weather Protector LLC

Part of an adware web browser extension that delivers advertisements such as coupons, price-comparisons, display media, affiliate links, banners, popups/popunders and other links. The application stormwatchbrowser.exe by Weather Protector has been detected as adware by 3 anti-malware scanners. This file is typically installed with the program StormWatch by Local Weather LLC which is a potentially unwanted software program.
Publisher:
Weather Protector LLC  (signed and verified)

Version:
1.0.0.31

MD5:
07f6238e0b56df43d90350a138455874

SHA-1:
1cbfb4a6970f67eb26d3cc66082655d0f1caf074

SHA-256:
4dc5537e10a38157aacf05283c308dde1bbfbfa433036fa2cff7fd9eb01e391c

Scanner detections:
3 / 68

Status:
Adware

Analysis date:
5/3/2024 10:22:37 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Bkav FE
W32.HfsAdware
1.3.0.6379

Reason Heuristics
Threat.Weather.WeatherProtector
15.5.4.19

VIPRE Antivirus
Threat.4793388
39676

File size:
604.5 KB (619,032 bytes)

Product version:
1.0.0.31

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\stormwatch\stormwatchbrowser.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Weather Protector LLC

Authority:
COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:
6/12/2014 5:00:00 PM

Valid to:
6/13/2015 4:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Weather Protector LLC, O=Weather Protector LLC, STREET="101 Colorado St #2309", L=Austin, S=TX, PostalCode=78701, C=US

Issuer:
CN=COMODO RSA Code Signing CA, O=COMODO CA Limited, L=Salford, S=Greater Manchester, C=GB

Serial number:
00833BECDB30CAD96C0E0AC4DF14A0329F

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
4/30/2015 11:56:11 AM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
11.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
6144:eJJm9vWH1K5Ic0/sEjfcWeekn3SXl55h2L+LAO0AOGCSVYjEpkZ0QWZY:da1Mj0f5eekn3C5f2L+LicCAYjSK0Q2Y

Entry address:
0x2B996

Entry point:
E8, 30, 82, 00, 00, E9, 7F, FE, FF, FF, 57, 56, 8B, 74, 24, 10, 8B, 4C, 24, 14, 8B, 7C, 24, 0C, 8B, C1, 8B, D1, 03, C6, 3B, FE, 76, 08, 3B, F8, 0F, 82, 68, 03, 00, 00, 0F, BA, 25, 58, 5B, 47, 00, 01, 73, 07, F3, A4, E9, 17, 03, 00, 00, 81, F9, 80, 00, 00, 00, 0F, 82, CE, 01, 00, 00, 8B, C7, 33, C6, A9, 0F, 00, 00, 00, 75, 0E, 0F, BA, 25, F0, 31, 47, 00, 01, 0F, 82, DA, 04, 00, 00, 0F, BA, 25, 58, 5B, 47, 00, 00, 0F, 83, A7, 01, 00, 00, F7, C7, 03, 00, 00, 00, 0F, 85, B8, 01, 00, 00, F7, C6, 03, 00, 00, 00...
 
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Entropy:
5.7570

Code size:
332 KB (339,968 bytes)

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

StormWatch  by Local Weather LLC
StormWatch is a potentially unwanted adware program that injects ads into the user's browser. This includes inserting into web pages or displaying ads over parts of existing web page advertisements, banners, coupons or text links that would not otherwise appear.
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