Gen.Variant.Adware.Multiplug.1_e36762725e

by malwarelabrobot on September 29th, 2014 in Malware Descriptions.

not-a-virus:HEUR:AdWare.Win32.MultiPlug.heur (Kaspersky), Gen:Variant.Adware.Multiplug.1 (B) (Emsisoft), Gen:Variant.Adware.Multiplug.1 (AdAware)
Behaviour: Adware


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The sample has been submitted by Lavasoft customers.

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Summary
Dynamic Analysis
Static Analysis
Network Activity
Map
Strings from Dumps
Removals

MD5: e36762725ef4586df2306d539df9e7aa
SHA1: d1069449ea6e2fa85b169cd5a19da00559fb8e0e
SHA256: aa3cc6ad632f12f1d9beb3bd8652214eb793e53c38f0b3d043114e04a53b8f72
SSDeep: 49152:PNJvjqFxwiS3nrz0yg4AwGpAsuffd6AJWh9F7EFstl01u1T:1Jvp3rz0MgAsuo3wFsz1
Size: 2734592 bytes
File type: EXE
Platform: WIN32
Entropy: Packed
PEID: UPolyXv05_v6
Company: no certificate found
Created at: 2014-08-31 15:45:40
Analyzed on: WindowsXP SP3 32-bit


Summary:

Adware. Delivers advertising content in a manner or context that may be unexpected and unwanted by users. Many adware applications also perform tracking functions. Users may want to remove adware if they object to such tracking, do not wish to see the advertising caused by the program or are frustrated by its effects on system performance.

Payload

No specific payload has been found.

Process activity

The PUP creates the following process(es):

%original file name%.exe:348

The PUP injects its code into the following process(es):
No processes have been created.

Mutexes

The following mutexes were created/opened:
No objects were found.

File activity

The process %original file name%.exe:348 makes changes in the file system.
The PUP creates and/or writes to the following file(s):

%Documents and Settings%\%current user%\Local Settings\Temp\3ca84668\[email protected]\bootstrap.js (2 bytes)
%Documents and Settings%\%current user%\Local Settings\Temp\3ca84668\[email protected]\install.rdf (600 bytes)
%Documents and Settings%\%current user%\Local Settings\Temp\3ca84668\XH23GUgVow24nz.x64.dll (1793 bytes)
%Program Files%\YoutUbEADBlocke\XH23GUgVow24nz.dat (260 bytes)
%Program Files%\YoutUbEADBlocke\XH23GUgVow24nz.tlb (259 bytes)
%Documents and Settings%\%current user%\Local Settings\Temp\3ca84668\XH23GUgVow24nz.tlb (3 bytes)
%Documents and Settings%\%current user%\Local Settings\Temp\3ca84668\XH23GUgVow24nz.dll (1733 bytes)
%Documents and Settings%\%current user%\Local Settings\Temp\3ca84668\[email protected]\content\bg.js (29 bytes)
%Documents and Settings%\%current user%\Local Settings\Temp\3ca84668\[email protected]\chrome.manifest (35 bytes)
%Documents and Settings%\%current user%\Local Settings\Temp\3ca84668\6jKLVFBZJhNWYXf.dat (4 bytes)
%Program Files%\YoutUbEADBlocke\XH23GUgVow24nz.dll (15792 bytes)
%Documents and Settings%\%current user%\Local Settings\Temp\3ca84668\[email protected]\content\Xq1Cdd.js (48 bytes)

Registry activity

The process %original file name%.exe:348 makes changes in the system registry.
The PUP creates and/or sets the following values in system registry:

[HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Cryptography\RNG]
"Seed" = "2C EB 55 4A 4E 95 9F D9 CA 75 52 FF 58 D1 44 BE"

[HKCU\Software\RegisteredApplicationsEx]
"be075a9a67245af7441d7cd5a303c86c" = "1"

[HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders]
"AppData" = "%Documents and Settings%\%current user%\Application Data"

[HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders]
"Common AppData" = "%Documents and Settings%\All Users\Application Data"

[HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders]
"Local AppData" = "%Documents and Settings%\%current user%\Local Settings\Application Data"

Dropped PE files

MD5 File path
374367ba293ed2c64cb7bfc4d1fe1417 c:\Documents and Settings\"%CurrentUserName%"\Local Settings\Temp\3ca84668\XH23GUgVow24nz.dll
54e21b7dae36a033b7e663765a15b095 c:\Documents and Settings\"%CurrentUserName%"\Local Settings\Temp\3ca84668\XH23GUgVow24nz.x64.dll
374367ba293ed2c64cb7bfc4d1fe1417 c:\Program Files\YoutUbEADBlocke\XH23GUgVow24nz.dll

HOSTS file anomalies

No changes have been detected.

Rootkit activity

No anomalies have been detected.

Propagation

VersionInfo

No information is available.

PE Sections

Name Virtual Address Virtual Size Raw Size Entropy Section MD5
.text 4096 924985 925184 4.32261 a00ec84db2ed3212c206cd1f660fa265
.rdata 929792 32780 33280 3.80373 f3b003a7c9e54738a430e7b7a550a934
.data 966656 1753660 1743360 5.51375 87b093acff447d3ff639395a796bffed
.rsrc 2723840 760 1024 3.13167 6479e75d0cc909e43eefbc6b907f4940
.reloc 2727936 30606 30720 4.37435 a6a23aaacad84fe20f6df84571da9170

Dropped from:

Downloaded by:

Similar by SSDeep:

Similar by Lavasoft Polymorphic Checker:

URLs

No activity has been detected.

IDS verdicts (Suricata alerts: Emerging Threats ET ruleset)

Traffic

Web Traffic was not found.

The PUP connects to the servers at the folowing location(s):

Strings from Dumps were not found.


Remove it with Ad-Aware

  1. Click (here) to download and install Ad-Aware Free Antivirus.
  2. Update the definition files.
  3. Run a full scan of your computer.


Manual removal*

  1. Terminate malicious process(es) (How to End a Process With the Task Manager):

    %original file name%.exe:348

  2. Delete the original PUP file.
  3. Delete or disinfect the following files created/modified by the PUP:

    %Documents and Settings%\%current user%\Local Settings\Temp\3ca84668\[email protected]\bootstrap.js (2 bytes)
    %Documents and Settings%\%current user%\Local Settings\Temp\3ca84668\[email protected]\install.rdf (600 bytes)
    %Documents and Settings%\%current user%\Local Settings\Temp\3ca84668\XH23GUgVow24nz.x64.dll (1793 bytes)
    %Program Files%\YoutUbEADBlocke\XH23GUgVow24nz.dat (260 bytes)
    %Program Files%\YoutUbEADBlocke\XH23GUgVow24nz.tlb (259 bytes)
    %Documents and Settings%\%current user%\Local Settings\Temp\3ca84668\XH23GUgVow24nz.tlb (3 bytes)
    %Documents and Settings%\%current user%\Local Settings\Temp\3ca84668\XH23GUgVow24nz.dll (1733 bytes)
    %Documents and Settings%\%current user%\Local Settings\Temp\3ca84668\[email protected]\content\bg.js (29 bytes)
    %Documents and Settings%\%current user%\Local Settings\Temp\3ca84668\[email protected]\chrome.manifest (35 bytes)
    %Documents and Settings%\%current user%\Local Settings\Temp\3ca84668\6jKLVFBZJhNWYXf.dat (4 bytes)
    %Program Files%\YoutUbEADBlocke\XH23GUgVow24nz.dll (15792 bytes)
    %Documents and Settings%\%current user%\Local Settings\Temp\3ca84668\[email protected]\content\Xq1Cdd.js (48 bytes)

*Manual removal may cause unexpected system behaviour and should be performed at your own risk.

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