03d3f808-3490-4bba-b233-9ad206fa8b4b-6.exe

PalMall

Blondie Project (Bright Circle Investments Ltd)

This adware is a web browser extension that will inject advertising in the browser in the form of unwanted banners and text-links which may link to malware sites and install unwanted software. The application 03d3f808-3490-4bba-b233-9ad206fa8b4b-6.exe by Blondie Project (Bright Circle Investments) has been detected as adware by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. It runs as a scheduled task under the Windows Task Scheduler triggered to execute each time a user logs in. It is built using the Crossrider cross-browser extension toolkit. While the file utilizes the Crossrider framework and delivery services, it is not owned by Crossrider. It is part of the Brightcircle group of web-extensions that inject advertisements in the browser.
Publisher:
BND  (signed by Blondie Project (Bright Circle Investments Ltd))

Product:
PalMall

Description:
PalMall exe

Version:
1000.1000.1000.1000

MD5:
5fcdaff685c48644d0df4226c8096655

SHA-1:
54a26f2353e07624b39be3de0ca7b46613f18b57

SHA-256:
c911ad5f65039f5354be711e510049f6c91767827e5ec3ed9ee1cf1d17c96995

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Adware

Explanation:
The software may change the browser's home page and search provider settings as well as display advertisements.

Analysis date:
11/25/2024 8:46:21 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
Adware.Crossrider.Brightcircle (M)
16.2.3.6

File size:
1.4 MB (1,430,488 bytes)

Product version:
1000.1000.1000.1000

Copyright:
Copyright 2016

Original file name:
PalMall.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\Program Files\palmall\03d3f808-3490-4bba-b233-9ad206fa8b4b-6.exe

Digital Signature
Authority:
COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:
12/16/2014 5:30:00 AM

Valid to:
12/17/2015 5:29:59 AM

Subject:
CN=Blondie Project (Bright Circle Investments Ltd), O=Blondie Project (Bright Circle Investments Ltd), STREET=Athinodorou 3, STREET=Dasoupoli Strovolos, L=Nicosia, S=Nicosia, PostalCode=2025, C=CY

Issuer:
CN=COMODO Code Signing CA 2, O=COMODO CA Limited, L=Salford, S=Greater Manchester, C=GB

Serial number:
0903CC287C7EEA81D3C21DBB234D320C

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
3/2/2015 4:36:32 AM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
11.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:6HOM2s7Cpj98xbqrfbPQdFQ0xtYWOdaT+pSQl5prJwzAEZp:iX71UbSFPhUaT+pSQHprJwzAEZp

Entry address:
0xB45DD

Entry point:
E8, 1D, 01, 01, 00, E9, 00, 00, 00, 00, 6A, 14, 68, 38, 31, 52, 00, E8, 6D, 76, 00, 00, E8, 34, 53, 00, 00, 0F, B7, F0, 6A, 02, E8, B0, 00, 01, 00, 59, B8, 4D, 5A, 00, 00, 66, 39, 05, 00, 00, 40, 00, 74, 04, 33, DB, EB, 33, A1, 3C, 00, 40, 00, 81, B8, 00, 00, 40, 00, 50, 45, 00, 00, 75, EB, B9, 0B, 01, 00, 00, 66, 39, 88, 18, 00, 40, 00, 75, DD, 33, DB, 83, B8, 74, 00, 40, 00, 0E, 76, 09, 39, 98, E8, 00, 40, 00, 0F, 95, C3, 89, 5D, E4, E8, FF, 9A, 00, 00, 85, C0, 75, 08, 6A, 1C, E8, DC, 00, 00, 00, 59, E8...
 
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Entropy:
6.4085

Code size:
932 KB (954,368 bytes)

Scheduled Task
Task name:
03d3f808-3490-4bba-b233-9ad206fa8b4b-6

Trigger:
Logon (Runs on logon)


The executing file has been seen to make the following network communications in live environments.

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com  (52.216.64.2:80)

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