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4174.exe

NightWish Center (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 4174.exe by NightWish Center (Bright Circle Investments) has been detected as adware by 17 anti-malware scanners. This file is typically installed with the program Crossbrowse by CLARALABSOFTWARE which is a potentially unwanted software program. It is built using the Crossrider cross-browser extension platform. While the file utilizes the Crossrider framework and delivery services, it is not owned by Crossrider. It is distributed as part of the Brightcircle group of browser-extensions.

File name:

4174.exe

Publisher:

NightWish Center (Bright Circle Investments Ltd) (signed and verified)

Version:

104.0.0.0

MD5:

c73faad71797eadd702126581723d681

SHA-1:

49481d635337260d10dcfbfa7e0e5dc339d943c9

Scanner detections:

17 / 68

Status:

Adware

Explanation:

May modify the web browser's settings including changing the homepage and search provider in addition to delivering ads (by injecting banner and text-links directly in the webpage). Distributed through the Brightcircle investments brand.

Analysis date:

4/23/2025 12:33:51 PM UTC (today)

Scan engine

Detection

Engine version

AhnLab V3 Security

PUP/Win32.CrossRider

2015.04.09

Avira AntiVirus

ADWARE/Adware.Gen

3.6.1.96

avast!

Win32:PUP-gen [PUP]

2014.9-150401

AVG

Win32/DH{gRITfWUDICIlV05kAA}

2016.0.3152

Baidu Antivirus

Adware.Win32.CrossAd

4.0.3.1541

Bkav FE

W32.HfsAdware

1.3.0.6379

Comodo Security

ApplicUnwnt

21607

ESET NOD32

Win32/Toolbar.CrossRider.CH potentially unwanted (variant)

9.11408

Fortinet FortiGate

Riskware/CrossRider

4/1/2015

herdProtect (fuzzy)

variant of utility.exe (Adware)

2015.7.6.14

Kaspersky

HEUR:Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Generic

14.0.0.2256

McAfee

Artemis!D92C889F3659

5600.6808

Reason Heuristics

Adware.BrightCircle.NightWishCenterBrightCircleInvestments

15.4.11.23

Sophos

Generic PUA MD

4.98

Trend Micro House Call

Suspicious_GEN.F47V0407

7.2.91

Vba32 AntiVirus

suspected of Trojan.Downloader.gen.h

3.12.26.3

VIPRE Antivirus

Crossrider

39190

File size:

1.7 MB (1,819,104 bytes)

Product version:

104.0.0.0

File type:

Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:

English (United States)

Common path:

C:\Documents and Settings\{user}\Local settings\temp\4174.exe

Digital Signature

Signed by:

NightWish Center (Bright Circle Investments Ltd)

Authority:

COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:

12/15/2014 10:00:00 PM

Valid to:

12/16/2015 9:59:59 PM

Subject:

CN=NightWish Center (Bright Circle Investments Ltd), O=NightWish Center (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:

00B30349E6AD66949988B51360F031BFB4

File PE Metadata

Compilation timestamp:

3/25/2015 2:19:54 PM

OS version:

5.1

OS bitness:

Win32

Subsystem:

Windows GUI

Linker version:

12.0

CTPH (ssdeep):

49152:Ud9zuD1k9KOEBGlW5SeYyBoaTXpSkLQK7Jz4nmeXt6:M9W1xIW59YyBodQ

Entry address:

0x119810

Entry point:

E8, D2, 10, 01, 00, E9, 7F, FE, FF, FF, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, 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, A4, 6D, 5A, 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, 48, AE, 59, 00, 01, 0F, 82, DA, 04, 00, 00, 0F, BA, 25, A4, 6D, 5A, 00, 00, 0F, 83, A7, 01, 00, 00, F7, C7, 03, 00, 00, 00, 0F, 85, B8, 01, 00, 00... 
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Code size:

1.3 MB (1,317,888 bytes)

The file 4174.exe has been discovered within the following program.

Crossbrowse by CLARALABSOFTWARE

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