puwpy.exe

HQ Cinemax 1.9cV23.01

Selecao Technologies (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 puwpy.exe, “HQ Cinemax 1.9cV23.01 exe” by Selecao Technologies (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 is part of the Brightcircle group of web-extensions that inject advertisements in the browser.
Publisher:
HQ CinemaV23.01  (signed by Selecao Technologies (Bright Circle Investments Ltd))

Product:
HQ Cinemax 1.9cV23.01

Description:
HQ Cinemax 1.9cV23.01 exe

Version:
1000.1000.1000.1000

MD5:
bd30e5043b627479169edbb5b46470f8

SHA-1:
868c612d70453dbbc79e225f441aa208c7ca02d5

SHA-256:
8ad7b1884ab7a6f8034fb21a5b60905b0ebdf2511da6caa5eaf65ca144fac8bb

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Adware

Note:
Our current pool of anti-malware engines have not currently detected this file, however based on our own detection heuristics we feel that this file is unwanted.

Analysis date:
12/24/2024 12:47:33 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
Adware.BrightCircle (M)
17.3.16.7

File size:
1.5 MB (1,557,480 bytes)

Product version:
1000.1000.1000.1000

Copyright:
Copyright 2011

Original file name:
HQ Cinemax 1.9cV23.01.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\roaming\puwpy.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=Selecao Technologies (Bright Circle Investments Ltd), O=Selecao Technologies (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:
3F2791037D410A199539AA4A99F7DEB3

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
1/23/2015 10:34:40 AM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
11.0

Entry address:
0xF575B

Entry point:
E8, 3D, FE, 00, 00, E9, 7F, FE, FF, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 56, 8B, 75, 08, 85, F6, 78, 09, E8, 70, FF, 00, 00, 3B, 30, 7C, 07, E8, 67, FF, 00, 00, 8B, 30, E8, 5A, FF, 00, 00, 8B, 04, B0, 5E, 5D, C3, 55, 8B, EC, 56, E8, C9, 5C, 00, 00, 8B, F0, 85, F6, 75, 07, B8, 40, E7, 55, 00, EB, 26, 53, 57, 33, FF, BB, 86, 00, 00, 00, 39, 7E, 24, 75, 1B, 6A, 01, 53, E8, 13, 2F, 00, 00, 59, 59, 89, 46, 24, 85, C0, 75, 0A, B8, 40, E7, 55, 00, 5F, 5B, 5E, 5D, C3, FF, 75, 08, 8B, 76, 24, E8, 90, FF, FF, FF, 50, 53, 56, E8, D4, EB...
 
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Entropy:
6.6238

Code size:
1.1 MB (1,187,328 bytes)

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