setup.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 setup.exe by NightWish Center (Bright Circle Investments) has been detected as adware by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. This is a setup and installation application and has been known to bundle potentially unwanted software. It is also typically executed from an Internet Explorer cache folder. It is distributed as part of the Brightcircle group of browser-extensions.
Publisher:

Version:
104.0.0.0

MD5:
ad546e2a949494a15d21df9ed1368950

SHA-1:
ace82a4c900cdf2f00682fa54d01720387382f3f

SHA-256:
f1f00424c5a3a648841280929fd3273949106e90681685b7e5bffe5aa3fca2ec

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:
4/22/2025 12:37:46 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
Adware.BrightCircle (M)
16.12.5.7

File size:
1.7 MB (1,818,592 bytes)

Product version:
104.0.0.0

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\microsoft\windows\temporary internet files\content.ie5\{random}\setup.exe

Digital Signature
Authority:
COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:
12/15/2014 9:00:00 PM

Valid to:
12/16/2015 8:59:59 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:
3/23/2015 5:59:39 AM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
12.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
49152:KizYN3H5SfqA/wfmQf20STXpSi6bSzpX4mXWeXtM:Nw3HrrfmP0Vey

Entry address:
0x119720

Entry point:
E8, F2, 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 (1,317,376 bytes)

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