BadFinger Project (BrightCircle Investments Limited)
Publisher Information
BadFinger Project (BrightCircle Investments Limited) is a software publisher located in Nicosia, Cyprus in CY*. The company is a primary distributor of unwanted software. Part of the Brightcircle group of adware web browser extensions that utilize the Crossrider framework. These extensions are also known as Freven and are designed to utilize the framework in order to inject advertising banners in the underlying web browsers white space or by overlaying new ads over existing ones. Brightcircle distributes its software through malvertising practices such as displaying web pages taht tell the user that various core Windows software is out-dated and needs updating as well as drive-by downloads.
Authority:
COMODO CA Limited
Valid from:
11/17/2014 1:00:00 AM
Valid to:
11/18/2015 12:59:59 AM
Subject:
CN=BadFinger Project (BrightCircle Investments Limited), O=BadFinger Project (BrightCircle Investments Limited), STREET=Athinodorou 3, STREET=Dasoupoli Strovolos, L=Nicosia, S=Cyprus, PostalCode=2025, C=CY
Issuer:
CN=COMODO Code Signing CA 2, O=COMODO CA Limited, L=Salford, S=Greater Manchester, C=GB
Serial number:
6623fafcac357577a31d90c1e567e9a7
Scanner detections:
Detections (100% detected)
Scan engine
Details
Detections
Reason Heuristics
Adware.BrightCircle (M), Adware.Crossrider (M), PUP.Brightcircle (M)
100.00%
Latest 30 of 19,653 files
The following publishers (by Authenticode signature organization name) are related.
* Note, the details and description above are based on the code signing digital signature issued to BadFinger Project (BrightCircle Investments Limited) by COMODO CA Limited on November 17, 2014 with the serial number '6623fafcac357577a31d90c1e567e9a7'.