Ivan Kostin
Publisher Information
Ivan Kostin is a brand of publishers/developers run by WebPick Internet Holdings Ltd. located in Ramat Ha'Chayal Tel Aviv, Israel. The company is a primary distributor of unwanted software. Ivan Kostin is a developer of WebPick Internet Holdings and publishes a number of adware web browser plugins designed to monitor web browser behavior and inject advertisements (banner, popups, text-links, etc.) in the browser by using the WebPick InstalleRex monetization delivery platform. These programs from Ivan Kostin are typiclaly installed on a variety of names and misspellings and are very difficult to remove. According to WebPick, they use developers to sign their adware in order to "throw off competitors".
Authority:
COMODO CA Limited
Valid from:
8/25/2013 7:00:00 AM
Valid to:
8/26/2014 6:59:59 AM
Subject:
CN=Ivan Kostin, O=Ivan Kostin, STREET=Pobedy 33/1, L=Kyiv, S=Kyiv, PostalCode=03170, C=UA
Issuer:
CN=COMODO Code Signing CA 2, O=COMODO CA Limited, L=Salford, S=Greater Manchester, C=GB
Serial number:
00eb11d24ce6ddbbf752fe4dc3d683d2bf
Scanner detections:
Detections (100% detected)
Scan engine
Details
Detections
Reason Heuristics
Adware (M), PUP.WebPick (M)
100.00%
Downloads URLs for files signed by Ivan Kostin.
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 Ivan Kostin by COMODO CA Limited on August 25, 2013 with the serial number '00eb11d24ce6ddbbf752fe4dc3d683d2bf'.