Porter Studio Plus
Publisher Information
Porter Studio Plus 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:
10/19/2014 10:00:00 PM
Valid to:
10/20/2015 9:59:59 PM
Subject:
CN=Porter Studio Plus, O=Porter Studio Plus, 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:
00b7ba41cfba8d50af9a2a64362c08fa91
Scanner detections:
Detections (100% detected)
Scan engine
Details
Detections
Reason Heuristics
PUP.Brightcircle (M), Adware.Crossrider (M)
100.00%
Downloads URLs for files signed by Porter Studio Plus.
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 Porter Studio Plus by COMODO CA Limited on October 19, 2014 with the serial number '00b7ba41cfba8d50af9a2a64362c08fa91'.