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Armageddon Labs (BrightCircle Investments Limited)

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 uninstall.exe by Armageddon Labs (BrightCircle Investments Limited) has been detected as adware by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. This is the uninstaller utility registered in the Windows Control Panel for the program HQ Cinema Video 1.8V21.12 by HQ VideoV21.12. It is distributed as part of the Brightcircle group of browser-extensions.
Publisher:
Armageddon Labs (BrightCircle Investments Limited)  (signed and verified)

MD5:
e278172bdb92b8c32de529466859ff63

SHA-1:
242e61c837d4ba35fb01a986424dec600861ad43

SHA-256:
01b89fc01d312da102b785bfab43de74ba7960d30ceabc50e797c3c1f05c7b08

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:
12/25/2024 2:16:11 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Brightcicrle (M)
17.3.8.2

File size:
113 KB (115,680 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Common path:
C:\Program Files\hq cinema video 1.8v21.12\uninstall.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Armageddon Labs (BrightCircle Investments Limited)

Authority:
COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:
12/1/2014 10:00:00 AM

Valid to:
12/2/2015 9:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=Armageddon Labs (BrightCircle Investments Limited), O=Armageddon Labs (BrightCircle Investments Limited), 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:
00C5692390E715129E144F950D09DA6E8A

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
12/21/2014 9:33:27 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
11.0

Entry address:
0x7DCF

Entry point:
E8, 4D, 66, 00, 00, E9, 00, 00, 00, 00, 6A, 14, 68, 08, A1, 41, 00, E8, 2B, 0A, 00, 00, E8, A4, 3C, 00, 00, 0F, B7, F0, 6A, 02, E8, E0, 65, 00, 00, 59, B8, 4D, 5A, 00, 00, 66, 39, 05, 00, 00, 40, 00, 74, 04, 33, DB, EB, 33, A1, 3C, 00, 40, 00, 81, B8, 00, 00, 40, 00, 50, 45, 00, 00, 75, EB, B9, 0B, 01, 00, 00, 66, 39, 88, 18, 00, 40, 00, 75, DD, 33, DB, 83, B8, 74, 00, 40, 00, 0E, 76, 09, 39, 98, E8, 00, 40, 00, 0F, 95, C3, 89, 5D, E4, E8, C1, 5F, 00, 00, 85, C0, 75, 08, 6A, 1C, E8, DC, 00, 00, 00, 59, E8...
 
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Entropy:
6.4292

Code size:
78 KB (79,872 bytes)

Program Uninstaller
Program name:
HQ Cinema Video 1.8V21.12

Display publisher:
HQ VideoV21.12

Display version:
1.35.12.18

Uninstall string:
C:\Program Files (x86)\HQ Cinema Video 1.8V21.12\Uninstall.exe /fcp=1


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