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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 PlusHD Q-9.1V22.12 by PlusHD Q-9.1V22.12. It is distributed as part of the Brightcircle group of browser-extensions.
Publisher:
Armageddon Labs (BrightCircle Investments Limited)  (signed and verified)

MD5:
78041f7698dacb4c0a6c2ba024be265d

SHA-1:
d310d8d347e131344a0bfa2c349144fcc5026c79

SHA-256:
7884cef2c6c246135543db88c6beeeae2df1c324c0ab3fc8f8e28887ce15f94e

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 2:24:06 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Brightcicrle (M)
17.3.16.9

File size:
113 KB (115,680 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Common path:
C:\Program Files\plushd q-9.1v22.12\uninstall.exe

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

Authority:
COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:
11/30/2014 7:00:00 PM

Valid to:
12/1/2015 6:59:59 PM

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 6:33:27 AM

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:
6.4290

Code size:
78 KB (79,872 bytes)

Program Uninstaller
Program name:
PlusHD Q-9.1V22.12

Display publisher:
PlusHD Q-9.1V22.12

Display version:
1.35.12.18

Uninstall string:
C:\Program Files (x86)\PlusHD Q-9.1V22.12\Uninstall.exe /fcp=1


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