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updater.exe

Ziggy Networks (Bright Circle Investments Ltd)

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 updater.exe, “updater 2.6.8, 2013” by Ziggy Networks (Bright Circle Investments) has been detected as adware by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. It is part of the Brightcircle group of web-extensions that inject advertisements in the browser.
Publisher:
Doctor PC  (signed by Ziggy Networks (Bright Circle Investments Ltd))

Product:
Doctor PC

Description:
updater 2.6.8, 2013

Version:
2.6.8

MD5:
370fcc4cf8a2c3d7076c88841086d197

SHA-1:
ce3a0765d2e7d33d3143d68bf85a6a968fbb7c28

SHA-256:
168d39f54120c270f7d6cd3423ef2902b9910899323877c007ad60b923059dfb

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:
11/23/2024 10:25:10 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
Adware.BrightCircle (M)
16.9.14.2

File size:
423.5 KB (433,672 bytes)

Product version:
2.6.8

Copyright:
Copyright (C) 2015 Doctor PC

Original file name:
updater.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\roaming\doctor pc\doctor pc 2.6.8\install\951385c\updater.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Ziggy Networks (Bright Circle Investments Ltd)

Authority:
COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:
12/16/2014 1:00:00 AM

Valid to:
12/17/2015 12:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=Ziggy Networks (Bright Circle Investments Ltd), O=Ziggy Networks (Bright Circle Investments Ltd), 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:
00BBB0E0273DE6CDFEF0992B8F1F6BE5C9

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
10/7/2014 5:01:18 PM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
6144:0GDVPVmyTCYbbLe+Bz1iE1/M7xbQE9VP/lXHDx4Qyg9M2HvQ:0GCyTCYbbfB1iEm7xME95RF4KQ

Entry address:
0x10F92

Entry point:
E8, EE, 75, 00, 00, E9, 79, FE, FF, FF, 68, 00, 10, 41, 00, 64, FF, 35, 00, 00, 00, 00, 8B, 44, 24, 10, 89, 6C, 24, 10, 8D, 6C, 24, 10, 2B, E0, 53, 56, 57, A1, 44, 10, 44, 00, 31, 45, FC, 33, C5, 50, 89, 65, E8, FF, 75, F8, 8B, 45, FC, C7, 45, FC, FE, FF, FF, FF, 89, 45, F8, 8D, 45, F0, 64, A3, 00, 00, 00, 00, C3, 8B, 4D, F0, 64, 89, 0D, 00, 00, 00, 00, 59, 5F, 5F, 5E, 5B, 8B, E5, 5D, 51, C3, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 83, EC, 18, 53, 8B, 5D, 0C, 56, 8B, 73, 08, 33, 35...
 
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Code size:
227.5 KB (232,960 bytes)

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