utility.exe

NightWish Center (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 utility.exe by NightWish Center (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 runs as a scheduled task under the Windows Task Scheduler named Crossbrowse triggered to execute each time a user logs in. It is part of the Brightcircle group of web-extensions that inject advertisements in the browser.
Publisher:

MD5:
ff1d79363bc946968467dbf2738e0d6a

SHA-1:
95b937d6b8f670cddd2e7d848925fabb36b6e090

SHA-256:
90e7c4818e543c5fcd310d593a3296f973f7848c0dbe233148dd6d82780a2fd5

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:
4/17/2025 11:43:29 PM UTC  (a few moments ago)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
Adware.BrightCircle.NightWis (M)
16.3.11.20

File size:
1.2 MB (1,213,920 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Common path:
C:\Program Files\crossbrowse\crossbrowse\application\utility.exe

Digital Signature
Authority:
COMODO CA Limited

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

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

Subject:
CN=NightWish Center (Bright Circle Investments Ltd), O=NightWish Center (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:
00B30349E6AD66949988B51360F031BFB4

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
1/22/2015 10:53:22 AM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
11.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:a8tTQwc+BKxUrGsepAYm8pw/md7Rc7TTpSmyfeaPi369qXxPj:HyxAEp3gTTpSmyfe169oxPj

Entry address:
0x94CD2

Entry point:
E8, 61, 0D, 01, 00, E9, 7F, FE, FF, FF, CC, CC, CC, CC, 57, 56, 8B, 74, 24, 10, 8B, 4C, 24, 14, 8B, 7C, 24, 0C, 8B, C1, 8B, D1, 03, C6, 3B, FE, 76, 08, 3B, F8, 0F, 82, 68, 03, 00, 00, 0F, BA, 25, DC, C6, 4F, 00, 01, 73, 07, F3, A4, E9, 17, 03, 00, 00, 81, F9, 80, 00, 00, 00, 0F, 82, CE, 01, 00, 00, 8B, C7, 33, C6, A9, 0F, 00, 00, 00, 75, 0E, 0F, BA, 25, 2C, 91, 4F, 00, 01, 0F, 82, DA, 04, 00, 00, 0F, BA, 25, DC, C6, 4F, 00, 00, 0F, 83, A7, 01, 00, 00, F7, C7, 03, 00, 00, 00, 0F, 85, B8, 01, 00, 00, F7, C6...
 
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Code size:
723.5 KB (740,864 bytes)

Scheduled Task
Task name:
Crossbrowse

Trigger:
Logon (Runs on logon)


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