a53eede2-11ec-4b44-afcc-01984505d8fd-9.exe

Neon Alchemist Station

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 a53eede2-11ec-4b44-afcc-01984505d8fd-9.exe by Neon Alchemist Station 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 triggered to execute each time a user logs in. It is distributed as part of the Brightcircle group of browser-extensions.
Publisher:
Neon Alchemist Station  (signed and verified)

MD5:
64c3166c58e21dea42ab6bc8b41845c6

SHA-1:
02857c3cd1ba14501a3f1c10b6fa022b15fad737

SHA-256:
2783b6c15aee0b5281412188618af6a987478b27656b55ba2fb12436c88a5072

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:
4/23/2024 7:39:27 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Brightcircle (M)
17.3.15.9

File size:
920.4 KB (942,504 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Common path:
C:\Program Files\cinema-plus-2.3cv12.10\a53eede2-11ec-4b44-afcc-01984505d8fd-9.exe

Digital Signature
Authority:
COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:
8/28/2014 5:30:00 AM

Valid to:
8/29/2015 5:29:59 AM

Subject:
CN=Neon Alchemist Station, O=Neon Alchemist Station, 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:
4682924DB7F76F78C4C54215DBB9CE75

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
10/12/2014 1:22:15 AM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
11.0

Entry address:
0x73286

Entry point:
E8, 4C, 13, 01, 00, E9, 7F, FE, FF, FF, 51, 8D, 4C, 24, 04, 2B, C8, 1B, C0, F7, D0, 23, C8, 8B, C4, 25, 00, F0, FF, FF, 3B, C8, 72, 0A, 8B, C1, 59, 94, 8B, 00, 89, 04, 24, C3, 2D, 00, 10, 00, 00, 85, 00, EB, E9, 55, 8B, EC, E8, 0F, 00, 00, 00, 83, 7D, 08, 00, 74, 05, E8, 17, 1F, 01, 00, DB, E2, 5D, C3, B8, 59, 47, 48, 00, A3, 78, E8, 4C, 00, C7, 05, 7C, E8, 4C, 00, 39, 50, 48, 00, C7, 05, 80, E8, 4C, 00, C8, 50, 48, 00, C7, 05, 84, E8, 4C, 00, 20, 51, 48, 00, C7, 05, 88, E8, 4C, 00, A3, 51, 48, 00, A3, 8C...
 
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Entropy:
6.3804

Code size:
576.5 KB (590,336 bytes)

Scheduled Task
Task name:
a53eede2-11ec-4b44-afcc-01984505d8fd-9

Trigger:
Logon (Runs on logon)


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