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BrowserAppsPlus2.1

BadFinger Project (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 browserappsplus2.1-bg.exe, “BrowserAppsPlus2.1 exe” by BadFinger Project (BrightCircle Investments Limited) has been detected as adware by 21 anti-malware scanners. Part of the Corssrider web browser platform, the BG executable is a background process that manage various function of the installed extensions in user's browser including managing installation, updates and remote code downloads. It is part of the Brightcircle group of web-extensions that inject advertisements in the browser.
Publisher:
App  (signed by BadFinger Project (BrightCircle Investments Limited))

Product:
BrowserAppsPlus2.1

Description:
BrowserAppsPlus2.1 exe

Version:
1000.1000.1000.1000

MD5:
847819a7e284d9332e71172d1fe80d45

SHA-1:
8748f0c7c3383079a2498ac853bf38363b03e7a0

SHA-256:
d79fbfc67d473bf9321500ff9cabd57d78bbdac8a0da23a03fda2282a428b4cb

Scanner detections:
21 / 68

Status:
Adware

Explanation:
The software may change the browser's home page and search provider settings as well as display advertisements.

Note:
Crossrider is the owner of a platform that enables the creation of cross-browser extensions by developers but is not the owner of this detected application. The owner/publisher of this file is BadFinger Project (BrightCircle Investments Limited).

Analysis date:
4/25/2024 7:26:22 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Gen:Application.Heur.Ou1@kqEwiNii
778

Avira AntiVirus
ADWARE/CrossRider.Gen7
7.11.195.126

AVG
Generic
2015.0.3259

Baidu Antivirus
PUA.Win32.CrossRider
4.0.3.141215

Bitdefender
Gen:Application.Heur.Ou1@kqEwiNii
1.0.20.1765

ESET NOD32
Win32/Toolbar.CrossRider.BA (variant)
8.10876

Fortinet FortiGate
Riskware/CrossRider
12/19/2014

F-Secure
Gen:Application.Heur.Ou1@kqEwiNii
11.2014-19-12_6

G Data
Gen:Application.Heur.Ou1@kqEwiNii
14.12.24

Kaspersky
not-a-virus:AdWare.NSIS.Adwapper
14.0.0.2790

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.BrowserAppsPlus.A
v2014.12.15.09

McAfee
Artemis!D9C2434DFA10
5600.6915

MicroWorld eScan
Gen:Application.Heur.Ou1@kqEwiNii
15.0.0.1059

NANO AntiVirus
Riskware.Win32.Crossrider.djqngq
0.28.6.63850

Panda Antivirus
Trj/Genetic.gen
14.12.15.09

Qihoo 360 Security
HEUR/QVM10.1.Malware.Gen
1.0.0.1015

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Crossrider.BadFingerProjectBrightCircleInvestmentsLimited.U
14.12.15.21

Rising Antivirus
PE:Malware.Obscure!1.9C59
23.00.65.141213

Sophos
Generic PUA EG
4.98

Trend Micro House Call
Suspicious_GEN.F47V1212
7.2.349

VIPRE Antivirus
Crossrider
35730

File size:
511 KB (523,232 bytes)

Product version:
1000.1000.1000.1000

Copyright:
Copyright 2011

Original file name:
BrowserAppsPlus2.1.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\Program Files\browserappsplus2.1\browserappsplus2.1-bg.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
BadFinger Project (BrightCircle Investments Limited)

Authority:
COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:
11/16/2014 7:00:00 PM

Valid to:
11/17/2015 6:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=BadFinger Project (BrightCircle Investments Limited), O=BadFinger Project (BrightCircle Investments Limited), 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:
6623FAFCAC357577A31D90C1E567E9A7

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
12/13/2014 8:07:16 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
11.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
6144:yT4zSxSeaCdTJ6Gf7yTIsk6jDUp131DiSVzYBjcfkWFp2TBJnEG+Ur3mfB:yT46bld9ff7yTqBixVMFp2T3nEmw

Entry address:
0x3ED95

Entry point:
E8, 72, AE, 00, 00, E9, 00, 00, 00, 00, 6A, 14, 68, F0, 87, 47, 00, E8, 25, 30, 00, 00, E8, B7, 1B, 00, 00, 0F, B7, F0, 6A, 02, E8, 05, AE, 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, F5, 35, 00, 00, 85, C0, 75, 08, 6A, 1C, E8, DC, 00, 00, 00, 59, E8...
 
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Entropy:
6.5224

Code size:
383.5 KB (392,704 bytes)

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