browsers+_app#s#-bg.exe

Browsers+_App#s#

Micro Yellow Lab

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 browsers+_app#s#-bg.exe, “Browsers+_App#s# exe” by Micro Yellow Lab has been detected as adware by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. 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 Micro Yellow Lab)

Product:
Browsers+_App#s#

Description:
Browsers+_App#s# exe

Version:
1000.1000.1000.1000

MD5:
c491ec9a0499649bbc686347b18a794d

SHA-1:
86fbf6b564dbda309f2f9f9e7c4a0d226a4e60fd

SHA-256:
9363ab03cfbf285a481131ce589dfb38d535f621988cbcc8b5a781f9c214b25d

Scanner detections:
1 / 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 Micro Yellow Lab.

Analysis date:
4/19/2024 7:04:25 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
Adware.Crossrider (M)
16.12.23.12

File size:
608.9 KB (623,520 bytes)

Product version:
1000.1000.1000.1000

Copyright:
Copyright 2011

Original file name:
Browsers+_App#s#.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\Program Files\browsers+_app#s#\browsers+_app#s#-bg.exe

Digital Signature
Authority:
COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:
8/27/2014 5:00:00 PM

Valid to:
8/28/2015 4:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Micro Yellow Lab, O=Micro Yellow Lab, 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:
009AFA5E0D9A7B3EBDF9FADE2F928085CE

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
9/29/2014 12:39:28 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
11.0

Entry address:
0x51217

Entry point:
E8, 60, CC, 00, 00, E9, 00, 00, 00, 00, 6A, 14, 68, E8, 17, 49, 00, E8, 53, 49, 00, 00, E8, C7, 1C, 00, 00, 0F, B7, F0, 6A, 02, E8, F3, CB, 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, 71, 51, 00, 00, 85, C0, 75, 08, 6A, 1C, E8, DC, 00, 00, 00, 59, E8...
 
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Entropy:
6.4695

Code size:
482 KB (493,568 bytes)

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