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Blondie Project (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 setup.exe by Blondie Project (Bright Circle Investments) has been detected as adware by 21 anti-malware scanners. This is a setup and installation application and has been known to bundle potentially unwanted software. It is built using the Crossrider cross-browser extension platform. While the file utilizes the Crossrider framework and delivery services, it is not owned by Crossrider. It is distributed as part of the Brightcircle group of browser-extensions.
Publisher:
Blondie Project (Bright Circle Investments Ltd)  (signed and verified)

MD5:
a6fbe7ec6fe4abe7b84ba4bd402b31e2

SHA-1:
5df3327b11390facb8128ed6a6db1e5e0a28d9bf

SHA-256:
e0ac308b34eef2df2ccdd90686382cce18842da6053465d4ab9d68b6fac4abc2

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. Distributed through the Brightcircle investments brand.

Analysis date:
4/26/2024 3:43:33 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Gen:Variant.Adware.Zusy.127996
707

AhnLab V3 Security
PUP/Win32.CrossRider
2015.02.28

Avira AntiVirus
ADWARE/CrossRider.Gen7
7.11.212.188

Bitdefender
Gen:Variant.Adware.Zusy.127996
1.0.20.290

Comodo Security
TrojWare.Win32.TrojanDropper.Addrop.A
21231

Dr.Web
Trojan.Crossrider1.18052
9.0.1.058

Emsisoft Anti-Malware
Gen:Variant.Adware.Zusy.127996
8.15.02.27.11

ESET NOD32
Win32/TrojanDropper.Addrop (variant)
9.11244

Fortinet FortiGate
W32/Agent.PEOK!tr
2/27/2015

F-Secure
Gen:Variant.Adware.Zusy.127996
11.2015-27-02_6

G Data
Gen:Variant.Adware.Zusy.127996
15.2.25

Kaspersky
Trojan-Dropper.Win32.Agent
14.0.0.2420

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.CrossRider.A
v2015.02.27.11

McAfee
Artemis!A6FBE7EC6FE4
5600.6841

MicroWorld eScan
Gen:Variant.Adware.Zusy.127996
16.0.0.174

Panda Antivirus
Trj/Genetic.gen
15.02.27.11

Qihoo 360 Security
HEUR/QVM20.1.Malware.Gen
1.0.0.1015

Reason Heuristics
Adware.BrightCircle.Installer
15.3.1.12

Vba32 AntiVirus
TrojanDropper.Agent
3.12.26.3

VIPRE Antivirus
Crossrider
37964

ViRobot
Trojan.Win32.Agent.207280[h]
2014.3.20.0

File size:
203.9 KB (208,816 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\temp\{random}.tmp\setup.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Blondie Project (Bright Circle Investments Ltd)

Authority:
COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:
12/15/2014 7:00:00 PM

Valid to:
12/16/2015 6:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Blondie Project (Bright Circle Investments Ltd), O=Blondie Project (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:
0903CC287C7EEA81D3C21DBB234D320C

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
2/1/2015 1:46:10 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
12.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
3072:1dYhor/3Y15T9FtOCcV1oBUHdpNdFE9vG00xfkreSKTPjbbZemMR//Wf1NqnF:1dB3M55Ft0WSez0CreSwLbI3W98nF

Entry address:
0x1000

Entry point:
55, 8B, EC, 81, EC, A0, 00, 00, 00, C7, 45, F4, 00, 00, 00, 00, EB, 09, 8B, 45, F4, 83, C0, 01, 89, 45, F4, 81, 7D, F4, 80, 00, 00, 00, 7D, 12, B9, 01, 00, 00, 00, 6B, D1, 00, C6, 84, 15, 60, FF, FF, FF, 00, EB, DC, 68, 80, 00, 00, 00, 8D, 85, 60, FF, FF, FF, 50, 6A, 00, FF, 15, 14, 20, 40, 00, 6A, 00, 68, 80, 00, 00, 00, 6A, 02, 6A, 00, 6A, 00, 68, 00, 00, 00, 40, 68, 52, 20, 40, 00, FF, 15, 1C, 20, 40, 00, 89, 45, E8, 0F, B7, 0D, 2C, 20, 40, 00, 89, 4D, F0, 8B, 55, F0, C1, E2, 04, 89, 55, F0, A1, 4E, 20...
 
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Entropy:
7.5760

Developed / compiled with:
Microsoft Visual C++

Code size:
512 Bytes (512 bytes)

The file setup.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

http://dl.ourinfoonlinestack.com/brwaapplus12/wspops/.../setup.exe

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