AcDc Project (BrightCircle Investments Limited)
Publisher Information
AcDc Project (BrightCircle Investments Limited) is a software developer located in Nicosia, CY*. The company is a primary distributor of unwanted software. Part of the Brightcircle group of adware web browser extensions that utilize the Crossrider framework. These extensions are also known as Freven and are designed to utilize the framework in order to inject advertising banners in the underlying web browsers white space or by overlaying new ads over existing ones. Brightcircle distributes its software through malvertising practices such as displaying web pages taht tell the user that various core Windows software is out-dated and needs updating as well as drive-by downloads.
Authority:
COMODO CA Limited
Valid from:
12/1/2014 1:00:00 AM
Valid to:
12/2/2015 12:59:59 AM
Subject:
CN=AcDc Project (BrightCircle Investments Limited), O=AcDc Project (BrightCircle Investments Limited), 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:
00bb5cb272841409598560e8776848bbf4
Scanner detections:
Detections (100% detected)
Scan engine
Details
Detections
Reason Heuristics
Adware.Crossrider (M), Adware.BrightCircle (M), PUP.Brightcircle (M)
100.00%
Latest 30 of 12,146 files
The following publishers (by Authenticode signature organization name) are related.
* Note, the details and description above are based on the code signing digital signature issued to AcDc Project (BrightCircle Investments Limited) by COMODO CA Limited on December 01, 2014 with the serial number '00bb5cb272841409598560e8776848bbf4'.