Magnesium Play Apps
Publisher Information
Magnesium Play Apps is a software publisher located in Nicosia, Cyprus in 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:
8/27/2014 5:00:00 PM
Valid to:
8/28/2015 4:59:59 PM
Subject:
CN=Magnesium Play Apps, O=Magnesium Play Apps, 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:
0085bad4ab3bc6504e824183f7ea00bca6
Scanner detections:
Detections (100% detected)
Scan engine
Details
Detections
Reason Heuristics
PUP.Brightcircle (M), Adware.Crossrider (M), PUP.Brightcircle.Task
100.00%
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 Magnesium Play Apps by COMODO CA Limited on August 27, 2014 with the serial number '0085bad4ab3bc6504e824183f7ea00bca6'.