OpenCandy Inc.
Publisher Information
OpenCandy Inc. is a software publisher located in San Diego, California in the United States*. The publisher primarily developes software that can be classified as adware. OpenCandy from SweetLabs is an ad-supported platform that allows publishers to include monetized offers in their software installers. Its advertising software module can be incorporated in a Windows/Nullsoft Installer and when a user installs a program that has the OpenCandy library, there is an option to install additional software that it recommends (based on geolocation). These offers are typically web browser toolbars and search extensions. Thre are 12 additional code signing certificates issued to this publisher.
Authority:
COMODO CA Limited
Valid from:
10/13/2014 2:00:00 AM
Valid to:
10/14/2015 1:59:59 AM
Subject:
CN=OpenCandy Inc., O=OpenCandy Inc., STREET="510 Market St #301", L=San Diego, S=CA, PostalCode=92101, C=US
Issuer:
CN=COMODO RSA Code Signing CA, O=COMODO CA Limited, L=Salford, S=Greater Manchester, C=GB
Serial number:
00bb7b40b95093a55585d1c267c0d46ee3
Scanner detections:
Detections (100% detected)
Scan engine
Details
Detections
Reason Heuristics
PUP.OpenCandy, Threat.OpenCandy, Threat.OpenCandy.Installer, PUP.OpenCandy.Installer, PUP.OpenCandy (M), PUP.OpenCandy.Installer (M)
100.00%
AVG
OpenCandy, AdPlugin, Generic
57.14%
AhnLab V3 Security
PUP/Win32.OpenCandy
42.86%
Dr.Web
Adware.OpenCandy.73, DLOADER.Trojan, Adware.OpenCandy.15, Adware.OpenCandy.56, Adware.OpenCandy.150, Adware.OpenCandy.170
39.29%
herdProtect (fuzzy)
a variant of 7d5729a0c7c000755b40f0c1798aeedfe41926b1, a variant of 9993f095d7013ea4bbd86ce7cdc55834a87303c9, a variant of 443d2470d206b8e384686a43973feafaf8ce8075
35.71%
Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.OpenCandy
32.14%
ESET NOD32
Win32/OpenCandy (variant), Win32/OpenCandy.E potentially unsafe (variant)
21.43%
VIPRE Antivirus
Opencandy
17.86%
G Data
Win32.Application.OpenCandy, Win32.Adware.OpenCandy
14.29%
Baidu Antivirus
Adware.Win32.OpenCandy
14.29%
The certificates below are also signed by OpenCandy Inc..
10 of 12 code signing certificates issued
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 OpenCandy Inc. by COMODO CA Limited on October 13, 2014 with the serial number '00bb7b40b95093a55585d1c267c0d46ee3'.