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Winston Project

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 uninstall.exe by Winston Project has been detected as adware by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. It is distributed as part of the Brightcircle group of browser-extensions.
Publisher:
Winston Project  (signed and verified)

MD5:
4dac3bcd2f37b7934e5ab3d73485a7fe

SHA-1:
25c975109b10f3dd35b1d787206433abce4d8d32

SHA-256:
77a21ecbb1719aae00b88c45abd5b3d6bf3975bb6d0ce0b177bdc89c93804f89

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Adware

Note:
Our current pool of anti-malware engines have not currently detected this file, however based on our own detection heuristics we feel that this file is unwanted.

Analysis date:
4/19/2024 12:30:39 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Brightcircle (M)
17.3.10.9

File size:
87.4 KB (89,496 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Common path:
C:\Program Files\hq-video-pro-2.1v20.11\uninstall.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Winston Project

Authority:
COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:
10/19/2014 7:00:00 PM

Valid to:
10/20/2015 6:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Winston Project, O=Winston Project, 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:
00B312FD1B7F10CF48C48080B24091FB8E

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
11/19/2014 2:35:18 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
11.0

Entry address:
0x51EE

Entry point:
E8, 6D, 5B, 00, 00, E9, 00, 00, 00, 00, 6A, 14, 68, F8, 3E, 41, 00, E8, 2C, 0A, 00, 00, E8, 4A, 33, 00, 00, 0F, B7, F0, 6A, 02, E8, 00, 5B, 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, E1, 54, 00, 00, 85, C0, 75, 08, 6A, 1C, E8, DC, 00, 00, 00, 59, E8...
 
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Entropy:
6.2643

Code size:
53.5 KB (54,784 bytes)

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