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uninstall.exe

Aussie Labs (BrightCircle Investments Limited)

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 Aussie Labs (BrightCircle Investments Limited) has been detected as adware by 8 anti-malware scanners. This is a self-extracting archive and installer and has been known to bundle potentially unwanted software. This is the uninstaller utility registered in the Windows Control Panel for the program TheHDvid-Codec V10 by home. This file is typically installed with the program TheHDvid-Codec V10 by Joseph CM which is a potentially unwanted software program. It is built using the Crossrider cross-browser extension toolkit. While the file utilizes the Crossrider framework and delivery services, it is not owned by Crossrider. It is part of the Brightcircle group of web-extensions that inject advertisements in the browser.

File name:

uninstall.exe

Publisher:

Aussie Labs (BrightCircle Investments Limited) (signed and verified)

MD5:

86650b4e2ce26be227c6fad1b2ea5757

SHA-1:

ea11ffddc2681900ff2f138c3922fece4501cf7e

SHA-256:

2604893ef03982bebc6fc201bb4e0321b0eda5868852c80b6e460c56d9a0641b

Scanner detections:

8 / 68

Status:

Adware

Explanation:

The software may change the browser's home page and search provider settings as well as display advertisements.

Analysis date:

4/23/2024 8:45:12 AM UTC (today)

Scan engine

Detection

Engine version

Avira AntiVirus

Adware/CrossRider.105432

7.11.189.70

Baidu Antivirus

PUA.Win32.CrossRider

4.0.3.141128

ESET NOD32

Win32/Toolbar.CrossRider.BM potentially unwanted application

7.0.302.0

G Data

Win32.Adware.Crossrider

14.11.24

Kaspersky

not-a-virus:AdWare.NSIS.Adwapper

15.0.0.543

Panda Antivirus

Generic Suspicious

14.11.28.04

Reason Heuristics

PUP.AussieLabsBrightCircleInvestmentsLimited.J

14.11.30.23

Rising Antivirus

PE:Malware.Obscure!1.9C59

23.00.65.141126

File size:

103 KB (105,432 bytes)

File type:

Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Common path:

C:\Program Files\thehdvid-codec v10\uninstall.exe

Digital Signature

Signed by:

Aussie Labs (BrightCircle Investments Limited)

Authority:

COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:

11/17/2014 2:00:00 AM

Valid to:

11/18/2015 1:59:59 AM

Subject:

CN=Aussie Labs (BrightCircle Investments Limited), O=Aussie Labs (BrightCircle Investments Limited), 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:

685AE12077846353AA542302DA532ABD

File PE Metadata

Compilation timestamp:

11/27/2014 2:04:15 AM

OS version:

5.1

OS bitness:

Win32

Subsystem:

Windows GUI

Linker version:

11.0

CTPH (ssdeep):

1536:5yYaDDD2pkxRI+MEtn+gastbaOE1R4yclSksWjcdCOT1I6bX:4YwVMOP4eVYCOT1Ia

Entry address:

0x59F7

Entry point:

E8, 7E, 64, 00, 00, E9, 00, 00, 00, 00, 6A, 14, 68, 30, 7F, 41, 00, E8, 23, 0A, 00, 00, E8, BA, 23, 00, 00, 0F, B7, F0, 6A, 02, E8, 11, 64, 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, F2, 5D, 00, 00, 85, C0, 75, 08, 6A, 1C, E8, DC, 00, 00, 00, 59, E8... 
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Code size:

68.5 KB (70,144 bytes)

Program Uninstaller

Program name:

TheHDvid-Codec V10

Display publisher:

home

Display version:

1.35.11.26

Uninstall string:

C:\Program Files\TheHDvid-Codec V10\Uninstall.exe /fcp=1

The file uninstall.exe has been discovered within the following program.

TheHDvid-Codec V10 by Joseph CM

TheHDvid-Codec is an advertising supported (adware) extension that runs in the context of the user's web browser as well as a process in the background.

crossrider.com/install/61180-thehdvid-codec-v10

83% remove it

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