{"id":615,"date":"2014-05-28T07:57:34","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T07:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/?p=615"},"modified":"2018-05-29T12:02:53","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T12:02:53","slug":"stas-kosmov-publisher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/stas-kosmov-publisher\/","title":{"rendered":"Stas Kosmov Publisher &#8211; Digital Signature Warning!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For some unknown reason I had trouble sleeping this night, so instead I spent a few hours hunting some adware installers. I found a file digitally signed by\u00a0<strong>Stas Kosmov<\/strong> that bundled lots of unwanted software.\u00a0<strong>Stas Kosmov<\/strong> will appear as the publisher when double-clicking on the file and in the file&#8217;s digital signature tab. According to the certificate\u00a0<strong>Stas Kosmov<\/strong> is located in Kiev, Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/stas-kosmov-publisher.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-618 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/stas-kosmov-publisher.png\" alt=\"Stas Kosmov Publisher - Installer for TopApp soft\" width=\"479\" height=\"274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/stas-kosmov-publisher.png 479w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/stas-kosmov-publisher-300x171.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 479px) 100vw, 479px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/stas-kosmov-digital-signature.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-616 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/stas-kosmov-digital-signature.png\" alt=\"Stas Kosmov Digital Signature\" width=\"423\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/stas-kosmov-digital-signature.png 423w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/stas-kosmov-digital-signature-300x185.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 423px) 100vw, 423px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/stas-kosmov-kiev-ukraine.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-617 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/stas-kosmov-kiev-ukraine.png\" alt=\"Stas Kosmov Kiev Ukraine\" width=\"425\" height=\"446\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/stas-kosmov-kiev-ukraine.png 425w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/stas-kosmov-kiev-ukraine-285x300.png 285w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, what does the anti-virus scanners say about this file? The following scan result should convince you to not run the\u00a0<strong>Stas Kosmov<\/strong> file:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/library\/file\/How%20I%20Met%20Your%20Mother%20S09E22%20HDTV%20x264-KILLERS%5Bettv%5D.exe-128331\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-619 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/stas-kosmov-virus-total.png\" alt=\"stas kosmov virus total\" width=\"775\" height=\"524\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/stas-kosmov-virus-total.png 775w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/stas-kosmov-virus-total-300x202.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 775px) 100vw, 775px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Did you also find a file signed by\u00a0<strong>Stas Kosmov<\/strong>? Where did you find it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For some unknown reason I had trouble sleeping this night, so instead I spent a few hours hunting some adware installers. I found a file digitally signed by\u00a0Stas Kosmov that bundled lots of unwanted software.\u00a0Stas Kosmov will appear as the publisher when double-clicking on the file and in the file&#8217;s digital signature tab. According to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/stas-kosmov-publisher\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Stas Kosmov Publisher &#8211; Digital Signature Warning!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":621,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions\/621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}