ESight Insight - 40% Detection Rate *
Did you just stumble upon a download or a file on your computer that has a digital signature from ESight Insight? Some of the security products refers to the detected files as PUP.Optional.Yontoo and Trj/Genetic.gen. The detection rate for the ESight Insight files collected here is 40%. Please read on for more details.
You will typically notice ESight Insight when clicking to run the file. The publisher name is then displayed as the "Verified publisher" in the UAC dialog as the screenshot shows:
You can view the digital signature details for ESight Insight with the following procedure:
- Open Windows Explorer and locate the ESight Insight file
- Right-click the file and select Properties
- Click the Digital Signatures tab
- Click on the View Certificate button
Here's a screenshot of a file digitally signed by ESight Insight:
As you can see in the screenshot above, Windows reports that "This digital signature is OK". This means that the file has been published by ESight Insight and that the file has not been tampered with.
If you click the View Certificate button shown in the screencap above, you can examine all the details of the certificate, such as when it was issued, who issued the certificate, how long it is valid, etc. You can also examine the address for ESight Insight, such as the street name, city and country.
VeriSign Class 3 Code Signing 2010 CA has issued the ESight Insight certificates. You can also see the details of the issuer by clicking the View Certificate button shown in the screenshot above.
ESight Insight Files
These are the ESight Insight files I have collected, thanks to the FreeFixer users.
| Detection Ratio | File Name |
|---|---|
| 26/57 | {A839C3FD-2F9B-4AD1-9AAA-E9B2119FEF8B}.dll |
| 28/57 | Plugin.exe |
| 20/57 | 4944affb-e1c2-4ffb-a3c7-e424ea82e577.dll |
| 20/57 | 4944affb-e1c2-4ffb-a3c7-e424ea82e577.dll |
| 24/57 | 4944affb-e1c2-4ffb-a3c7-e424ea82e577.dll |
| 12/56 | 9b94dd1e-f92e-470b-b098-7dfa23b44cf9.dll |
| 26/58 | Plugin.exe |
| 17/58 | Plugin.exe |
| 27/58 | updater.exe |
Scanner and Detection Names
Here is the detection names for the ESight Insight files. I've grouped the detection names by each scanner engine. Thanks to VirusTotal for the scan results.
| Scanner | Detection Names |
|---|---|
| ALYac | Gen:Variant.Adware.Graftor.275340, Gen:Adware.BrowseFox.1 |
| AVG | Generic.B15, AdPlugin.IMR |
| Ad-Aware | Gen:Variant.Adware.Graftor.275340, Gen:Adware.BrowseFox.1 |
| AegisLab | AdWare.W32.Agent, AdWare.W32.Yotoon |
| Agnitum | Riskware.Agent! |
| AhnLab-V3 | PUP/Win32.BrowseFox |
| Antiy-AVL | GrayWare[AdWare]/Win32.BrowseFox.dz, Trojan/Win32.TSGeneric, GrayWare[AdWare]/Win32.BrowseFox.bz |
| Arcabit | Trojan.Adware.Graftor.D4338C, Adware.BrowseFox.1 |
| Avast | Win32:Adware-gen [Adw] |
| Avira | ADWARE/BrowseFox.Gen, ADWARE/BrowseFox.Gen7 |
| Baidu | Win32.Trojan.WisdomEyes.151026.9950.9975, Win32.Trojan.WisdomEyes.151026.9950.9978 |
| Baidu-International | Adware.Win32.BrowseFox.CJ |
| BitDefender | Gen:Variant.Adware.Graftor.275340, Gen:Adware.BrowseFox.1 |
| Bkav | W32.HfsAdware.5619 |
| ClamAV | Heuristics.Trojan.Swizzor.Gen, Win.Adware.Browsefox-42699 |
| Comodo | Application.Win32.BrowseFox.ACN |
| Cyren | W32/S-4e4ad645!Eldorado, W32/S-5d67444a!Eldorado, W32/S-6e2e7721!Eldorado, W32/S-fde75f2d!Eldorado, W32/S-34c2556d!Eldorado, W32/S-b844dee6!Eldorado |
| DrWeb | Trojan.Yontoo.4811 |
| ESET-NOD32 | a variant of Win32/BrowseFox.DD potentially unwanted, a variant of Win32/BrowseFox.DB potentially unwanted, a variant of Win32/BrowseFox.CJ potentially unwanted, a variant of Win32/BrowseFox.CY potentially unwanted |
| Emsisoft | Gen:Variant.Adware.Graftor.275340 (B), Gen:Adware.BrowseFox.1 (B) |
| F-Prot | W32/S-4e4ad645!Eldorado, W32/S-5d67444a!Eldorado, W32/S-6e2e7721!Eldorado, W32/S-fde75f2d!Eldorado, W32/S-34c2556d!Eldorado, W32/S-b844dee6!Eldorado |
| F-Secure | Gen:Variant.Adware.Graftor, Gen:Adware.BrowseFox.1 |
| Fortinet | Adware/BrowserFox |
| GData | Gen:Variant.Adware.Graftor.275340, Gen:Adware.BrowseFox.1, Win32.Adware.BrowseFox.X@gen |
| Ikarus | AdWare.BrowseFox, PUA.BrowseFox |
| Jiangmin | AdWare.BrowseFox.bbhu, AdWare.BrowseFox.ayiw, AdWare.Generic.bijj |
| K7AntiVirus | Unwanted-Program ( 004deff11 ), Unwanted-Program ( 004e11471 ), Adware ( 004d941e1 ) |
| K7GW | Unwanted-Program ( 004deff11 ), Unwanted-Program ( 004e11471 ), Adware ( 004d941e1 ) |
| Kaspersky | not-a-virus:AdWare.Win32.BrowseFox.dild |
| Malwarebytes | PUP.Optional.Yontoo |
| McAfee-GW-Edition | BehavesLike.Win32.BrowseFox.ch |
| MicroWorld-eScan | Gen:Variant.Adware.Graftor.275340, Gen:Adware.BrowseFox.1 |
| NANO-Antivirus | Riskware.Win32.BrowseFox.dzvgxa |
| Panda | Trj/Genetic.gen |
| Qihoo-360 | HEUR/QVM30.1.0000.Malware.Gen, HEUR/QVM10.1.0000.Malware.Gen, Win32/Virus.Adware.708, HEUR/QVM30.1.Malware.Gen |
| Rising | PE:Trojan.BrowseFox!1.A470 [F], PE:Malware.Generic(Thunder)!1.A1C4 [F] |
| SUPERAntiSpyware | PUP.Yontoo/Variant |
| Sophos | Generic PUA DA (PUA), Browse Fox (PUA) |
| Symantec | PUA.Yontoo.C!gen4 |
| Tencent | Win32.Risk.Adware.Lqow, Win32.Risk.Adware.Glp, Win32.Risk.Adware.Dzsv |
| VBA32 | AdWare.Yotoon |
| Yandex | Riskware.Agent! |
* How the Detection Percentage is Calculated
The detection percentage is based on the fact that I have gathered 630 scan reports for the ESight Insight files. 254 of these scan reports came up with some sort of detection. You can view the full details of the scan results by examining the files listed above.
Analysis Details
The analysis is done on certificates with the following serial numbers:
- 19484bd7d8dd4b8619c11740d5ae0229