Did you just download a file that has been digitally signed by COMODO CA Limited and wonder if the file is safe? If that's the case, please read on.
You'll probably see COMODO CA Limited when double-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 additional details from the COMODO CA Limited digital signature with the following steps:
Here's a screengrab of a file signed by COMODO CA Limited:
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 COMODO CA Limited and that the file has not been tampered with.
If you click the View Certificate button shown in the screenshot above, you can see all the details of the certificate, such as when it was issued, who issued the certificate, how long it is valid, and so on. You can also examine the address for COMODO CA Limited, such as the street name, city and country.
COMODO Code Signing CA 2 and UTN-USERFirst-Object has issued the COMODO CA Limited certificates. You can also see the details of the issuer by clicking the View Certificate button shown in the screengrab above.
These are the COMODO CA Limited files I have gathered, thanks to the FreeFixer users.
Detection Ratio | File Name |
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2/43 | certsentry.dll |
2/57 | certsentry.exe |
1/40 | VEngineIE32.dll |
1/46 | certsentry_setup.exe |
1/57 | certsentry.exe |
1/43 | VEngine.exe |
1/57 | certsentry_setup.exe |
0/46 | certsentry.dll |
0/48 | certsentry.dll |
0/47 | certsentry.dll |
0/47 | certsentry.dll |
0/47 | guard32.dll |
0/45 | certsentry.dll |
0/57 | certsentry.dll |
0/47 | certsentry.dll |
Here's the detection names for the COMODO CA Limited files. I have grouped the detection names by each scanner engine. Thanks to VirusTotal for the scan results.
Scanner | Detection Names |
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ByteHero | Trojan.Malware.Win32.xPack.m |
Symantec | Suspicious.Cloud, Suspicious.MLApp, Suspicious.Insight |
TheHacker | Posible_Worm32 |
TrendMicro-HouseCall | TROJ_GEN.F47V0825, Suspicious_GEN.F47V0130 |
The detection percentage is based on the fact that I have gathered 1378 scan results for the COMODO CA Limited files. 9 of these scan results came up with some sort of detection. If you like, you can view the full details of the scan reports by examining the files listed above.
In the analysis on this page I grouped all certificates where the signer name is set to upper and lower case variants of COMODO CA Limited. These are the signer names:
The analysis has been done on certificates with the following serial numbers: