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This extension was removed from the Chrome Web Store as malware. Do not install it.Extension: Paintly

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Paintly

ID: glfondjanahgpmkgjggafhdnbbcidhgf

Could be malicious

Supported Languages

🇧🇩Bengali

🇧🇷Brazilian Portuguese

🇬🇧British English

🇧🇬Bulgarian

🇪🇸Catalan

🇨🇳Chinese (Simplified)

🇹🇼Chinese (Traditional)

🇭🇷Croatian

🇨🇿Czech

🇩🇰Danish

🇳🇱Dutch

🇺🇸English

🇪🇪Estonian

🇵🇭Filipino

🇫🇮Finnish

🇫🇷French

🇩🇪German

🇬🇷Greek

🇮🇳Gujarati

🇮🇳Hindi

🇭🇺Hungarian

🇮🇩Indonesian

🇮🇹Italian

🇯🇵Japanese

🇰🇷Korean

🇲🇽Latin American Spanish

🇱🇻Latvian

🇱🇹Lithuanian

🇲🇾Malay

🇮🇳Malayalam

🇮🇳Marathi

🇳🇴Norwegian

🇵🇱Polish

🇵🇹Portuguese

🇷🇴Romanian

🇷🇺Russian

🇷🇸Serbian

🇸🇰Slovak

🇸🇮Slovenian

🇪🇸Spanish

🇸🇪Swedish

🇮🇳Tamil

🇮🇳Telugu

🇹🇭Thai

🇹🇷Turkish

🇺🇦Ukrainian

🇺🇸US English

🇻🇳Vietnamese

Extension Info & Metadata

Status

Removed

Version

1.3.2

Size

0.22 MB

Rating

4.2/5

Reviews

Users

300,000

Type

Extension

Updated

Oct 19, 2021

Publisher Contextual Analysis

Author: impectillxoView Profile
MX records exist: Yes
Domain exists: Yes
Is disposable: No
Is role-based: No
Mailbox exists: Yes

Total Extensions

Active

Obsolete

Listed

Unlisted

Total Users

300,000

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Web paint tool. Draw on web pages and take screnshots

Paintly allows you to draw on web pages! You can annotate web page screenshots with figures, brushes, and text. Features: ⭐ Familiar paint tools - figures, brushes, background filler, etc ⭐ Use different shapes, sizes and colors ⭐ Export as a screenshot

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By severity

Critical2

High5

Medium1

Low0

Versions scanned

Showing 2 of 2 scanned versions with more than one unique finding. Counts are unique findings that include each version.

Extension Version	Code Review Findings
1.3.2 Code review	3
1.3.1 Code review	5

Extension Version	Code Review Findings
1.3.2	3
1.3.1	5

Files with findings

2 distinct paths — top paths by unique finding count:

bg.js7
manifest.json1

S.No.	Category	Severity	File	Summary	Found in Version
1	Obfuscation	critical	bg.js (line 1)	The processQueue function constructs a base64-encoded payload containing the extension's unique runtime ID, the install/update action reason, and a current timestamp — formatted as a URL query string. However, the res…	1.3.1
2	Remote Code Loading	critical	bg.js (line 203)	The background script builds a remote URL (`https://serasearchtop.com/...`) and fetches JSON after a time delay, then immediately passes the response into `wrapObject(chrome, e)`. This is a strong remote code/config l…	1.3.2
3	Code Injection	high	manifest.json (line 1)	The manifest explicitly whitelists 'unsafe-eval' in the extension's Content Security Policy, allowing dynamic code evaluation via eval(), Function(), and similar constructs. This is prohibited by Chrome's default exte…	1.3.1
4	Privilege Escalation	high	bg.js (line 517)	This helper walks arbitrary property paths off `top` and invokes them with JSON-supplied arguments. Combined with the remote fetch above, it gives a server-controlled response a way to trigger functions inside the ext…	1.3.2
5	Tracking	high	bg.js (line 1)	The background page initializes Google Analytics (UA-201268224-1) and dynamically injects the external analytics.js script from google-analytics.com. It sets 'checkProtocolTask' to null to bypass GA's protocol validat…	1.3.1
6	Unauthorized Data Collection	high	bg.js (line 1)	On every install or update event, the extension queues the install reason (e.g. 'install', 'update') and then calls processQueue() once storage is ready. This feeds the btoa-encoding logic in processQueue with the ins…	1.3.1
7	Unauthorized Data Collection	high	bg.js (line 1)	The background script calls captureVisibleTab() with null tab and null options, meaning it captures a full screenshot of the currently active tab regardless of origin. Combined with the broad '<all_urls>' host permiss…	1.3.1
8	Tracking	medium	bg.js (line 28)	The extension loads Google Analytics from a remote domain at runtime inside its persistent background page and sends telemetry events. External script loading in an MV2 background page is a tracking concern on its own…	1.3.2

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www.w3.org	/1999/xhtml	http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml
www.google-analytics.com	/analytics.js	https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js
www.w3.org	/2000/svg	http://www.w3.org/2000/svg
www.w3.org	/1999/xlink	http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink
www.bohemiancoding.com	/sketch	http://www.bohemiancoding.com/sketch
clients2.google.com	/service/update2/crx	https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx
www.google-analytics.com;	-	https://www.google-analytics.com;

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4.6 out of 5 · 10 most recent reviews

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it does not work

A first Wootan·12 Nov 2021

I loved it when I was a kid and i still love it

Aaliyah Pickett·10 Nov 2021

Much more productive and easier now

АП

Андрій Пурвін·30 Oct 2021

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