Is File Centipede safe?
File Centipede packages page URLs, cookies, referrers, headers, and stream keys for downloads sent to its local service.
Its broad content script runs on HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and file pages at document_start, detects media requests, and can read page cookies, referrers, headers, user agent, and stream keys. When a download is handed off, the background worker sends that FileCXX task to http://localhost:10111/request.
Who publishes itnamelessitguy2022 - no other listings under this identity, 3 shared hostnames
namelessitguy2022 - no other listings under this identity, 3 shared hostnames
What this publisher told the store about itself, and the other listings that told it the same thing.
Shared hosts - 3 hostnames
Hostnames hardcoded in this extension that few other listings call. That can mean one operator behind both, and it can equally mean a small shared vendor, so it is context rather than a conclusion. Hosts that many listings call are left out: they are services, not connections.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 2.99.6. Asking for a permission is not a finding on its own - it is what the extension can do if it chooses to.
Read and change your data on every site you visit
<all_urls> and 2 more
Read and change your data on every secure site you visit
https://*/*
See the address and title of every tab you have open
tabs
Act on the current tab, but only after you click the extension
activeTab
Read and change cookies, including the ones that keep you signed in
cookies
Add items to the right-click menu
contextMenus
Watch every request your browser makes
webRequest
See every page you navigate to, as you navigate to it
webNavigation
Store data in your browser
storage
Start, monitor and manage your downloads
downloads
Run its own code inside the pages you visit
scripting
Block and redirect the requests your browser makes
declarativeNetRequest
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed File Centipede contacting. Sending data somewhere is not a finding on its own - an extension that syncs your settings has to talk to its own server - but it is where your data can go, and who else it goes to.
- localhost:10111
File Centipede sends data to localhost:10111. Named as a recipient by 1 other extensions we have analysed.