Threat Database Adware BrowseBurst

BrowseBurst

By GoldSparrow in Adware

Threat Scorecard

Threat Level: 20 % (Normal)
Infected Computers: 331
First Seen: April 18, 2014
Last Seen: May 3, 2023
OS(es) Affected: Windows

BrowseBurst is adware that may show discount coupons, deals, sales, offers, pop-up advertisements and sponsored links via a pop-up box on social networking and shopping related websites. The pop-up advertisements and banners of BrowseBurst may be shown as boxes, which may encompass a variety of discount coupons and offers, which, when clicked, may display random pop-up advertisements that may claim to supposedly come to the PC user from BrowseBurst. BrowseBurst may be created specifically to generate advertising revenue from clicks on commercial ads. BrowseBurst may boost web traffic, show pop-up ads and sponsored links within the Web browser, and unwillingly redirect computer users to questionable websites that were designed to possibly make money from raised website traffic. BrowseBurst may embed an unwanted browser extension, plug-in or add-on for the Web browsers such as Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome when the PC user installs numerous free software from the Internet that might had packaged into their installation BrowseBurst. When the PC user installs any free applications from unreliable download websites, he may also install BrowseBurst on the computer system.

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File System Details

BrowseBurst may create the following file(s):
# File Name MD5 Detections
1. FilterApp_C.exe fad29f4eb344afe5fedfe7fc98ce1d88 64
2. updater.exe c42f3b4387c1d837b58af1c1a27da061 40

Registry Details

BrowseBurst may create the following registry entry or registry entries:
CLSID
{3D517D92-D246-4139-ADC0-4F50EC1A6869}
{C999DC7E-ABA4-4FA0-89EE-AB700A630B6A}
{ca0f1f6d-f873-4e0c-922e-7fe72ac4ce4f}
SOFTWARE\BrowseBurst
Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Approved Extensions\{CA0F1F6D-F873-4E0C-922E-7FE72AC4CE4F}
Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Ext\Stats\{CA0F1F6D-F873-4E0C-922E-7FE72AC4CE4F}
SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\BrowseBurst
SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\Browser Helper Objects\{ca0f1f6d-f873-4e0c-922e-7fe72ac4ce4f}

Directories

BrowseBurst may create the following directory or directories:

%PROGRAMFILES%\BrowseBurst
%PROGRAMFILES(X86)%\BrowseBurst

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