Color Darker Hijacker
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Ranking: | 13,375 |
Threat Level: | 50 % (Medium) |
Infected Computers: | 641 |
First Seen: | January 25, 2019 |
Last Seen: | July 29, 2023 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
Color Darker Hijacker is an intrusive app that has been spread via several deceptive websites. While being presented as a useful app that could benefit users, the truth is that the main purpose of the Color Darker Hijacker is to establish control over their web browsers. More specifically, the app acts as a browser hijacker that modifies certain browser settings in order to promote and generate artificial traffic towards a promoted page.
If Color Darker is allowed to be deployed on the computer system or device, it will execute its intrusive programming to cause redirects to the dubious search engine 'wwmnnl.com.' The exact behavior of the promoted search engine is depended on specific factors such as the user's IP address or geolocation. As a result, different users may experience different outcomes.
For some, wwmnnl.com may cause redirect chains that go through news-homepage.com before taking results from the legitimate search.yahoo.com engine. Other users, however, may receive low-quality or inaccurate results delivered by questionable search engines such as websearches.club or similar addresses.
In these cases, the results may also have unrelated sponsored ads or links to untrustworthy third-party websites injected into them. Another risk associated with the use of such dubious search engines is that they may be collecting various data about users browsing activities.