Fanhoosh

By LoneStar in Adware

Threat Scorecard

Threat Level: 20 % (Normal)
Infected Computers: 195
First Seen: October 4, 2013
Last Seen: October 1, 2022
OS(es) Affected: Windows

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Fanhoosh is an adware that may show pop-up advertisements, sponsored links, deals, offers and coupons via a pop-up box on well-known online shopping websites that are visited by web users. Fanhoosh pop-up advertisements may be shown as boxes, which include a variety of coupons that are available or as underlined keywords, which, when clicked, may illustrate pop-up advertisements that declare to come to the PC user by Safe Saver. Fanhoosh is an add-on for Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome that is usually inserted when Internet users install other shareware and freeware products, such as download-managers, video recording/streaming or PDF creators, that might had packaged into their installation Fanhoosh. When Internet users install these freeware and shareware applications, they may also install Fanhoosh. While being installed, whenever the PC user will visit any well-known online shopping or social networking websites, Fanhoosh may show a 'See Similar' button on product pictures, which, when clicked, may deliver pop-up ads by Fanhoosh. Fanhoosh may also display advertising banners on the websites visited by computer users, and as they surf the Internet, Fanhoosh may show coupons and other deals available on various websites.

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Registry Details

Fanhoosh may create the following registry entry or registry entries:
CLSID
{8ef0781e-bf1a-4c9d-8315-c1cc1f148add}
{E5A81F98-0AE1-42E4-BC62-FD6F5AF535CC}
Software\fanhoosh
Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Approved Extensions\{8EF0781E-BF1A-4C9D-8315-C1CC1F148ADD}
SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Tracing\updatefanhoosh_RASAPI32
SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Tracing\updatefanhoosh_RASMANCS
Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Ext\Settings\{8EF0781E-BF1A-4C9D-8315-C1CC1F148ADD}
Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Ext\Stats\{8EF0781E-BF1A-4C9D-8315-C1CC1F148ADD}
SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\fanhoosh
SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Tracing\updatefanhoosh_RASAPI32
SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Tracing\updatefanhoosh_RASMANCS
SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\Browser Helper Objects\{8ef0781e-bf1a-4c9d-8315-c1cc1f148add}
SYSTEM\ControlSet001\services\eventlog\Application\Update fanhoosh
SYSTEM\ControlSet001\services\Update fanhoosh
SYSTEM\ControlSet002\services\eventlog\Application\Update fanhoosh
SYSTEM\ControlSet002\services\Update fanhoosh
SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\eventlog\Application\Update fanhoosh
SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\Update fanhoosh

Directories

Fanhoosh may create the following directory or directories:

%ProgramFiles%\fanhoosh
%ProgramFiles(x86)%\fanhoosh

URLs

Fanhoosh may call the following URLs:

fanhoosh

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