Searchmulty.com

Threat Scorecard

Ranking: 1,137
Threat Level: 50 % (Medium)
Infected Computers: 34,727
First Seen: September 5, 2018
Last Seen: October 16, 2023
OS(es) Affected: Windows

Searchmulty.com is a domain associated with the Search Multy software that you can find in free software bundles listed as an optional offer. The Search Multy software and Searchmulty.com do not list a publisher name except for 'Search Multy.' The Searchmulty.com domain hosts a custom Web directory that you can use for free, conduct searches on multiple search engines and load resources from popular sites. We noticed that Searchmulty.com has a valid certificate and uses SSL connections, but the certificate is issued to sni179117[.]cloudflaressl[.]com that is nonexistent at the time of writing.

It is possible that the owners of Searchmulty.com have used domain masking to show content from sni179117[.]cloudflaressl[.]com without alerting the user that they have loaded resources from sni179117[.]cloudflaressl[.]com while the URL bar shows Searchmulty.com. Domain masking is a legitimate technique used by many site owners, but the practice is very popular with phishing page creators trying to avoid browser phishing detection and alerts from AV companies. The landing page at Searchmulty.com is powered by a Yahoo engine, but you can run searches with Google, Bing, Ask and AOL if you want. Searchmulty.com may be shown as the default start and new tab page if you have installed the Search Multy software.

The Search Multy program may be listed in the 'Control Panel' as a search enhancement utility. The Search Multy application may be free to use, but you should pay attention to its Privacy Policy and Terms of Use available at hxxps://searchmulty[.]com/privacy_policy and hxxps://searchmulty[.]com/tos. You may want to know that the Search Multy uses Web beacons and cookies to keep track of the users who have installed the program. Also, Search Multy records what sites you visit, how much time you spend online, what advertisements you click on and what you post through Searchmulty.com. A short preview of the information sources used by Search Multy can be found at the bottom of hxxps://searchmulty[.]com/about/. The company behind it pulls information from online stores, social media, and search engines you use to create an advertising profile about you so that it can push targeted advertisements more accurately. Search Multy is classified as a Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP) that you may wish to remove with the help of an anti-spyware scanner completely.

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