Taplika.com

By GoldSparrow in Browser Hijackers

Threat Scorecard

Ranking: 6,850
Threat Level: 50 % (Medium)
Infected Computers: 14,519
First Seen: July 31, 2014
Last Seen: February 18, 2025
OS(es) Affected: Windows

Taplika.com is a browser hijacker that acts as a generic search engine site for finding things on the internet. Use of the Taplika.com site will filter out search results through a customized yahoo search query. Many of the results listed through Taplika.com may be ones that are surrounded by several sponsored links or advertisements. Use of the ads or links on Taplika.com may redirect you to other sites where some could be completely unwanted. The creators of Taplika.com are believed to have developed the site for the purpose of making money by your clicks on various ads or sponsored links displayed on the home page or search query pages. In the case that Taplika.com acts as your default home page you may take the action of removing all of its related components or browser extensions to prevent this from taking place.

SpyHunter Detects & Remove Taplika.com

File System Details

Taplika.com may create the following file(s):
# File Name MD5 Detections
1. taplika.exe 268f1d8c3ed9b40bc52ca516c854d22a 512
2. UpdateTask.exe d114e92d1ab2475d6220d470f7875195 15
3. bkup.dat 846ac0d6b10bfe8ec8b088a09641c897 13
More files

Registry Details

Taplika.com may create the following registry entry or registry entries:
File name without path
http_taplika.com_0.localstorage
Taplika.lnk
Regexp file mask
%WinDir%\System32\Tasks\Taplika
%WinDir%\System32\Tasks\WSE_Taplika
%windir%\Tasks\Taplika.job
%windir%\Tasks\WSE_Taplika.job
SOFTWARE\Classes\.shtml\OpenWithProgids\TaplikaHTML.NSJA6BHDA3NCFCFMXW3QSCUYUQ
SOFTWARE\Classes\.webp\OpenWithProgids\TaplikaHTML.NSJA6BHDA3NCFCFMXW3QSCUYUQ
SOFTWARE\Classes\.xht\OpenWithProgIds\TaplikaHTML.NSJA6BHDA3NCFCFMXW3QSCUYUQ
SOFTWARE\Classes\.xhtml\OpenWithProgIds\TaplikaHTML.NSJA6BHDA3NCFCFMXW3QSCUYUQ
SOFTWARE\Classes\AppID\{BE26A525-DF20-4BBD-A602-5CE538ADA94E}
SOFTWARE\Classes\Wow6432Node\AppID\{BE26A525-DF20-4BBD-A602-5CE538ADA94E}
Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\DOMStorage\taplika.com
SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\ShimInclusionList\taplika.exe
SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Schedule\CompatibilityAdapter\Signatures\WSE_Taplika.job
SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Schedule\CompatibilityAdapter\Signatures\WSE_Taplika.job.fp
SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Schedule\TaskCache\Tree\Taplika
SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Schedule\TaskCache\Tree\WSE_Taplika
SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\taplika.exe
SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce\WSE_Taplika
SOFTWARE\RegisteredApplications\Taplika.NSJA6BHDA3NCFCFMXW3QSCUYUQ
Software\Taplika
Software\Taplika Browser
SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\ShimInclusionList\taplika.exe
SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\taplika.exe
SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce\Wse_taplika
SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\RegisteredApplications\Taplika.NSJA6BHDA3NCFCFMXW3QSCUYUQ
Software\wse_taplika

Directories

Taplika.com may create the following directory or directories:

%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Taplika
%AppData%\Taplika
%AppData%\WSE_Taplika
%LOCALAPPDATA%\Taplika
%PROGRAMFILES%\WSE_Taplika
%PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\WSE_Taplika
%UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Taplika

URLs

Taplika.com may call the following URLs:

Taplika.com
taplika.com

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