Vosteran.com

Threat Scorecard

Ranking: 2,576
Threat Level: 50 % (Medium)
Infected Computers: 73,980
First Seen: October 13, 2014
Last Seen: April 21, 2024
OS(es) Affected: Windows

Vosteran.com is a search engine and associated with browser hijacker. A browser hijacker may change your browser settings and replace your Web browser's home page with a website like Vosteran.com. This means that, no matter if you open Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer or other browser, what will appear on your screen will always be Vosteran.com as your home page. The browser hijacker that promises to provide superior search results is called Vosteran Search. The only goal Vosteran.com intends to achieve is to get your attention displaying its numerous advertisements. If it wasn't you who downloaded a browser hijacker on your machine, a browser hijacker may have come included on the installation of a freeware program downloaded from the Internet. The removal of a browser hijacker is a little more complicated than removing an adware. Therefore, it is recommended that the computer user borrows the expertize of a good anti-malware tool to help him to uninstall Vosteran.com entirely and for good.

Allowing the Vosteran.com site the constantly load on your system as the default home page may lead to other issues. As such, the Vosteran.com site may eventually load up random sponsored links or advertisements. If used, those ads or links could cause additional redirects to other annoying sites that could be designed to extort money or collect your page impressions and clicks for payment through an advertising campaign. The designers of Vosteran.com may have created the page for the purpose of earning money by CPC or CPM campaigns. Such campaigns rely on your clicks and site views for generating money for its publishers.

The Vosteran.com site may also load up on other web browsers as the default home page thus making it even more annoying for surfing the internet. In most given situations Vosteran.com and its assocaited plugins or add-on components may be removed easily. In the case that those components related to Vosteran.com cannot be found or removed, it may be necessary to use an antispyware applicaiton to automatically remove Vosteran.com and its files to stop the constant redirects and unwanted home page loads.

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File System Details

Vosteran.com may create the following file(s):
# File Name MD5 Detections
1. bkup.dat 1f032b23dadb1e50c84beef698d49713 55
2. UpdateTask.exe 81714713107c861bdecb16ff5e150763 55
3. UpdateTask.exe 1e6eca0bc6a58c9dac3dd93628228080 45
4. bkup.dat 9bb829d43653349012133f5c13479436 41
5. bkup.dat 606b76ec1bc1c07dc2225631df15c234 28
6. bkup.dat a109c316b7d28ce552cd4a79bc47fb68 28
7. UpdateTask.exe e2d3fb36651c0e44f1174da387fa52bf 22
8. bkup.dat 6224f3ab10246c76ee37bb2f6d64c8d4 21
9. bkup.dat 1db2c76685ab9be965a623ea52cf3d0d 19
10. bkup.dat 9d5e0f13243766e6d11d1a0a1460755a 18
11. bkup.dat b8e05d78a75eadf2cad33f5ae8675040 13
12. bkup.dat 318948ab544a9b45916c205c98093e9e 13
13. bkup.dat 2ee57463815b90bc8babdc57f4d3aa73 12
14. UpdateTask.exe 6695bc2a98d91d49386af14d52d0e9a2 11
15. UpdateTask.exe d489605d403867b778fe55728481029d 10
16. UpdateTask.exe 6311c9f5fdb5a5c300084f353b39ea77 9
17. UpdateTask.exe 2ca746ce57e7eb879c82ee25399496c2 8
18. UpdateTask.exe a8540eda05b58ac73e2ef6983f1a20cb 6
19. vosteran.exe 9b986c9f99a099605471b05e1fadf61f 4
20. vosteran.exe ae8f905d39ca149695accaca6864db25 3
21. vosteran.exe 123f683c6e79bc559f95e863a241a398 2
22. vosteran.exe f20f903560666166700da7726b8dcc98 2
23. vosteran.exe 4f570dc695159d5a895d78ed0b0174ee 1
24. vosteran.exe 90ff41413233cb0f101edfc5d42794cd 1
25. vosteran.exe b2914b18c9c179fff894e42544b64e8c 1
26. vosteran.exe 6253b94773983ec33085b19c111183ed 1
27. vosteran.exe 80326c7c52d474dfc2586f3d0287fc24 1
28. vosteran.exe dc5bc01095d32e9409fbd82c09721378 1
29. %Allusersprofile%\[Vosteran Search]
30. %Programfiles%\Vosteran Search
31. %LocalAppdata%\Vosteran Search\uninstall\Vosteran Search.lnk
32. %Allusersprofile%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\Vosteran Search.lnk
33. C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\WSE_Vosteran\UpdateProc\bkup.dat 9ada22373d38f902a574dfefd4bd2df9
34. C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\WSE_Vosteran\UpdateProc\config.dat 20c603a2ade796477d1836f0bfc642f4
35. C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\WSE_Vosteran\UpdateProc\info.dat 617e52ab0d60b06660b248d63c677be9
36. C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\WSE_Vosteran\UpdateProc\UpdateTask.exe 56989f64bf74bacbc7271dbfe8d368c8
37. C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\36iwse76.default\extensions\{a2bff6ba-8d18-488c-853c-ad9bc29f2482}\install.rdf
38. C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\36iwse76.default\extensions\{a2bff6ba-8d18-488c-853c-ad9bc29f2482}\icon64.png
39. C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\36iwse76.default\extensions\{a2bff6ba-8d18-488c-853c-ad9bc29f2482}\icon.png
40. C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\36iwse76.default\extensions\{a2bff6ba-8d18-488c-853c-ad9bc29f2482}\content\external\underscore-min.js
41. C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\36iwse76.default\extensions\{a2bff6ba-8d18-488c-853c-ad9bc29f2482}\content\external\string.min.js
42. C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\36iwse76.default\extensions\{a2bff6ba-8d18-488c-853c-ad9bc29f2482}\content\external\md5.js
43. C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\36iwse76.default\extensions\{a2bff6ba-8d18-488c-853c-ad9bc29f2482}\content\external\jsencrypt.min.js
44. C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\36iwse76.default\extensions\{a2bff6ba-8d18-488c-853c-ad9bc29f2482}\content\external\hmac-md5.js
45. C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\36iwse76.default\extensions\{a2bff6ba-8d18-488c-853c-ad9bc29f2482}\content\external\aes.js
46. C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\36iwse76.default\extensions\{a2bff6ba-8d18-488c-853c-ad9bc29f2482}\content\browser\vstr.1.0.2h.jsm
47. C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\36iwse76.default\extensions\{a2bff6ba-8d18-488c-853c-ad9bc29f2482}\content\browser\vstr.1.0.2.jsm
48. C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\36iwse76.default\extensions\{a2bff6ba-8d18-488c-853c-ad9bc29f2482}\content\browser\timer.jsm
49. C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\36iwse76.default\extensions\{a2bff6ba-8d18-488c-853c-ad9bc29f2482}\content\browser\header.js
50. C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\36iwse76.default\extensions\{a2bff6ba-8d18-488c-853c-ad9bc29f2482}\content\browser\browser.js
51. C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\36iwse76.default\extensions\{a2bff6ba-8d18-488c-853c-ad9bc29f2482}\content\browser\background.js
52. C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\36iwse76.default\extensions\{a2bff6ba-8d18-488c-853c-ad9bc29f2482}\chrome.manifest
53. C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\36iwse76.default\extensions\{a2bff6ba-8d18-488c-853c-ad9bc29f2482}\bootstrap.js
54. C:\Users\\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Extensions\oilkkkefbalmbfppgjmgjoefbclebkce\0.3.9_0\_metadata\verified_contents.json
55. C:\Users\\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Extensions\oilkkkefbalmbfppgjmgjoefbclebkce\0.3.9_0\_locales\
56. C:\Users\\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Extensions\oilkkkefbalmbfppgjmgjoefbclebkce\0.3.9_0\app\
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Registry Details

Vosteran.com may create the following registry entry or registry entries:
CLSID
{0A6B3C37-2EC3-508F-435B-7567673389FF}
{4CB3598A-82E8-4D1F-983F-061238AE696E}
File name without path
Vosteran.lnk
Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\DOMStorage\vosteran.com
Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchScopes\{9E20EB26-0B53-4159-9FC6-F2ACA85DF167}
SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\ShimInclusionList\vosteran.exe
SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Schedule\TaskCache\Tree\WSE_Vosteran
SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\vosteran.exe
Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce\WSE_Vosteran
SOFTWARE\RegisteredApplications\Vosteran.NSJA6BHDA3NCFCFMXW3QSCUYUQ
Software\Vosteran
Software\Vosteran Browser
SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\ShimInclusionList\vosteran.exe
SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\vosteran.exe
SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce\WSE_Vosteran
SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\RegisteredApplications\Vosteran.NSJA6BHDA3NCFCFMXW3QSCUYUQ
Software\wse_vosteran

Directories

Vosteran.com may create the following directory or directories:

%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Vosteran
%APPDATA%\Vosteran
%APPDATA%\WSE_Vosteran
%LOCALAPPDATA%\Vosteran
%PROGRAMFILES%\WSE_Vosteran
%PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\WSE_Vosteran
%UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Vosteran

URLs

Vosteran.com may call the following URLs:

http://vosteran.com/?
http://vosteran.com/?a=&q

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