App Bud
Posted: July 28, 2014
Threat Metric
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Volume Count: Similar to the detection count, the Volume Count is specifically based on the number of confirmed and suspected threats infecting systems on a daily basis. High volume counts usually represent a popular threat but may or may not have infected a large number of systems. High detection count threats could lay dormant and have a low volume count. Criteria for Volume Count is relative to a daily detection count.
Trend Path: The Trend Path, utilizing an up arrow, down arrow or equal symbol, represents the level of recent movement of a particular threat. Up arrows represent an increase, down arrows represent a decline and the equal symbol represent no change to a threat's recent movement.
% Impact (Last 7 Days): This demonstrates a 7-day period change in the frequency of a malware threat infecting PCs. The percentage impact correlates directly to the current Trend Path to determine a rise or decline in the percentage.
Ranking: | 14,810 |
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Threat Level: | 2/10 |
Infected PCs: | 2,829 |
First Seen: | July 28, 2014 |
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Last Seen: | September 18, 2023 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
App Bud is an adware application that may load several advertisements usually generated from a third party ad network. The random App Bud ads may be ones that come in the form of a pop-up or banner. In either case, use of the App Bud ads may redirect your web browser to other sites where it could have pages that attempt to aggressively offer other services or products through the internet. App Bud ads may reduce the performance of your web browser in some cases limiting your usage of media intensive pages. Stopping the App Bud ads from rendering on your screen, mostly when surfing the internet, make require finding and removing each component or plugin related to App Bud within your system. Automatically removing App Bud from your system may be done through the use of an antimalware application.
Technical Details
File System Modifications
Tutorials: If you wish to learn how to remove malware components manually, you can read the tutorials on how to find malware, kill unwanted processes, remove malicious DLLs and delete other harmful files. Always be sure to back up your PC before making any changes.
The following files were created in the system:%PROGRAMFILES%\App Bud\bin\AppBud.BrowserAdapter.exe
File name: AppBud.BrowserAdapter.exeSize: 96.53 KB (96536 bytes)
MD5: 1f5aad06d157b1c4d7cb4e2169df1d27
Detection count: 152
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: %PROGRAMFILES%\App Bud\bin
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: July 28, 2014
%PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\App Bud\bin\AppBud.PurBrowse64.exe
File name: AppBud.PurBrowse64.exeSize: 287 KB (287000 bytes)
MD5: 13b9da6a58402225fe101b108b3117c1
Detection count: 52
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: %PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\App Bud\bin
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: July 28, 2014
%PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\App Bud\bin\AppBud.PurBrowse64.exe
File name: AppBud.PurBrowse64.exeSize: 287 KB (287000 bytes)
MD5: 136ef35fd6272f696842b03a0d31ddc7
Detection count: 23
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: %PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\App Bud\bin
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: July 28, 2014
%TEMP%\App Bud\AppBud_Setup.exe
File name: AppBud_Setup.exeSize: 2.13 MB (2130488 bytes)
MD5: 3d3ae58db54323973cbd62fcc7460baf
Detection count: 7
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: %TEMP%\App Bud
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: August 17, 2022
%PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\App Bud\AppBud.FirstRun.exe
File name: AppBud.FirstRun.exeSize: 1.12 MB (1123608 bytes)
MD5: e055789a9e3c940dbabbdac9a81dbcfb
Detection count: 1
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: %PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\App Bud
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: July 28, 2014
Registry Modifications
HKEY..\..\..\..{RegistryKeys}SOFTWARE\App BudSoftware\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Approved Extensions\{F1DE8EC2-8502-46F5-83B6-23784216D364}SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Tracing\AppBud_RASAPI32SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Tracing\AppBud_RASMANCSSOFTWARE\Microsoft\Tracing\updateAppBud_RASAPI32SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Tracing\updateAppBud_RASMANCSSOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\App BudSOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Tracing\AppBud_RASAPI32SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Tracing\AppBud_RASMANCSSOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Tracing\updateAppBud_RASAPI32SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Tracing\updateAppBud_RASMANCSSYSTEM\ControlSet001\services\eventlog\Application\Update App BudSYSTEM\ControlSet001\services\Update App BudSYSTEM\ControlSet002\services\eventlog\Application\Update App BudSYSTEM\ControlSet002\services\Update App BudSYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\eventlog\Application\Update App BudSYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\Update App BudHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\[APPLICATION]\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall..{Uninstaller}App Bud
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