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BooZaka

Posted: April 7, 2014

Threat Metric

Ranking: 13,383
Threat Level: 2/10
Infected PCs: 630
First Seen: April 7, 2014
Last Seen: September 13, 2023
OS(es) Affected: Windows


BooZaka is known to be adware that may display random advertisements and messages or the ones based on the surfing routine of the PC user. The pop-up ads and messages of BooZaka may be shown in a new tab page on Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome Web browsers of the computer system, which may probably be infected with this adware or other potentially unwanted programs (PUPs). BooZaka's pop-up ads and banners may be shown regardless of the Web browser or search service, and if the computer user sees pop-up advertisements delivered by BooZaka whenever he is searching online in any well-known search provider or is visiting a questionable website or a legitimate website, which has been hijacked, then the computer system may be contaminated with adware or other security threats. BooZaka may embed an ad-supported Web browser extension, add-on or plug-in in Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome that may show messages, banners and pop-up advertisements on the computer system.

Technical Details

Registry Modifications

The following newly produced Registry Values are:

HKEY..\..\..\..{RegistryKeys}Software\BooZakaSoftware\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Approved Extensions\{5B72133F-AFA6-4C07-8016-46A6EA43ABBE}SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Tracing\updateBooZaka_RASAPI32SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Tracing\updateBooZaka_RASMANCSSOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\BooZakaSOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Tracing\updateBooZaka_RASAPI32SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Tracing\updateBooZaka_RASMANCSSYSTEM\ControlSet001\services\eventlog\Application\Update BooZakaSYSTEM\ControlSet001\services\Update BooZakaSYSTEM\ControlSet002\services\eventlog\Application\Update BooZakaSYSTEM\ControlSet002\services\Update BooZakaSYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\eventlog\Application\Update BooZakaSYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\Update BooZakaHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\[APPLICATION]\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall..{Uninstaller}BooZaka

Additional Information

The following directories were created:
%LOCALAPPDATA%\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\databases\chrome-extension_dhijhhindikeibkiijjpgeapjbdjejim_0%PROGRAMFILES%\BooZaka%PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\BooZaka%TEMP%\BooZaka
The following URL's were detected:
BooZaka
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