Brown Bark
Posted: September 22, 2014
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Threat Level: The threat level scale goes from 1 to 10 where 10 is the highest level of severity and 1 is the lowest level of severity. Each specific level is relative to the threat's consistent assessed behaviors collected from SpyHunter's risk assessment model.
Detection Count: The collective number of confirmed and suspected cases of a particular malware threat. The detection count is calculated from infected PCs retrieved from diagnostic and scan log reports generated by SpyHunter.
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: | 17,090 |
|---|---|
| Threat Level: | 2/10 |
| Infected PCs: | 564 |
| First Seen: | September 22, 2014 |
|---|---|
| Last Seen: | July 18, 2023 |
| OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
Brown Bark is an adware program that could be loaded up on a computer due to installing random freeware programs or bundled software. When this takes place, Brown Bark may then cause random ads to be loaded as pop-ups or banners that attempt to offer various products and services over the internet. Use of the Brown Bark ads may cause redirects to other sites and pages that have content proving to be unwanted by many computer users. In the tasks of stopping Brown Bark ads from displaying it may be necessary to utilize an updated and trusted antispyware tool to seek out all related components of Brown Bark and remove them.
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(x86)%\brown bark\bin\brownbark.PurBrowse64.exe
File name: brownbark.PurBrowse64.exeSize: 349.93 KB (349936 bytes)
MD5: 3b70c5cce47bc4a835b31147c47a2672
Detection count: 71
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: %PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\brown bark\bin
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: September 22, 2014
%PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\brown bark\updatebrownbark.exe
File name: updatebrownbark.exeSize: 325.36 KB (325360 bytes)
MD5: e5a5ca09f3f6d05fbc7244b29acf8380
Detection count: 66
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: %PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\brown bark
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: September 22, 2014
%PROGRAMFILES%\brown bark\bin\brownbark.BrowserAdapter.exe
File name: brownbark.BrowserAdapter.exeSize: 98.54 KB (98544 bytes)
MD5: a082ec304348f1515ad7b4f56e8b81b5
Detection count: 6
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: %PROGRAMFILES%\brown bark\bin
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: September 22, 2014
%PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\brown bark\bin\brownbark.BrowserAdapter.exe
File name: brownbark.BrowserAdapter.exeSize: 98.54 KB (98544 bytes)
MD5: ea5810d177e3375db4aaf92241ae8977
Detection count: 5
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: %PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\brown bark\bin
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: September 22, 2014
%PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\brown bark\bin\brownbark.BrowserAdapter.exe
File name: brownbark.BrowserAdapter.exeSize: 98.54 KB (98544 bytes)
MD5: d44981decf40458e53419d77a1eae6fd
Detection count: 5
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: %PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\brown bark\bin
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: September 23, 2014
%PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\brown bark\bin\brownbark.PurBrowse64.exe
File name: brownbark.PurBrowse64.exeSize: 349.93 KB (349936 bytes)
MD5: 8f446ed72076f477d965000733cca478
Detection count: 1
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: %PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\brown bark\bin
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: September 23, 2014
Registry Modifications
The following newly produced Registry Values are:
HKEY..\..\..\..{RegistryKeys}SOFTWARE\brown barkSoftware\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Approved Extensions\{5A47331D-9B3C-4E40-9058-BBCB805F2564}SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Tracing\brownbark_RASAPI32SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Tracing\brownbark_RASMANCSSOFTWARE\Microsoft\Tracing\updatebrownbark_RASAPI32SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Tracing\updatebrownbark_RASMANCSSOFTWARE\Microsoft\Tracing\utilbrownbark_RASAPI32SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Tracing\utilbrownbark_RASMANCSSOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\brown barkSOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Tracing\brownbark_RASAPI32SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Tracing\brownbark_RASMANCSSOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Tracing\updatebrownbark_RASMANCSSOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Tracing\utilbrownbark_RASAPI32SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Tracing\utilbrownbark_RASMANCSSOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\Browser Helper Objects\{5a47331d-9b3c-4e40-9058-bbcb805f2564}SYSTEM\ControlSet001\services\eventlog\Application\Update brown barkSYSTEM\ControlSet001\services\eventlog\Application\Util brown barkSYSTEM\ControlSet002\services\eventlog\Application\Update brown barkSYSTEM\ControlSet002\services\eventlog\Application\Util brown barkSYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\eventlog\Application\Update brown barkSYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\eventlog\Application\Util brown barkHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\[APPLICATION]\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall..{Uninstaller}brown bark
HKEY..\..\..\..{RegistryKeys}SOFTWARE\brown barkSoftware\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Approved Extensions\{5A47331D-9B3C-4E40-9058-BBCB805F2564}SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Tracing\brownbark_RASAPI32SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Tracing\brownbark_RASMANCSSOFTWARE\Microsoft\Tracing\updatebrownbark_RASAPI32SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Tracing\updatebrownbark_RASMANCSSOFTWARE\Microsoft\Tracing\utilbrownbark_RASAPI32SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Tracing\utilbrownbark_RASMANCSSOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\brown barkSOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Tracing\brownbark_RASAPI32SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Tracing\brownbark_RASMANCSSOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Tracing\updatebrownbark_RASMANCSSOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Tracing\utilbrownbark_RASAPI32SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Tracing\utilbrownbark_RASMANCSSOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\Browser Helper Objects\{5a47331d-9b3c-4e40-9058-bbcb805f2564}SYSTEM\ControlSet001\services\eventlog\Application\Update brown barkSYSTEM\ControlSet001\services\eventlog\Application\Util brown barkSYSTEM\ControlSet002\services\eventlog\Application\Update brown barkSYSTEM\ControlSet002\services\eventlog\Application\Util brown barkSYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\eventlog\Application\Update brown barkSYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\eventlog\Application\Util brown barkHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\[APPLICATION]\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall..{Uninstaller}brown bark
Additional Information
The following directories were created:
%PROGRAMFILES%\brown bark%PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\brown bark%TEMP%\brown bark
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