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CrushArcade Ads

Posted: May 22, 2015

Threat Metric

Ranking: 2,711
Threat Level: 1/10
Infected PCs: 8,867
First Seen: March 19, 2015
Last Seen: October 17, 2023
OS(es) Affected: Windows

CrushArcade is classified as an adware-laced platform that offers a variety of Flash games. Often, users may accidentally install CrushArcade as it is bundled with other free applications or download it themselves from the official website at crusharcade.com. Regardless of the means of distribution, CrushArcade is known to promote intrusive commercial advertisements that might cause your browser to behave differently, alter its settings and make it slower. CrushArcade not only affects your web browsers, but also affect your entire system as well and cause it to decrease performance significantly. Your computer may become rather sluggish due to the excessive amounts of advertisements that are displayed by CrushArcade, as they consume plenty of CPU. It is not advised to keep CrushArcade installed on your computer, use a powerful anti-malware tool instead to remove the infection.

Technical Details

File System Modifications

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The following files were created in the system:



\??\C:\WINDOWS\system32\Drivers\CatWSw864.sys File name: CatWSw864.sys
Size: 42.39 KB (42392 bytes)
MD5: 467035ae95408cd5b2a0ee2a8eb1e7c5
Detection count: 2,277
File type: System file
Mime Type: unknown/sys
Path: \??\C:\WINDOWS\system32\Drivers
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: August 4, 2018

Registry Modifications

The following newly produced Registry Values are:

HKEY..\..\..\..{RegistryKeys}Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Approved Extensions\{08A07CDB-75BF-4D21-8755-2D196B69DFB6}Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Approved Extensions\{410F2BF7-DF68-4A7C-9485-C6836BADDDCE}Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Low Rights\ElevationPolicy\{EF99CC33-CE7F-4785-937C-E986AEA07E3E}Software\MOZILLA\FIREFOX\EXTENSIONS\{d817c7c7-d36c-470a-8e7a-2e38b673d5d3}SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\Browser Helper Objects\{410F2BF7-DF68-4A7C-9485-C6836BADDDCE}HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\[APPLICATION]\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall..{Uninstaller}CrushArcade

Additional Information

The following directories were created:
%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\CrushArcade%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\CrushArcade%LOCALAPPDATA%\CrushArcade%PROGRAMFILES%\CrushArcade%PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\CrushArcade
The following URL's were detected:
CrushArcade
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