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Dragon Branch Ads

Posted: April 21, 2015

Threat Metric

Threat Level: 2/10
Infected PCs: 918
First Seen: April 20, 2015
Last Seen: May 16, 2023
OS(es) Affected: Windows

Dragon Branch is detected as a Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP). Customarily, PUPs such as Dragon Branch are distributed using a variety of questionable marketing methods. Users may acquire Dragon Branch via freeware downloads or by downloading it themselves. Either way, a PUP that exhibits adware capabilities such as Dragon Branch is not recommended to be kept on your computer. Typically, PUPs like Dragon Branch are known to pretend to offer useful features related to your online experience, but in reality, they are not as good as advertised. Dragon Branch starts collecting information related to your online activities in order to create user-relevant advertisements and thus lure users into clicking them. When clicked on, ads by Dragon Branch redirect you to third-party websites that might promote questionable content or that are unreliable.

Technical Details

Registry Modifications

The following newly produced Registry Values are:

CLSID{1423AA27-691B-4FD6-95D4-7625A60FDC49}{31EC9906-556D-40BF-B0BF-9182FC4F350C}{5a52eb49-32bc-41ae-ae43-614878f9fe7d}HKEY..\..\..\..{RegistryKeys}SOFTWARE\dragonbranchSOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\Browser Helper Objects\{5a52eb49-32bc-41ae-ae43-614878f9fe7d}SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\dragonbranchSOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\Browser Helper Objects\{5a52eb49-32bc-41ae-ae43-614878f9fe7d}SYSTEM\ControlSet001\services\Service Mgr dragonbranchSYSTEM\ControlSet001\services\Update Mgr dragonbranchSYSTEM\ControlSet002\services\Service Mgr dragonbranchSYSTEM\ControlSet002\services\Update Mgr dragonbranchSYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\Service Mgr dragonbranchSYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\Update Mgr dragonbranchHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\[APPLICATION]\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall..{Uninstaller}Dragon Branch

Additional Information

The following directories were created:
%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Application Data\b56dff5a-df23-4e43-acde-a4f08b8dcffb%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\b56dff5a-df23-4e43-acde-a4f08b8dcffb%COMMONPROGRAMFILES%\b56dff5a-df23-4e43-acde-a4f08b8dcffb%COMMONPROGRAMFILES(x86)%\b56dff5a-df23-4e43-acde-a4f08b8dcffb%PROGRAMFILES%\Dragon Branch%PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\Dragon Branch%temp%\Dragon Branch
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