Luckysite123.com

Posted: December 20, 2016

Threat Metric

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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.

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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:	10,490
Threat Level:	5/10
Infected PCs:	4,403

First Seen:	December 20, 2016
Last Seen:	October 9, 2023
OS(es) Affected:	Windows

Luckysite123.com is a website that delivers results from other search engines, such as Google. While not a toxic domain necessarily, Luckysite123.com may endanger your PC by exposing you to insecure content. Malware experts recommend running appropriate anti-malware and anti-adware scans for uninstalling Luckysite123.com hijackers and other add-ons, which may have close associations with threatening software.

Getting 'Lucky' with Your Web Searches

The semi-passive income from online advertising traffic isn't negligible, even to con artists and software developers with limited prospects within the mainstream programming industry. One way this potential revenue source often sees abuse is through browser-hijacking products that take over the user's Web-browsing settings with no consent or misinformed consent. In the past few weeks, malware experts are seeing activity related to a new browser hijacker: one for Luckysite123.com.

Luckysite123.com hijackers are targeting unconfirmed brands of Web-browsing applications, but Windows users are affected disproportionately. These search engine hijackers may be bundling with other, higher-level threats than themselves; malware analysts can confirm their appearance alongside Bitcoin-mining Trojans and similar threatening software. By themselves, Luckysite123.com hijackers produce limited symptoms associated with redirecting your Web browser to the Luckysite123.com search site, most often through Google searches.

While one AV company to date categorizes Luckysite123.com as threatening, the evidence on harmful activity through Luckysite123.com is limited. However, the website does 'scrape' results from other sites with the addition of independent advertising content that could pose a threat to your PC's security.

Your Countdown to Results with Less Luckysite123.com in Them

Luckysite123.com may or may not redirect any individual Web surfer to potentially unsafe content, such as script-based threats like the RIG Exploit Kit. Whatever the intentions of its owners might be, malware experts continue classifying all browser-hijacking software as Potentially Unwanted Programs (PUPs), at a minimum, which anyone always should review for removal from their computers. Luckysite123.com hijackers aren't displaying standard UI or other components one might find with legitimate toolbars, add-ons, and extensions, which raises further concerns about their legitimacy.

Because of the above product's particularly close ties to different subtypes of Trojans and other, dedicated threats, removing a Luckysite123.com hijacker always should include system scans for detecting related security issues. Bitcoin-mining Trojans and similar threats can cause permanent hardware damage without showing symptoms like the browser hijacker installing along with them. Users should terminate all Web-browsing processes while performing the scan and, if necessary, remove cookies, and other, temporary data that could continue redirecting them to Luckysite123.com.

With Luckysite123.com as one of a larger group of questionable search sites vying for your attention, the methods it may use to get it aren't ideally safe for your computer necessarily. Enacting basic Web-surfing behavior can stop unwanted software from gaining access to your browser's settings, which is preferable to dealing with the symptoms after your searches become hijacked.

Technical Details

Registry Modifications

The following newly produced Registry Values are:

File name without pathhttp_www.luckysite123.com_0.localstoragehttp_www.luckysite123.com_0.localstorage-journal

Additional Information

The following URL's were detected:

luckysite123.com

MyLuckySite123.com