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Posted: August 20, 2015

Threat Metric

Ranking: 9,335
Threat Level: 1/10
Infected PCs: 4,181
First Seen: August 13, 2015
Last Seen: October 4, 2023
OS(es) Affected: Windows

MyAppsCloud by IronSource Ltd is an application that promises to save the efforts of its clients when some of the installed programs need to be updated. Although certain update notifiers may indeed be very useful, the security experts don't recommend relying on MyAppsCloud for the task. This tool behaves in a way that leaves the majority of people dissatisfied, and, therefore, the application is marked as Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP). In an Internet survey, over 80% of the respondents voted that they don't want to keep MyAppsCloud on their personal computers. The reason for this negative feedback is related to the commercial materials that follow the installation of the questionable application. The PUP inserts various pop-ups, banners and automatically started videos to all available browsers, including the famous Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer. The problem is that these ads are not like the usual ads that you see on some web pages. The commercial elements by MyAppsCloud are far more aggressive – they may appear on every site you load. The fact that they may seize a big part of the screen and cover essential page buttons is the least of your concerns. The loading of these pop-ups and banners may consume some of the available random-access memory (RAM), which may hamper the functionality of the browsers. The greatest risk of these ads is that they may expose you to cyber threats in case some of the affiliate pages are unsafe. The newly generated ads cannot be blocked until the PUP is on your PC, so you should consider deleting it with suitable security software.

Technical Details

File System Modifications

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The following files were created in the system:



%APPDATA%\AppCloudUpdater\UpdateProc\UpdateTask.exe File name: UpdateTask.exe
Size: 107.95 KB (107952 bytes)
MD5: f36fc655b22b46596620719b77b72bbb
Detection count: 342
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: %APPDATA%\AppCloudUpdater\UpdateProc
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: March 23, 2016
%APPDATA%\AppCloudUpdater\UpdateProc\UpdateTask.exe File name: UpdateTask.exe
Size: 107.95 KB (107952 bytes)
MD5: 7875c54d4b4b648a526f1d2343d71f8f
Detection count: 33
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: %APPDATA%\AppCloudUpdater\UpdateProc
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: March 23, 2016
%APPDATA%\AppCloudUpdater\UpdateProc\UpdateTask.exe File name: UpdateTask.exe
Size: 102.91 KB (102912 bytes)
MD5: 12a761ca6ea1106c8e332cdf687cc946
Detection count: 23
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: %APPDATA%\AppCloudUpdater\UpdateProc
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: March 23, 2016
C:\Program Files\myappscloud\myappscloud.exe File name: C:\Program Files\myappscloud\myappscloud.exe
MD5: aa1ca665a996e5d1bfec911ca0781cdb
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file
IrsoDLL.dll File name: IrsoDLL.dll
File type: Dynamic link library
Mime Type: unknown/dll
Group: Malware file

Registry Modifications

The following newly produced Registry Values are:

HKEY..\..\..\..{RegistryKeys}Software\AppCloudUpdaterSOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Schedule\CompatibilityAdapter\Signatures\AppCloudUpdater.jobSOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Schedule\CompatibilityAdapter\Signatures\AppCloudUpdater.job.fpSOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Schedule\CompatibilityAdapter\Signatures\MyAppsCloud.jobSOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Schedule\CompatibilityAdapter\Signatures\MyAppsCloud.job.fpSOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Schedule\TaskCache\Tree\AppCloudUpdaterSoftware\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\MyAppsCloudHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\[APPLICATION]\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall..{Uninstaller}AppCloudUpdater

Additional Information

The following directories were created:
%APPDATA%\AppCloudUpdater%PROGRAMFILES%\MyAppsCloud%PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\MyAppsCloud
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