Home Possibly Unwanted Program PUP.FoodBuzz

PUP.FoodBuzz

Posted: October 1, 2013

Threat Metric

Ranking: 13,344
Threat Level: 1/10
Infected PCs: 712
First Seen: October 1, 2013
Last Seen: October 12, 2023
OS(es) Affected: Windows

FoodBuzz is adware that may display pop-up advertisements, offers, coupons, and sponsored links via a pop-up box on Amazon, Walmart, Ebay, and other shopping websites that PC users are visiting. These pop-up advertisements will be displayed as boxes, which contain a variety of coupons that are available or as underlined keywords, which when clicked will show a pop-up advertisement that declares it is sent to the computer user by FoodBuzz. FoodBuzz is an extension for Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome that may be usually inserted when the PCuser installs another free application such as video recording/streaming, download managers or PDF creators that might had bundled into their installation FoodBuzz. When the Internet user installs these free applications, they may also install FoodBuzz. When installed on the compromised PC, whenever the Internet user will browse Best Buy, Expedia, Facebook or any other similar websites, FoodBuzz may show a box in the right top part of the web browser, which contains relevant advertisements, keyword suggestions and sponsored links.

Technical Details

File System Modifications

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The following files were created in the system:



%PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\FoodBuzz\Update\FBMaintenance.exe File name: FBMaintenance.exe
Size: 260.87 KB (260872 bytes)
MD5: 9ffe1b466ff6b5364dfab4ba15ab7ffc
Detection count: 138
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: %PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\FoodBuzz\Update
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: October 27, 2018
FoodBuzzInstaller.msi File name: FoodBuzzInstaller.msi
Size: 1.28 MB (1283072 bytes)
MD5: 0555692fdb7d2e5fd37b28348e099a1f
Detection count: 47
File type: Windows Installer Package
Mime Type: unknown/msi
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: August 17, 2022

Registry Modifications

The following newly produced Registry Values are:

CLSID{103B5257-C7F6-3587-8BD5-1A08A5434E6F}{1C6E034D-B4B6-4D96-94B5-4163A5EB2195}{C6D9F6DC-1CB8-38DD-95D5-406C60E5B325}HKEY..\..\..\..{RegistryKeys}SOFTWARE\Classes\FoodBuzz.IEModuleSOFTWARE\Classes\FoodBuzz.IEModule+IECustomCommandsSOFTWARE\Classes\FoodBuzz.IEModule+IECustomContextMenuCommandsSoftware\FoodBuzzSOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Low Rights\ElevationPolicy\{1C6E034D-B4B6-4D96-94B5-4163A5EB2195}SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Tracing\FoodBuzzUpdate_RASAPI32SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Tracing\FoodBuzzUpdate_RASMANCSSOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Low Rights\ElevationPolicy\{1C6E034D-B4B6-4D96-94B5-4163A5EB2195}SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Tracing\FBMaintenance_RASAPI32SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Tracing\FBMaintenance_RASMANCSSOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Tracing\FoodBuzzUpdate_RASAPI32SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Tracing\FoodBuzzUpdate_RASMANCSHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\[APPLICATION]\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall..{Uninstaller}{184BB2B3-C271-485E-8718-757E0A59F84A}

Additional Information

The following directories were created:
%ProgramFiles%\FoodBuzz%ProgramFiles(x86)%\FoodBuzz
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