PUP.FoodBuzz
Posted: October 1, 2013
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.
Detection Count: The collective number of confirmed and suspected cases of a particular malware threat. The detection count is calculated from infected PCs retrieved from diagnostic and scan log reports generated by SpyHunter.
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: | 13,344 |
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Threat Level: | 1/10 |
Infected PCs: | 712 |
First Seen: | October 1, 2013 |
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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
Tutorials: If you wish to learn how to remove malware components manually, you can read the tutorials on how to find malware, kill unwanted processes, remove malicious DLLs and delete other harmful files. Always be sure to back up your PC before making any changes.
The following files were created in the system:%PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\FoodBuzz\Update\FBMaintenance.exe
File name: FBMaintenance.exeSize: 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.msiSize: 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
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}
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