Viralix Video

Posted: July 9, 2015

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Threat Level:	2/10
Infected PCs:	110

First Seen:	July 9, 2015
Last Seen:	February 20, 2022
OS(es) Affected:	Windows

Viralix Video is an unreliable, annoying and possibly harmful application, which can cause some highly negative modifications to your browsers. You may be encouraged to load this Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP) during the installation of different types of freeware. Although Viralix Video is advertised as a tool that will improve your video-watching experience with a set of upgrades, it achieves nothing of the promised. The facts that the developers of this product remain unknown, and it has no official site speak enough about its legitimacy. The first negative symptoms you may notice are related to the functionality of your browser, regardless if you use Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox or Internet Explorer. Viralix Video inserts plenty of ads in the form of pop-ups, banners, sponsored animations and targeted videos. They tend to be very persistent and may be seen on almost every page you visit. Your homepage and search engine may also be replaced without your explicit permission. Usually, the purpose of the marketing content is to redirect you to sponsored domains, some of which may try to sell you something. However, there are also confirmed cases when some of the pop-ups have encouraged the people to install highly questionable applications, which later turned out to contain malicious codes. The overall results of Viralix Video on your system will likely be adverse, so you should not keep this PUP on your PC.

Technical Details

File System Modifications

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The following files were created in the system:

C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\ViralixVideo\uninstall.exe

File name: C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\ViralixVideo\uninstall.exe
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file

C:\Users\<username>\appdata\local\viralixvideo\ViralixVideo.dll

File name: C:\Users\<username>\appdata\local\viralixvideo\ViralixVideo.dll
MD5: cdced2caaca78cc1ce842abca71b80c2
File type: Dynamic link library
Mime Type: unknown/dll
Group: Malware file

vrlxur.exe

File name: vrlxur.exe
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file

Registry Modifications

The following newly produced Registry Values are:

HKEY..\..\..\..{RegistryKeys}Software\AppDataLow\Software\viralixvideoSoftware\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Approved Extensions\{46E9DBAC-8D74-4B17-BA5A-BEB49F20EC98}Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Ext\Stats\{46E9DBAC-8D74-4B17-BA5A-BEB49F20EC98}

Additional Information

The following directories were created:

%LOCALAPPDATA%\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\cdnkbnlpcblgdhjibkegnkmecmeplafj