Adware.ArcadeFrontier

Posted: April 11, 2014

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Ranking:	11,592
Threat Level:	2/10
Infected PCs:	64,909

First Seen:	April 11, 2014
Last Seen:	February 23, 2025
OS(es) Affected:	Windows

Arcadefrontier.com is an online gaming site that bundles adware with its products. As a site promoted by social networking spam, any interaction with Arcadefrontier.com is to be discouraged, and malware researchers personally wouldn't recommend installing Arcadefrontier.com's adware to partake of its gaming features. Like so many sites prior to it, Arcadefrontier.com offers free games that can be found just as easily on other sites, and there's no need to pause in removing Arcadefrontier.com adware to enjoy your Flash-based entertainment.

A New Frontier with Little to Offer

Arcadefrontier.com is a 'free' gaming website that comes at a hidden price for participation: subjecting yourself to new Web-browsing advertisements. Installing Arcade Frontier programs also will install this site's adware, which malware experts have categorized as a Potentially Unwanted Program taking in consideration its non-threatening but, also, non-beneficial features. Adware.ArcadeFrontier is known for causing the following issues, which are classical examples of PUP functions:

Installing itself to multiple browsers. Internet Explorer, Firefox and Chrome may be among the targeted browsers.
Launching advertisements through a broad range of formats that are both inclusive and invasive. These formats may consist of pop-ups, inline-text (or hyperlink-modified keywords) or additional Web page loading screens and banners. These advertisements are provided without any endorsements or guarantees of security by ArcadeFrontier.
Using cookies to collect non-confidential data about your Web-browsing behavior.

Since all of the gaming content found at Arcadefrontier.com also is available at other sites that don't force their users to install adware, there are no advantages to using Arcadefrontier.com – unless you prefer the advertisements for their own sake.

Conquering Arcadefrontier.com When It Has Overrun Your Browser

Adware.ArcadeFrontier may not be as toxic to your PC as a Trojan, but its automated advertising functions still may expose you to threats, fraudulent updates, phishing scams and other attacks that are best avoided. Arcadefrontier.com does have the potential for affecting more than a single Web browser with its software, and deleting Adware.ArcadeFrontier through the process of a general anti-malware scan is encouraged, if not mandated, by malware analysts. No other steps should be needed to uninstall Adware.ArcadeFrontier, unless third party PC threats, such as a Zlob Trojan, are interfering.

As long as mankind's appetite for gaming is endless, so, too, is the Internet's enthusiasm for gaming scams like Arcadefrontier.com. Any questions about the reputability of a particular gaming site should be handled with the combined opinions of PC security professionals and general research into that site's history. For example, Arcadefrontier.com, which is known for being promoted through Facebook spam, has a history that should not inspire any confidence in its games – or the advertisements that come with them.

Technical Details

File System Modifications

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The following files were created in the system:

C:\System Volume Information\_restore{9DAA8F4C-5813-4CDF-BCB1-9EBD25F4051D}\RP98\A0031381.exe

File name: A0031381.exe
Size: 140.46 KB (140464 bytes)
MD5: d29d37d425e6b98fc9b4a0708e290eb4
Detection count: 1,876
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: C:\System Volume Information\_restore{9DAA8F4C-5813-4CDF-BCB1-9EBD25F4051D}\RP98\A0031381.exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: June 29, 2021

%PROGRAMFILES%\ArcadeFrontier\arcfront.dll

File name: arcfront.dll
Size: 72.7 KB (72704 bytes)
MD5: a410ac684be86234e2439fb3e5562253
Detection count: 1,450
File type: Dynamic link library
Mime Type: unknown/dll
Path: %PROGRAMFILES%\ArcadeFrontier
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: June 4, 2021

%LOCALAPPDATA%\ArcadeFrontier\ArcadeFrontier_x64.dll

File name: ArcadeFrontier_x64.dll
Size: 223.74 KB (223744 bytes)
MD5: 79f57a4cc9506de93195dce5c36aee69
Detection count: 834
File type: Dynamic link library
Mime Type: unknown/dll
Path: %LOCALAPPDATA%\ArcadeFrontier
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: March 23, 2016

C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\ArcadeFrontier\veragent.exe

File name: veragent.exe
Size: 133.29 KB (133296 bytes)
MD5: f6ee212b9e5f6acb1cc86262db900f4d
Detection count: 644
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\ArcadeFrontier\veragent.exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: August 16, 2021

%LOCALAPPDATA%\ArcadeFrontier\ArcadeFrontier.dll

File name: ArcadeFrontier.dll
Size: 189.44 KB (189440 bytes)
MD5: 4696b9974e0a900579a18efdf76c63f4
Detection count: 162
File type: Dynamic link library
Mime Type: unknown/dll
Path: %LOCALAPPDATA%\ArcadeFrontier
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: March 23, 2016

More files

Registry Modifications

The following newly produced Registry Values are:

File name without patharcadefrontier[1].xmlhttp_b4.arcadefrontier.com_0.localstoragehttp_b4.arcadefrontier.com_0.localstorage-journalHKEY..\..\..\..{RegistryKeys}Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Approved Extensions\{A0A838EC-FAAC-4F46-B3BA-D998593DB00E}SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\LowRegistry\DOMStorage\arcadefrontier.comSoftware\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browser Helper Objects\{6C8DB2EC-499B-4897-A784-0E3186C97E9D}Software\Mozilla\Firefox\EXTENSIONS\addon@arcadefrontier.comSOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Google\CHROME\EXTENSIONS\hgkpceemnpedhhkieoijjljphmfkloldSoftware\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browser Helper Objects\{6C8DB2EC-499B-4897-A784-0E3186C97E9D}SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\Browser Helper Objects\{A0A838EC-FAAC-4F46-B3BA-D998593DB00E}HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\[APPLICATION]\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall..{Uninstaller}ArcadeFrontier

Additional Information

The following directories were created:

%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\ArcadeFrontier%LOCALAPPDATA%\ArcadeFrontier%PROGRAMFILES%\ArcadeFrontier%PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\ArcadeFrontier%UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\ArcadeFrontier