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Adware.PriceBlink

Posted: April 24, 2013

Threat Metric

Ranking: 4,723
Threat Level: 2/10
Infected PCs: 20,655
First Seen: April 24, 2013
Last Seen: March 7, 2025
OS(es) Affected: Windows

Priceblink Virus is a potentially unwanted program, which is categorized as an adware application. Once Priceblink Virus gets inside the targeted PC, it drops an extension on all Internet browsers, involving Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. Additionally, Priceblink Virus starts its annoying activity, which is based on numerous pop-up advertisements, alerts and underlined words that redirect affected computer users to dubious websites. As its name suggests, Priceblink Virus promises to give information about coupons, promotions, price comparisons and similar things. Priceblink Virus takes over the hacked web browser and continuously interrupts the victimized web user's browsing sessions. Priceblink Virus can be installed via several methods. One of them includes the computer user's knowledge because it needs to install this application manually. Priceblink Virus can also install itself on the vulnerable computer system without the PC user's permission asked together with freeware and shareware programs. This method is based on other applications that have Priceblink Virus added to the list of components.

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%\PriceBlink\PriceBlink.dll File name: PriceBlink.dll
Size: 46.08 KB (46080 bytes)
MD5: 8b887eec83ea3a868bae320c72ec1c17
Detection count: 98
Mime Type: unknown/dll
Path: %PROGRAMFILES%\PriceBlink
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: April 24, 2013
%PROGRAMFILES%\PriceBlink\PriceBlinkUpdater.exe File name: PriceBlinkUpdater.exe
Size: 94.2 KB (94208 bytes)
MD5: ee3701bcc5e7e07323e3f76eff1a6aba
Detection count: 35
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: %PROGRAMFILES%\PriceBlink
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: April 24, 2013
PriceBlinkSetup_3_1.exe File name: PriceBlinkSetup_3_1.exe
Size: 2.9 MB (2906456 bytes)
MD5: beb62b6bd2f61cb8ead621d837fd736f
Detection count: 21
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: November 2, 2020

Registry Modifications

The following newly produced Registry Values are:

File name without pathhttp_onboarding.priceblink.com_0.localstoragehttp_onboarding.priceblink.com_0.localstorage-journalhttp_www.priceblink.com_0.localstoragehttp_www.priceblink.com_0.localstorage-journalHKEY..\..\..\..{RegistryKeys}SOFTWARE\Classes\PriceBlink.PluginSOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\New Windows\Allow\if.priceblink.comSOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\New Windows\Allow\tb.priceblink.comSOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\New Windows\Allow\www.priceblink.com

Additional Information

The following directories were created:
%PROGRAMFILES%\PriceBlink%PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\PriceBlink
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