Adware:Win32/HitLink
Posted: November 21, 2012
Threat Metric
The following fields listed on the Threat Meter containing a specific value, are explained in detail below:
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.
Threat Level: | 2/10 |
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Infected PCs: | 39 |
First Seen: | November 21, 2012 |
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OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
Adware:Win32/HitLink is an adware program that displays out of context advertisements. Adware:Win32/HitLink hijacks the targeted web browser and redirects PC users to suspicious advertisement websites. Once executed, Adware:Win32/HitLink drops potentially malicious files on the infected computer system. Adware:Win32/HitLink also modifies the Windows Registry. Adware:Win32/HitLink modifies the certain registry entry so that it can run automatically every time Windows is started. Adware:Win32/HitLink also makes modifications to the Windows Registry to create an option in the Programs and Features control panel menu that will uninstall the application. Adware:Win32/HitLink checks if the PC user visits any websites that include the certain strings in their URLs. Any text the computer user puts into the search box of the website is transferred to a server, via the certain URL. The server will then guide the hijacked web browser to display pop-up advertisements. Adware:Win32/HitLink strives to check for and install updated versions of itself by connecting to the certain server.
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%\hitlink\uninstall_hitlink.exe
File name: %ProgramFiles%\hitlink\uninstall_hitlink.exeFile type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file
%ProgramFiles%\hitlink\hitlink.exe
File name: %ProgramFiles%\hitlink\hitlink.exeFile type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file
Registry Modifications
HKEY..\..\{Value}HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\uninstall_hitlink.exe "DisplayName" = "Windows hitlink ad-System [hitlink]"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "hitlink.exe" = "%ProgramFiles%\hitlink\hitlink.exe"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\uninstall_hitlink.exe "UninstallString" = "%ProgramFiles%\hitlink\uninstall_hitlink.exe delete"HKEY..\..\..\..{Subkeys}HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\uninstall_hitlink.exeHKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\hitlink
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