Brass Search
Posted: April 1, 2014
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.
Ranking: | 17,038 |
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Threat Level: | 2/10 |
Infected PCs: | 651 |
First Seen: | April 1, 2014 |
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Last Seen: | August 27, 2023 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
Brass Search is adware that may be created to show a variety of irritating pop-up advertisements and messages on the PC while the computer user is surfing the Internet. Brass Search may embed itself into Web browsers such as Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. Once Brass Search is installed on the computer system, it may deliver random pop-up advertisements and messages or the ones pertaining to the PC user's online surfing routine while the PC user is surfing online shopping websites or any other websites. If the PC user clicks on these pop-up advertisements and messages, he may get forcibly rerouted to unknown websites that may be developed for advertising purposes. The main goal of Brass Search may be to generate advertising income from raised traffic of the suspicious website and ad clicks. Brass Search may insert itself into the PC packaged with other free applications as an additional program.
Technical Details
Registry Modifications
HKEY..\..\..\..{RegistryKeys}SOFTWARE\brass searchSoftware\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Approved Extensions\{461c9ca0-de4b-42d3-b2cc-4f0e89241b10}SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Tracing\updateBrassSearch_RASAPI32SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Tracing\updateBrassSearch_RASMANCSSOFTWARE\Microsoft\Tracing\utilBrassSearch_RASAPI32SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Tracing\utilBrassSearch_RASMANCSSOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\brass searchSOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Tracing\updateBrassSearch_RASAPI32SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Tracing\updateBrassSearch_RASMANCSSOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Tracing\utilBrassSearch_RASAPI32SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Tracing\utilBrassSearch_RASMANCSSYSTEM\ControlSet001\services\eventlog\Application\Update brass searchSYSTEM\ControlSet001\services\eventlog\Application\Util brass searchSYSTEM\ControlSet001\services\Update brass searchSYSTEM\ControlSet001\services\Util brass searchSYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\eventlog\Application\Update brass searchSYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\eventlog\Application\Util brass searchSYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\Update brass searchSYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\Util brass searchHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\[APPLICATION]\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall..{Uninstaller}brass search
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