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BrowserAir

Posted: July 17, 2015

Threat Metric

Ranking: 7,306
Threat Level: 1/10
Infected PCs: 38,523
First Seen: July 16, 2015
Last Seen: October 16, 2023
OS(es) Affected: Windows

BrowserAir is one of those applications that offer numerous positive features, but end up getting deleted soon after the installation. This Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP) comes as a brand-new Chromium-based Internet client. It promises the users a very fast browsing speed, friendly design and a reliable protection of the private data. Although this functionality may seem appealing, the PUP comes with a range of other traits that are not explained adequately. You may notice that the webpages, accessed by BrowserAir, contain many more advertisements than usual. These sponsored materials are not hosted on the pages themselves but are instead created by the PUP. The suspicious browser tries to take advantage of its clients by exposing them to vast amounts of pop-ups, banners, in-text ads and interstitial ads. The philosophy behind this behavior is simple: with each redirection to the third-party affiliate sites, the developers of BrowserAir earn revenues. However, there is no guarantee whatsoever that the links will lead you to safe sites. There is a real risk that you may be redirected to phishing, fraudulent or frankly malicious pages, so you should stay away from the ads. In addition, the PUP may offer you some low-quality search engine that displays inaccurate results. Some users find it hard to remove BrowserAir manually. If you are not happy with the performance of this application, you should use a special security program to delete it.

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:



%SYSTEMDRIVE%\Users\<username>\appdata\local\brsrv\brsrv.exe File name: brsrv.exe
Size: 104.44 KB (104448 bytes)
MD5: 6a83a036a61215088ed5a7837a2c6a7d
Detection count: 3,040
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: %SYSTEMDRIVE%\Users\<username>\appdata\local\brsrv\brsrv.exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: October 9, 2022
C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\BrowserAir\47.0.0.4\brsrv.exe File name: brsrv.exe
Size: 104.44 KB (104448 bytes)
MD5: d2018d71da19c2ef52301cb3f56a3bc8
Detection count: 2,391
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\BrowserAir\47.0.0.4\brsrv.exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: August 13, 2023
C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\BrowserAir\47.0.0.5\is-0PHTV.tmp File name: is-0PHTV.tmp
Size: 342.01 KB (342016 bytes)
MD5: b96c1ae2ef0138fa50b6848b31665843
Detection count: 1,115
File type: Temporary File
Mime Type: unknown/tmp
Path: C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\BrowserAir\47.0.0.5\is-0PHTV.tmp
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: January 2, 2022
C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\BrowserAir\47.0.0.4\updater.exe File name: updater.exe
Size: 342.01 KB (342016 bytes)
MD5: 2fe58e3ca803edc838c49a2bc56c681b
Detection count: 829
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\BrowserAir\47.0.0.4\updater.exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: January 28, 2022
C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\BrowserAir\Application\BrowserAir.exe File name: BrowserAir.exe
Size: 730.11 KB (730112 bytes)
MD5: 6b5e8f677d452ced4714fc3616c0f0c5
Detection count: 752
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\BrowserAir\Application\BrowserAir.exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: October 2, 2023
C:\C\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\BrowserAir\44.5.0.2\updater.exe File name: updater.exe
Size: 342.01 KB (342016 bytes)
MD5: ab208ef8996f0c9a34a71582fa654f49
Detection count: 255
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: C:\C\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\BrowserAir\44.5.0.2\updater.exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: July 16, 2022
C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\BrowserAir\Application\BrowserAir.exe File name: BrowserAir.exe
Size: 730.11 KB (730112 bytes)
MD5: e00e8d4ae5d9754b37537f8462ccdbf8
Detection count: 194
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\BrowserAir\Application\BrowserAir.exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: December 20, 2021
C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\BrowserAir\Application\BrowserAir.exe File name: BrowserAir.exe
Size: 730.11 KB (730112 bytes)
MD5: 1d6cd9cfff5a4ac59e0254ddb7aadc84
Detection count: 176
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\BrowserAir\Application\BrowserAir.exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: August 13, 2023
%LOCALAPPDATA%\BrowserAir\47.0.0.3\updater.exe File name: updater.exe
Size: 342.01 KB (342016 bytes)
MD5: 10f29c48e02e4fa2ca2cce79f06f7a5d
Detection count: 117
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: %LOCALAPPDATA%\BrowserAir\47.0.0.3
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: June 26, 2019
C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\TECHP-BrowserAir\prtsvc.exe File name: prtsvc.exe
Size: 360.96 KB (360960 bytes)
MD5: 1734577abc3ddaccbaed6e65a854bb33
Detection count: 59
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\TECHP-BrowserAir\prtsvc.exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: July 10, 2021
%TEMP%\BrowserAirInst.exe File name: BrowserAirInst.exe
Size: 18 MB (18000000 bytes)
MD5: e3d54b8c62dc5e9a902b93673eeed4d2
Detection count: 56
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: %TEMP%
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: March 10, 2016
c:\Users\<username>\appdata\local\browserair\application\browserair.exe File name: browserair.exe
Size: 730.11 KB (730112 bytes)
MD5: 8f32ee41ec91a7c1ed4f9d9b44a9f6eb
Detection count: 30
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: c:\Users\<username>\appdata\local\browserair\application\browserair.exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: July 11, 2022
%LOCALAPPDATA%\BrowserAir\Application\BrowserAir.exe File name: BrowserAir.exe
Size: 757.76 KB (757760 bytes)
MD5: b2c26f7aada681f537776b5f9eab5530
Detection count: 30
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: %LOCALAPPDATA%\BrowserAir\Application
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: February 13, 2016
C:\WINDOWS\System32\drivers\sdfhgdf.sys File name: sdfhgdf.sys
Size: 23.72 KB (23720 bytes)
MD5: 5d8a755d139adb61242c0b33c2b9adfe
Detection count: 19
File type: System file
Mime Type: unknown/sys
Path: C:\WINDOWS\System32\drivers\sdfhgdf.sys
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: February 16, 2022
%LOCALAPPDATA%\brsrv\brsrv.exe File name: brsrv.exe
Size: 104.44 KB (104448 bytes)
MD5: d7c9b727bc0b6f2bd671b4b5c25e9a0b
Detection count: 19
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: %LOCALAPPDATA%\brsrv
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: May 5, 2020
%LOCALAPPDATA%\BrowserAir\Application\BrowserAir.exe File name: BrowserAir.exe
Size: 730.11 KB (730112 bytes)
MD5: 74bd53db06b095a6df543c7655c2da09
Detection count: 14
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: %LOCALAPPDATA%\BrowserAir\Application
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: March 17, 2020
%TEMP%\BrowserAir.exe File name: BrowserAir.exe
Size: 39.76 MB (39765874 bytes)
MD5: 1a49e31519f9f7abc24a8fa4f5243aee
Detection count: 14
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: %TEMP%
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: November 6, 2019
%LOCALAPPDATA%\BrowserAir\Application\BrowserAir.exe File name: BrowserAir.exe
Size: 730.11 KB (730112 bytes)
MD5: 26a0aafbd9c45141f3bb318df6e92f66
Detection count: 12
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: %LOCALAPPDATA%\BrowserAir\Application
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: September 22, 2020
%TEMP%\BrowserAirInst.exe File name: BrowserAirInst.exe
Size: 39.55 MB (39557295 bytes)
MD5: 06f7209c69a48a0a948505037e8aeb88
Detection count: 7
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: %TEMP%
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: April 10, 2020
%SystemDrive%\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\BrowserAir\Application\BrowserAir.exe File name: BrowserAir.exe
Size: 730.11 KB (730112 bytes)
MD5: 108d4100b24b11a24f7e051f05a09c02
Detection count: 5
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: %SystemDrive%\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\BrowserAir\Application
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: December 26, 2018
%LOCALAPPDATA%\BrowserAir\Application\BrowserAir.exe File name: BrowserAir.exe
Size: 730.11 KB (730112 bytes)
MD5: 51e6ec208771e62587bd4431e2401642
Detection count: 5
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: %LOCALAPPDATA%\BrowserAir\Application
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: November 19, 2021
%TEMP%\BrowserAirInst.exe File name: BrowserAirInst.exe
Size: 39.56 MB (39565183 bytes)
MD5: 9cd38ca4dbf16d847a5fe056f7d64365
Detection count: 5
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: %TEMP%
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: April 30, 2020

More files

Registry Modifications

The following newly produced Registry Values are:

File name without pathbraiegut_gutbl_setup.exeBrowserAir.lnkBrowserAirInst.exeRegexp file mask%WINDIR%\System32\drivers\sdfhgdf.sys%WINDIR%\System32\Tasks\BAUpd%WINDIR%\System32\Tasks\IBUpd2%WINDIR%\System32\Tasks\Installer_browserAirHKEY..\..\..\..{RegistryKeys}Software\__SP__browser_name__SP__Software\BrowserAirSOFTWARE\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\ShimInclusionList\BrowserAir.exeSOFTWARE\Microsoft\RADAR\HeapLeakDetection\DiagnosedApplications\BrowserAir.exeSOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Schedule\TaskCache\Tree\IBUpd2SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\BrowserAir.exeSOFTWARE\RegisteredApplications\BrowserAir.NSJA6BHDA3NCFCFMXW3QSCUYUQSOFTWARE\TECHPSOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\BrowserAirSOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\ShimInclusionList\BrowserAir.exeSOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\BrowserAir.exeSOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\RegisteredApplications\BrowserAir.NSJA6BHDA3NCFCFMXW3QSCUYUQSOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\TECHPSYSTEM\ControlSet001\Enum\Root\LEGACY_SDFHGDFSYSTEM\ControlSet001\services\sdfhgdfSYSTEM\ControlSet002\Enum\Root\LEGACY_SDFHGDFSYSTEM\ControlSet002\services\sdfhgdfSYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\Root\LEGACY_SDFHGDFSYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\sdfhgdfHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\[APPLICATION]\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall..{Uninstaller}BrowserAir{773203C3-05CD-4137-A55E-C0A2B168562B}_is1

Additional Information

The following directories were created:
%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\BrowserAir%LOCALAPPDATA%\BrowserAir%LOCALAPPDATA%\TECHP-BrowserAir%UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\BrowserAir
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