Deal Boat
Posted: March 27, 2013
Threat Metric
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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: | 11,572 |
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Threat Level: | 2/10 |
Infected PCs: | 1,391 |
First Seen: | March 27, 2013 |
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Last Seen: | August 26, 2023 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
Deal Boat is a potentially unwanted program produced by 215 apps for Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome that is typically added when computer users install other free software. Deal Boat will display advertisements, coupons and sponsored links via a pop-up box on Amazon, Walmart, Ebay and other shopping websites that Internet users are visiting. These pop-up advertisements will be illustrated as boxes, which contain numerous coupons that are available or as underlined keywords, which when clicked will show a pop-up advertisement that claims it is sent to the affected web user by Deal Boat. When web users install free software products, they will also install Deal Boat. Once installed, Deal Boat will show a box, which contains related keyword suggestions, ads and sponsored links, in the right top part of the hacked web browser, whenever the PC user will browse Facebook, Expedia, Best Buy or any other similar websites.
Technical Details
Registry Modifications
CLSID{11111111-1111-1111-1111-110111271147}{22222222-2222-2222-2222-220122272247}{44444444-4444-4444-4444-440144274447}{55555555-5555-5555-5555-550155275547}{66666666-6666-6666-6666-660166276647}HKEY..\..\..\..{RegistryKeys}Software\AppDataLow\Software\Deal BoatSOFTWARE\Classes\CrossriderApp0012747.BHOSOFTWARE\Classes\CrossriderApp0012747.BHO.1SOFTWARE\Classes\CrossriderApp0012747.SandboxSOFTWARE\Classes\CrossriderApp0012747.Sandbox.1Software\Cr_Installer\12747SOFTWARE\Deal BoatSoftware\InstalledBrowserExtensions\215 Apps\12747SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Schedule\TaskCache\Tree\Updater12747.exeSOFTWARE\Proxy\Installations\Deal BoatSOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Deal BoatSOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Tracing\Deal Boat_RASAPI32SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Proxy\Installations\Deal BoatHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\[APPLICATION]\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall..{Uninstaller}Deal Boat
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