Fanhoosh
Posted: October 4, 2013
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: | 457 |
First Seen: | October 4, 2013 |
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Last Seen: | October 1, 2022 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
Fanhoosh is an adware that may display pop-up advertisements, coupons and sponsored links via a pop-up box on well-known online shopping websites that Internet users are visiting. Fanhoosh pop-up advertisements may be displayed as boxes, which carry 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 web by Fanhoosh. Fanhoosh is an extension for Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome that is usually embedded when web users install other free programs, such as video recording/streaming, download-managers or PDF creators, that might had packed into their installation Fanhoosh. When PC users install these free software products, they may also install Fanhoosh. When installed, whenever the computer user will visit any popular online shopping or social networking website, Fanhoosh may display a 'See Similar' button on product images, which when clicked may display pop-up ads by Fanhoosh. Fanhoosh may also show advertising banners on the websites that PC users are visiting, and as they browse the web, Fanhoosh may display coupons and other deals available on a number of websites.
Technical Details
Registry Modifications
CLSID{8ef0781e-bf1a-4c9d-8315-c1cc1f148add}{E5A81F98-0AE1-42E4-BC62-FD6F5AF535CC}HKEY..\..\..\..{RegistryKeys}Software\fanhooshSoftware\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Approved Extensions\{8EF0781E-BF1A-4C9D-8315-C1CC1F148ADD}SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Tracing\updatefanhoosh_RASAPI32SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Tracing\updatefanhoosh_RASMANCSSoftware\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Ext\Settings\{8EF0781E-BF1A-4C9D-8315-C1CC1F148ADD}Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Ext\Stats\{8EF0781E-BF1A-4C9D-8315-C1CC1F148ADD}SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\fanhooshSOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Tracing\updatefanhoosh_RASAPI32SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Tracing\updatefanhoosh_RASMANCSSOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\Browser Helper Objects\{8ef0781e-bf1a-4c9d-8315-c1cc1f148add}SYSTEM\ControlSet001\services\eventlog\Application\Update fanhooshSYSTEM\ControlSet001\services\Update fanhooshSYSTEM\ControlSet002\services\eventlog\Application\Update fanhooshSYSTEM\ControlSet002\services\Update fanhooshSYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\eventlog\Application\Update fanhooshSYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\Update fanhoosh
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