FlowSpirit
Posted: April 27, 2017
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% 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: | 7,366 |
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Threat Level: | 1/10 |
Infected PCs: | 17,245 |
First Seen: | April 27, 2017 |
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Last Seen: | March 7, 2025 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
FlowSpirit (distributed as TrafficSpirit to English speakers) is a program that belongs to a Chinese software publisher that specializes in webmaster tools. Many anti-virus vendors categorize FlowSpirit as a Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP) because this software carries out some suspicious activities and its overall behavior might be rather weird. In addition to this, FlowSpirit's true purpose is also very shady since the software is meant to be used as a traffic bot that can increase the amount of traffic that a Web page receives significantly.
This PUP operates by asking users to enter the website that they want to generate traffic to. Once this is done, other clients who run the FlowSpirit software may start visiting the user's website automatically via hidden Web browser instances that may consume a significant amount of hardware and network resources. In the meantime, the user who has decided to use FlowSpirit to boost their website's traffic also may experience the same thing – their installation of FlowSpirit may launch hidden Web browser instances and browse the pages of other users silently. In short, FlowSpirit's purpose is meant to help webmasters exchange traffic between their websites, therefore making their pages seem more popular artificially.
Although FlowSpirit is promoted as a reliable application, users might want to think twice whether they'd like to run a program that connects to various websites silently without revealing their content. It is not known whether FlowSpirit's security measures are enough to keep corrupted links out of the system, and a seemingly friendly traffic exchange operation may end up being more unsafe than it looks. It is recommended to remove FlowSpirit with the assistance of a credible cyber security software suite.
Technical Details
File System Modifications
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The following files were created in the system:%WINDIR%\System32\drivers\flowflt64.sys
File name: flowflt64.sysSize: 985.12 KB (985128 bytes)
MD5: 061cf22b54d38fd1a9e305786550dd13
Detection count: 64
File type: System file
Mime Type: unknown/sys
Path: %WINDIR%\System32\drivers
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: May 5, 2017
%WINDIR%\system32\drivers\flowsys64.sys
File name: flowsys64.sysSize: 37.94 KB (37944 bytes)
MD5: d811175fca166769773338c111b3dd52
Detection count: 12
File type: System file
Mime Type: unknown/sys
Path: %WINDIR%\system32\drivers
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: May 13, 2020
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Registry Modifications
Regexp file mask%TEMP%\ipts_[NUMBERS].7z%USERPROFILE%\Desktop\ipts_[NUMBERS].7z%USERPROFILE%\Documents\ipts_[NUMBERS].7zHKEY..\..\..\..{RegistryKeys}SOFTWARE\JinglingSYSTEM\ControlSet001\services\flowfltSYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\flowflt
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