RadSteroids

Posted: March 6, 2014

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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.

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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:	1/10
Infected PCs:	4,047

First Seen:	March 7, 2014
Last Seen:	August 22, 2023
OS(es) Affected:	Windows

Radsteroids is adware that conceals its advertising content behind premises of providing games for modifying the appearance of unrelated Web pages. Although Radsteroids is not entirely fraudulent, malware experts see sufficient reason to categorize Radsteroids as a PUP, and like other programs in this category, you should remove Radsteroids in any circumstance where Radsteroids interferes with your Web-browsing activities. Repetitive contact with the Radsteroids advertisement content may cause your PC to be exposed to threats, including disguised phishing attacks and other hoaxes that may distribute on advertisement networks with poor security.

What's not so Rad About Radsteroids Advertisements

Radsteroids is promoted and distributed at its website, radsteroids.com, but malware researchers also found Radsteroids to have a history of distribution by other, less than consensual methods, such as bundles with other applications and mislabeled download links. While a small number of PC security companies have categorized Radsteroids's site as unsafe, Radsteroids is not a threat; rather, Radsteroids is an advertising software. Radsteroids claims to provide features for allowing you to rearrange, deform and 'blow up' Web page content via an enhanced graphical layer, but may neglect to mention that these same functions also are used to load advertisements.

Radsteroids advertisements load automatically and may harm your ability to access some Web page content or browse the Web with minimal stuttering or other performance issues. More meaningfully than that, malware experts also connect adware like Radsteroids to frequent security hazards, which may include, at the extremes, exposure to threatening software (often via fake Flash updates and other, disguised attacks). Like other adware, Radsteroids also may ignore any normal advertisement-blocker programs installed to your browser, along with ignoring any browser settings that would block its content.

A Non-Radical Solution to a Radsteroids Problem

Radsteroids claims to be all fun and games, but has functions that are both detrimental to your PC's safety and are of limited benefit, even when ignoring the former fact. As a final warning, Radsteroids also historically fails to uninstall itself via normal software procedures, which forces malware analysts to encourage alternative methods for solving Radsteroids advertisements. Most browsers are affected by Radsteroids, including Chrome, IE and the somewhat lesser-targeted Firefox.

Programs specializing in the removal of Potentially Unwanted Programs, including adware and browser hijackers, should be able to identify and uninstall Radsteroids completely. Since Radsteroids advertisements may cause other, equally unhelpful programs to be installed (especially search engine hijackers and various toolbars), scanning your PC as soon as practical after noticing Radsteroids can help a minor collision with adware into exploding into a multiple-threat scenario. On a final note, although Radsteroids labels are downloaded with a Norton Security emblem, Radsteroids is not affiliated with nor endorsed by that PC security company.

Technical Details

File System Modifications

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The following files were created in the system:

%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Radsteroids\up\2.6.80\Radsteroids.exe

File name: Radsteroids.exe
Size: 28.74 KB (28745 bytes)
MD5: 4e9e63661f98a85250cb0b32fb887bec
Detection count: 51
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Radsteroids\up\2.6.80
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: March 26, 2016

setup.exe

File name: setup.exe
Size: 3.99 MB (3998080 bytes)
MD5: 7f6a8b55e29bae5cdaa28aef31743150
Detection count: 47
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: March 7, 2014

C:\ProgramData\Radsteroids\RadsteroidsService.exe

File name: RadsteroidsService.exe
Size: 65.91 KB (65912 bytes)
MD5: bf0cd43b0bdbc93a1933f59b92333759
Detection count: 5
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: C:\ProgramData\Radsteroids\RadsteroidsService.exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: December 17, 2021

More files

Registry Modifications

The following newly produced Registry Values are:

HKEY..\..\..\..{RegistryKeys}SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Tracing\Radsteroids_RASAPI32SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Tracing\Radsteroids_RASMANCSSOFTWARE\Microsoft\Tracing\RadsteroidsService_RASAPI32SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Tracing\RadsteroidsService_RASMANCSSoftware\Mozilla\Firefox\Extensions\support@radsteroids.comSOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Tracing\Radsteroids_RASAPI32SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Tracing\Radsteroids_RASMANCSSOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Tracing\RadsteroidsService_RASAPI32SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Tracing\RadsteroidsService_RASMANCSSYSTEM\ControlSet001\services\RadsteroidsSYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\RadsteroidsHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\[APPLICATION]\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall..{Uninstaller}Radsteroids

Additional Information

The following directories were created:

%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Radsteroids