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Adware-BonusPack

Type
Program
SubType
Adware
Discovery Date
06/28/2007
Length
Minimum DAT
5063 (06/28/2007)
Updated DAT
5222 (02/04/2008)
Minimum Engine
5.1.00
Description Added
06/28/2007
Description Modified
12/24/2007 12:30 AM (PT)
Risk Assessment
Corporate User
N/A
Home User
N/A

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Characteristics

McAfee(R) AVERT™ recognizes that this program may have legitimate uses in contexts where an authorized administrator has knowingly installed this application. If you agreed to a license agreement for this, or another bundled application, you may have legal obligations with regard to removing this software, or using the host application without this software. Please contact the software vendor for further information.
See http://vil.nai.com/vil/DATReadme.asp for a list of Program detections added to the DATs.
See http://vil.nai.com/vil/pups/configuration.htm for information about how to enable, disable, and exclude detection of legitimately installed programs.


Summary

This is not a virus or a Trojan. It is an adware application. It gets installed Browser Helper Object. A icon appears in the toolbar of Internet Explorer . All the links and pages it opens are in Korean language.

Privacy

No license agreement is displayed during installation, although one could be displayed by another installer if bundled with another application. No EULA or privacy policy related to the software could be found.

System Changes

File Name: “bp6.exe”
MD5Hash: “51ed669aca0e4478394df614abc5d306”

The following files are added:

  • %Program Files%\bonuspack\bonuspack.dll
  • %Program Files%\bonuspack\bpacks.exe
  • %Program Files%\bonuspack\bpack_atx.ini
  • %Program Files%\bonuspack\bpack_icon1.ico
  • %Program Files%\bonuspack\bpack_icon2.ico
  • %Program Files%\bonuspack\bpack_menu.ini
  • %Program Files%\bonuspack\bpack_micon.bmp
  • %Program Files%\bonuspack\bpconfig.ini
  • %Program Files%\bonuspack\exclist.qbl
  • %Program Files%\bonuspack\losslist.qbl
  • %Program Files%\bonuspack\rebag.dll
  • %Program Files%\bonuspack\uninst_bpack.exe
  • %Program Files%\bonuspack\urllist.qbl
  • %Program Files%\bonuspack\urllist2.qbl

The following registry entries are added:

  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\bonuspack
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\bpacks
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browser Helper Objects\{1AD3A632-7E9D-4458-9995-566505CE3609}
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\bonuspack.TInfoButton
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{1AD3A632-7E9D-4458-9995-566505CE3609}\InprocServer32

Symptoms

Method of Infection

Variants

Variants

    N/A

All Information

Overview -

Aliases

  • not-a-virus:AdWare.Win32.AdBar.a (Kaspersky)

Characteristics

Characteristics -

McAfee(R) AVERT™ recognizes that this program may have legitimate uses in contexts where an authorized administrator has knowingly installed this application. If you agreed to a license agreement for this, or another bundled application, you may have legal obligations with regard to removing this software, or using the host application without this software. Please contact the software vendor for further information.
See http://vil.nai.com/vil/DATReadme.asp for a list of Program detections added to the DATs.
See http://vil.nai.com/vil/pups/configuration.htm for information about how to enable, disable, and exclude detection of legitimately installed programs.


Summary

This is not a virus or a Trojan. It is an adware application. It gets installed Browser Helper Object. A icon appears in the toolbar of Internet Explorer . All the links and pages it opens are in Korean language.

Privacy

No license agreement is displayed during installation, although one could be displayed by another installer if bundled with another application. No EULA or privacy policy related to the software could be found.

System Changes

File Name: “bp6.exe”
MD5Hash: “51ed669aca0e4478394df614abc5d306”

The following files are added:

  • %Program Files%\bonuspack\bonuspack.dll
  • %Program Files%\bonuspack\bpacks.exe
  • %Program Files%\bonuspack\bpack_atx.ini
  • %Program Files%\bonuspack\bpack_icon1.ico
  • %Program Files%\bonuspack\bpack_icon2.ico
  • %Program Files%\bonuspack\bpack_menu.ini
  • %Program Files%\bonuspack\bpack_micon.bmp
  • %Program Files%\bonuspack\bpconfig.ini
  • %Program Files%\bonuspack\exclist.qbl
  • %Program Files%\bonuspack\losslist.qbl
  • %Program Files%\bonuspack\rebag.dll
  • %Program Files%\bonuspack\uninst_bpack.exe
  • %Program Files%\bonuspack\urllist.qbl
  • %Program Files%\bonuspack\urllist2.qbl

The following registry entries are added:

  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\bonuspack
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\bpacks
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browser Helper Objects\{1AD3A632-7E9D-4458-9995-566505CE3609}
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\bonuspack.TInfoButton
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{1AD3A632-7E9D-4458-9995-566505CE3609}\InprocServer32

Symptoms

Symptoms -

Method of Infection

Method of Infection -

Removal -

Removal -

Instructions on Enabling/Disabling Detection and Removal of Potentially Unwanted Programs

Variants

Variants -

    N/A