Shop and Save Up

Shop and Save Up

Known Adware

by BrightCircle Investments Limited

What is Shop and Save Up?

Shop and Save Up is software application developed by BrightCircle Investments Limited. It is most commonly found on computers running Windows 7 with nearly 57.84% of installations running this operating system. Shop and Save Up's installer is typically 10.00 MB in size and installs around 145 files.

Shop and Save Up is most popular in the United States with 16.88% of installations residing in this country.

Shop and Save Up adds 3 scheduled tasks to the Windows Task Scheduler launching the program at randomly scheduled times.

About Shop and Save Up?

Shop and Save Up is a browser plugin program designed to display advertisements. It delivers various types of ads such as banner ads, text-links, coupons, and other offers within the user's web browser, and may also generate pop-ups outside of the browser. These advertisements may come from hijacked search engines with low relevance, and may potentially expose the user to malware, adware, or other potentially unwanted programs (PUPs). Furthermore, the program may track the user's web browsing history and actions and transmit this information to a command and control server.

Multiple virus scanners have detected malware in Shop and Save Up.

utils.exe (MD5: f872596129da13064fa52305e10f65dc) has been flagged by 31 scanners:
Scanner Software Result
Lavasoft Ad-Aware Gen:Application.Parj.1
Agnitum Outpost PUA.Toolbar.CrossRider
AhnLab-V3 PUP/Win32.CrossRider
Arcabit Application.Parj.1
avast! NSIS:Crossrider-ES [PUP]
AVG Crossrider
Avira ADWARE/CrossRider.Gen7
AVware Trojan.Win32.Generic!BT
Baidu-International Adware.Win32.CrossAd.CF
Bitdefender Gen:Application.Parj.1
Cyren W32/Application.IFMS-5863
Dr.Web Trojan.DownLoader14.10941
ESET-NOD32 a variant of Win32/Toolbar.CrossRider.CM potentially unwanted
F-Secure Gen:Application.Parj.1
G Data Gen:Application.Parj
K7 AntiVirus Adware
K7GW Adware ( 004b98a11 )
Kaspersky not-a-virus:AdWare.Win32.CrossRider
Malwarebytes PUP.Optional.ShopAndSave.A
McAfee Artemis!F872596129DA
McAfee-GW-Edition BehavesLike.Win32.Dropper.tc
MicroWorld-eScan Gen:Application.Parj.1
NANO AntiVirus Riskware.Win32.CrossRider.dsxfkx
Panda Antivirus Trj/CI.A
Qihoo-360 HEUR/QVM20.1.Malware.Gen
Rising Antivirus PE:Trojan.Win32.Generic.18C743FB!415712251
SUPERAntiSpyware PUP.CrossRider/Variant
Symantec Trojan.Gen
Trend Micro TROJ_GEN.R08NC0OFN15
VIPRE Antivirus Trojan.Win32.Generic!BT
Zillya Trojan.BlackGen.Win32.11

Software Behaviors

Scheduled tasks:
  • cfe97967-d91c-4f9e-b66d-b19293c46c3c-1-6.exe is scheduled as a task named 'cfe97967-d91c-4f9e-b66d-b19293c46c3c-1-6'.
  • f6e9ae87-5ccd-4e52-958a-dccaadd641f8-1-6.exe is scheduled as a task named 'temp_f6e9ae87-5ccd-4e52-958a-dccaadd641f8-14'.
  • f6e9ae87-5ccd-4e52-958a-dccaadd641f8-10.exe is scheduled as a task named 'temp_f6e9ae87-5ccd-4e52-958a-dccaadd641f8-10_user'.

Startup Entries

Startup tasks:
  • cfe97967-d91c-4f9e-b66d-b19293c46c3c-1-6.exe is automatically launched at startup through a scheduled task named cfe97967-d91c-4f9e-b66d-b19293c46c3c-1-6.
  • 1f8fdff3-ba86-40f4-a012-a61ff631e986-1-7.exe is automatically launched at startup through a scheduled task named 1f8fdff3-ba86-40f4-a012-a61ff631e986-7.
  • 2f282854-552d-42c5-89c0-12f1fab6979e-11.exe is automatically launched at startup through a scheduled task named 2f282854-552d-42c5-89c0-12f1fab6979e-11.
  • 2f282854-552d-42c5-89c0-12f1fab6979e-10.exe is automatically launched at startup through a scheduled task named 2f282854-552d-42c5-89c0-12f1fab6979e-10_user.
  • 2f282854-552d-42c5-89c0-12f1fab6979e-1-7.exe is automatically launched at startup through a scheduled task named 2f282854-552d-42c5-89c0-12f1fab6979e-1-7.
  • 2f282854-552d-42c5-89c0-12f1fab6979e-1-6.exe is automatically launched at startup through a scheduled task named 2f282854-552d-42c5-89c0-12f1fab6979e-1-6.

Software Details

URL:
Support:
Installation path:
C:\Program Files\shop and save up
Uninstaller:
C:\Program Files\Shop and Save Up\Uninstall.exe /fcp=1
Size:
10.00 MB
Language:
English

Shop and Save Up Executable Details

Primary executable:
utils.exe
Name:
Shop and Save Up
Path:
C:\Program Files\shop and save up\utils.exe
MD5:
f872596129da13064fa52305e10f65dc
SHA-1:
SHA-256:
Files installed by Shop and Save Up
File Type Filename MD5
EXE
383bbc9b8d75e5cc26ce5af86ef97144
EXE
dca48180a0124d77089b28240b272d84
EXE
4a252506a2767acc5ffc914cf6b9f3d4
EXE
17d3c5299f7f1d921c9e0bd7f18d18c5
EXE
8a9f86eaf39e958cd7e71641fbf1e839
EXE
2c997a59164dc82cc4bd4bd08e0dee30
EXE
87f8353a75bf466719e33ed78b8da79b
EXE
f84a81ec82efc2525f461466909c4658
EXE
df2435b86208cd3685efd7dd31f30672
EXE
059591f0c41ba8103c209bdec65eb483