NewPlayer

NewPlayer

Known Adware

by Offers411

What is NewPlayer?

NewPlayer is software application developed by Offers411. It is most commonly found on computers running Windows 7 with nearly 62.90% of installations running this operating system. NewPlayer's installer is typically 1.00 MB in size and installs around 94 files.

NewPlayer is most popular in the United States with 41.83% of installations residing in this country.

NewPlayer adds 6 scheduled tasks to the Windows Task Scheduler launching the program at randomly scheduled times.

About NewPlayer?

NewPlayer is a software program designed to display advertisements within a user's web browser. This adware is capable of modifying various browser settings, including the search provider and injecting display ads, such as banner ads and popup ad formats, onto webpages. The displayed ads are typically of low quality and are not affiliated with the websites being visited by the user. Additionally, NewPlayer can be challenging to remove through the standard installer and may not fully reset settings such as hijacked search and home pages.

Multiple virus scanners have detected malware in NewPlayer.

AddonNP.exe (MD5: 9c08141c9a7ac94b5e1e067a59ebc501) has been flagged by 20 scanners:
Scanner Software Result
Lavasoft Ad-Aware Trojan.GenericKD.1772327
Agnitum Outpost Riskware.Agent
avast! Win32:Dropper-gen [Drp]
AVware Trojan.Win32.Generic!BT
Baidu-International PUA.Win32.Agent.108
Bitdefender Trojan.GenericKD.1772327
Emsisoft Anti-Malware Trojan.GenericKD.1772327
ESET-NOD32 a variant of MSIL/NewPlayer.A
F-Secure Trojan.GenericKD.1772327
G Data Trojan.GenericKD.1772327
K7 AntiVirus Trojan
K7GW Trojan ( 0049ea561 )
McAfee Artemis!9C08141C9A7A
MicroWorld-eScan Trojan.GenericKD.1772327
nProtect Trojan.GenericKD.1772327
Qihoo-360 Win32/Trojan.Dropper.c9f
Sophos Generic PUA DJ
TrendMicro-HouseCall TROJ_GEN.R0C9H09GR14
VIPRE Antivirus Trojan.Win32.Generic!BT
Malwarebytes PUP.Optional.NewPlayer.A
NewPlayerUpdaterService.exe (MD5: efa0621f2a7dffefad7273963861a1b8) has been flagged by 5 scanners:
Scanner Software Result
avast! Win32:Malware-gen
Baidu-International PUA.MSIL.NewPlayer.BA
ESET-NOD32 a variant of MSIL/NewPlayer.A
Malwarebytes PUP.Optional.NewPlayer.A
TrendMicro-HouseCall Suspicious_GEN.F47V0725
i9NewPlayerD62.exe (MD5: 251fd8d21e39524483853759761c2d61) has been flagged by 23 scanners:
Scanner Software Result
AVware Revizer (fs)
Baidu-International Adware.Win32.AddLyrics.BBQ
ESET-NOD32 a variant of Win32/AdWare.AddLyrics.BQ
F-Prot W32/A-c15b742b!Eldorado
IKARUS anti.virus PUA.AdLyrics
Malwarebytes PUP.Optional.AdLyrics
TrendMicro-HouseCall Suspicious_GEN.F47V0912
VIPRE Antivirus Revizer (fs)
AVG Generic5.BFNR
Comodo Security ApplicUnwnt
Fortinet FortiGate Riskware/AddLyrics
McAfee Artemis!EAD102B6592E
McAfee-GW-Edition BehavesLike.Win32.Downloader.gh
SUPERAntiSpyware Adware.Zusy/Variant
Lavasoft Ad-Aware Trojan.Generic.11801505
Bitdefender Trojan.Generic.11801505
Emsisoft Anti-Malware Trojan.Generic.11801505 (B)
F-Secure Trojan.Generic.11801505
G Data Trojan.Generic.11801505
MicroWorld-eScan Trojan.Generic.11801505
Panda Antivirus Trj/Genetic.gen
avast! Win32:Adware-gen [Adw]
Symantec WS.Reputation.1
i6NewPlayeru.exe (MD5: 3c01b9ea5acd529d7a515eff9bfff81f) has been flagged by 3 scanners:
Scanner Software Result
Baidu-International Adware.Win32.AddLyrics.77
Symantec WS.Reputation.1
TrendMicro-HouseCall Suspicious_GEN.F47V0904
I4NewPlayerj28.exe (MD5: e50eb6cc5cc6b37e4d9729faa1ae6599) has been flagged by 42 scanners:
Scanner Software Result
Lavasoft Ad-Aware Trojan.Generic.11706936
AegisLab AdWare.MSIL.DomaIQ
AVG Generic5.BUOB
AVware Revizer (fs)
Baidu-International Adware.Win32.AddLyrics.bBS
Bitdefender Trojan.Generic.11706936
Emsisoft Anti-Malware Trojan.Generic.11706936 (B)
ESET-NOD32 a variant of Win32/AdWare.AddLyrics.BS
F-Prot W32/A-c15b742b!Eldorado
F-Secure Trojan.Generic.11706936
G Data Trojan.Generic.11706936
Malwarebytes PUP.Optional.AdLyrics
McAfee Artemis!E50EB6CC5CC6
McAfee-GW-Edition BehavesLike.Win32.CryptDoma.gh
MicroWorld-eScan Trojan.Generic.11706936
nProtect Trojan.Generic.11706936
Panda Antivirus Trj/Genetic.gen
Rising Antivirus PE:Trojan.Win32.Generic.1759B322!391754530
Symantec WS.Reputation.1
TrendMicro-HouseCall Suspicious_GEN.F47V0819
VIPRE Antivirus Revizer (fs)
avast! Win32:Adware-gen [Adw]
Avira Adware/AddLyrics.254976.3
Comodo Security ApplicUnwnt
Fortinet FortiGate Riskware/AddLyrics
IKARUS anti.virus Win32.SuspectCrc
Antiy-AVL Trojan/Win32.TSGeneric
Norman Troj_Generic.VPZXH
Qihoo-360 HEUR/Malware.QVM10.Gen
Sophos Generic PUA ED
Trend Micro TROJ_GEN.R047C0OID14
K7 AntiVirus Adware ( 004a9acb1 )
K7GW Adware ( 004a9acb1 )
Agnitum Outpost PUA.AddLyrics!
NANO AntiVirus Trojan.Win32.Rogue.dhceap
AhnLab-V3 Adware/Win32.AddLyrics
Kaspersky not-a-virus:HEUR:AdWare.Win32.Agent.heur
Avira AntiVir Adware/AddLyrics.BE.12
CMC Antivirus Trojan.Win32.Swizzor.1!O
Kingsoft AntiVirus Win32.Troj.Generic.a.(kcloud)
Dr.Web Trojan.Revizer.74
SUPERAntiSpyware Adware.Zusy/Variant

Software Behaviors

Services:
  • v01NewPlayerBz174.exe runs as a service named 'NewPlayer' (NewPlayer) "NewPlayer".
  • W4NewPlayerJv177.exe runs as a service named 'NewPlayer' (NewPlayer) "NewPlayer".
  • w9Gy179.exe runs as a service named 'NewPlayer' (NewPlayer) "NewPlayer".
  • R2NewPlayerUu176.exe runs as a service named 'NewPlayer' (NewPlayer) "NewPlayer".
  • P8Ig181.exe runs as a service named 'NewPlayer' (NewPlayer) "NewPlayer".
  • h2NewPlayerSs177.exe runs as a service named 'NewPlayer' (NewPlayer) "NewPlayer".
Scheduled tasks:
  • wdNewPlayerE.exe is scheduled as a task named 'NewPlayer_wd' (runs daily at 20:01).
  • B7NewPlayerj93.exe is scheduled as a task named 'NewPlayer Update' (runs daily at 7:18 AM).
  • D1NewPlayerP52.exe is scheduled as a task named 'NewPlayer Update' (runs daily at 17:47).
  • T3NewPlayerS46.exe is scheduled as a task named 'NewPlayer Update' (runs daily at 9:29 PM).
  • N0NewPlayerX.exe is scheduled as a task named 'NewPlayer_wd' (runs daily at 9:40 PM).
  • T3NewPlayerX28.exe is scheduled as a task named 'NewPlayer Update' (runs daily at 5:38 PM).

Startup Entries

Startup tasks:
  • wdNewPlayerE.exe is automatically launched at startup through a scheduled task named NewPlayer_wd.
  • B7NewPlayerj93.exe is automatically launched at startup through a scheduled task named NewPlayer Update.
  • D1NewPlayerP52.exe is automatically launched at startup through a scheduled task named NewPlayer Update.
  • T3NewPlayerX28.exe is automatically launched at startup through a scheduled task named NewPlayer Update.
  • M8NewPlayerq22.exe is automatically launched at startup through a scheduled task named NewPlayer Update.
  • f4NewPlayerN.exe is automatically launched at startup through a scheduled task named NewPlayer_wd.

Software Details

URL:
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Support:
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Installation path:
C:\Program Files\ver5newplayer
Uninstaller:
C:\Program Files\ver5NewPlayer\Uninstall.exe
Size:
1.00 MB
Language:
English

NewPlayer Executable Details

Primary executable:
k6NewPlayeru.exe
Name:
NewPlayer
Path:
C:\Program Files\ver5newplayer\k6NewPlayeru.exe
MD5:
62d8a1037c450f738ddbfc5b1c4869ce
SHA-1:
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SHA-256:
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Files installed by NewPlayer
File Type Filename MD5
EXE
efa0621f2a7dffefad7273963861a1b8
EXE
bb56b6fb600f239b73b0b1a419d057a3
EXE
547aea3f79f6362c14487a3bcda1cad7
EXE
7cfaf5e74904c12c3194009bea071294
EXE
9275459a6c00fd22a84910505e181c22
EXE
9f248cfd34c02fd68e6d5908444e0ba6
EXE
2680746d4cc884b5eee7ee51880c6f7b
EXE
203975595ce12009be009f5d7ba93e99
EXE
89d59f7f777fe01819fa1452615a1a85
EXE
973b3e157f6f2875ab32687b38756443