BooZaka

BooZaka

Known Adware

by Yontoo Technology, Inc.

What is BooZaka?

BooZaka is software application developed by Yontoo Technology, Inc.. It is most commonly found on computers running Windows 7 with nearly 55.17% of installations running this operating system. BooZaka's installer is typically 7.00 MB in size and installs around 18 files. The most common release is 2014.08.25.211604 with 10.34% of all installations currently using this version.

BooZaka is most popular in the United States with 42.11% of installations residing in this country.

About BooZaka?

BooZaka is an adware program designed to integrate with popular web browsers such as IE, Chrome, and Firefox. The primary purpose of the program is to generate advertising supported and affiliate revenue by displaying various ad formats within the user's browser. These ad formats may include banners, text-links, search related adverts, and malvertising, with the intention of enticing users to download additional bundled adware software. Furthermore, BooZaka has the capability to track and report the user's browsing behavior, including visited web pages and domains, as well as the interactions with displayed advertisements. This program may also modify the web browser's homepage and search provider, along with altering security settings to enable additional ad-supported functions within the browser. BooZaka is often distributed through bundled offers for free software, such as video utilities or updates, that are obtained from the Internet.

Multiple virus scanners have detected malware in BooZaka.

updateBooZaka.exe (MD5: 6b6f3dfdceb4730a45b0c8c08f0c210c) has been flagged by 34 scanners:
Scanner Software Result
Lavasoft Ad-Aware Adware.BrowseFox.BH
AhnLab-V3 Win-PUP/BrowseFox.Gen
ALYac Adware.BrowseFox.BH
avast! Win32:BrowseFox-DB [PUP]
AVG Generic.D06
Avira ADWARE/BrowseFox.Gen7
AVware Yontoo (fs)
Baidu-International Adware.MSIL.BrowseFox.H
Bitdefender Adware.BrowseFox.BH
Bkav FE W32.HfsAdware.FD21
CAT-QuickHeal PUA.Boozaka.Gen
Cyren W32/S-26365c9e!Eldorado
Dr.Web Trojan.Yontoo.1734
Emsisoft Anti-Malware Adware.BrowseFox.BH (B)
ESET-NOD32 a variant of MSIL/BrowseFox.H potentially unwanted
Fortinet FortiGate Adware/BrowseFox
F-Prot W32/S-26365c9e!Eldorado
F-Secure Adware.BrowseFox.BH
G Data Adware.BrowseFox.BH
K7 AntiVirus Adware ( 700000121 )
K7GW Adware ( 700000121 )
McAfee BrowseFox-FTQ
McAfee-GW-Edition BrowseFox-FTQ
MicroWorld-eScan Adware.BrowseFox.BH
NANO AntiVirus Riskware.Win32.BPlug.djpkri
nProtect Adware.BrowseFox.BH
Panda Antivirus Trj/CI.A
Qihoo-360 Win32/Virus.Adware.708
Sophos Generic PUA GJ
Symantec Yontoo.C
Tencent Trojan.Win32.Qudamah.Gen.18
Trend Micro TROJ_GEN.R00UC0EBB15
TrendMicro-HouseCall TROJ_GEN.R00UC0EBB15
VIPRE Antivirus Yontoo (fs)

Software Behaviors

Services:
  • updateBooZaka.exe runs as a service named 'Util BooZaka' (Util BooZaka).

Software Details

URL:
https://boozaka.net/support
Support:
https://mailto:
Installation path:
C:\Program Files\BooZaka
Uninstaller:
C:\Program Files\BooZaka\BooZakaUn.exe REP_
Size:
7.00 MB
Language:
English

BooZaka Executable Details

Primary executable:
updateBooZaka.exe
Name:
BooZaka
Path:
C:\Program Files\BooZaka\updateBooZaka.exe
MD5:
6b6f3dfdceb4730a45b0c8c08f0c210c
SHA-1:
SHA-256:
Files installed by BooZaka
File Type Filename MD5
EXE
e92604e043f51c604b6d1ac3bcd3a202
EXE
6b6f3dfdceb4730a45b0c8c08f0c210c
EXE
a7b64735abf5f46b1fb6fd851cfbab13
EXE
e3a8b9b87c049f8bd2b09c41d2c1e076
DLL
7c6de915d50559c3eb718f0570223ede
CRX
2d28121b0d77e0b89d09c75fc05e1ce3
CRX
e2e34952a932654d81069be2190d8e11
CRX
5fd397fa2a23a8b38ba145a60245054f
CRX
e4c40c4666c526d87a4553c7c1d34763
CRX
213c94430a3f0bd4182e5d3ba291e9f0