Caramava

Caramava

Known Adware

by Yontoo Technology, Inc.

What is Caramava?

Caramava is software application developed by Yontoo Technology, Inc.. It is most commonly found on computers running Windows 7 with nearly 54.93% of installations running this operating system. Caramava's installer is typically 2.00 MB in size and installs around 9 files. The most common release is 2014.04.25.210012 with 12.68% of all installations currently using this version.

Caramava is most popular in the United States with 45.59% of installations residing in this country.

About Caramava?

Caramava is a web browser extension that delivers targeted advertisements to users through pop-ups, banners, and injected link ads. It integrates as a BHO in Internet Explorer, an extension in Chrome, and an add-in in Firefox, often being silently installed. This software incorporates LookForWord links within standard text, converting them to double underlined hyperlinks, which are identifiable by the "Ads by Caramava" label upon mouse roll-over.

Multiple virus scanners have detected malware in Caramava.

updateCaramava.exe (MD5: d5e463f23ff87d663286c86e12b9d0c1) has been flagged by 32 scanners:
Scanner Software Result
Agnitum Outpost Riskware.Agent
Dr.Web Trojan.BPlug.10
ESET-NOD32 a variant of Win32/BrowseFox.G
Fortinet FortiGate Riskware/BrowseFox
Malwarebytes PUP.Optional.Caramava.A
McAfee Artemis!D5E463F23FF8
McAfee-GW-Edition Artemis!D5E463F23FF8
TrendMicro-HouseCall TROJ_GEN.F47V0301
Lavasoft Ad-Aware Gen:Variant.Adware.BHO.Agent.4
Avira AntiVir APPL/BrowseFox.Gen2
Antiy-AVL GrayWare[AdWare:not-a-virus]/Win32.Agent
AVG BrowseFox.F
Baidu-International Adware.Win32.Agent.AABj
Bitdefender Gen:Variant.Adware.BHO.Agent.4
CAT-QuickHeal AdWare.Agent.r5 (Not a Virus)
Comodo Security Application.Win32.Altbrowse.AK
Emsisoft Anti-Malware Gen:Variant.Adware.BHO.Agent.4 (B)
F-Secure Gen:Variant.Adware.BHO.Agent.4
G Data Gen:Variant.Adware.BHO.Agent.4
IKARUS anti.virus not-a-virus:AdWare.Win32
Jiangmin Adware/Agent.izz
K7 AntiVirus Unwanted-Program ( 00454f261 )
K7GW Unwanted-Program ( 00454f261 )
Kaspersky not-a-virus:AdWare.Win32.Agent.ahbx
Kingsoft AntiVirus Win32.Troj.Agent.ah.(kcloud)
MicroWorld-eScan Gen:Variant.Adware.BHO.Agent.4
NANO AntiVirus Riskware.Win32.Agent.cuenda
Panda Antivirus Trj/CI.A
Sophos Generic PUA OP
SUPERAntiSpyware Adware.BrowseFox/Variant
Vba32 AntiVirus AdWare.Agent
VIPRE Antivirus Yontoo (fs)
CaramavaBHO.dll (MD5: 6711bd319e002e8ee378571245cbfccd) has been flagged by 32 scanners:
Scanner Software Result
Lavasoft Ad-Aware Gen:Variant.Adware.BHO.Agent.4
Agnitum Outpost PUA.Agent!
Avira AntiVir APPL/BrowseFox.Gen2
Antiy-AVL GrayWare[AdWare:not-a-virus]/Win32.Agent
AVG BrowseFox.F
Baidu-International Adware.Win32.Agent.AABj
Bitdefender Gen:Variant.Adware.BHO.Agent.4
CAT-QuickHeal AdWare.Agent.r5 (Not a Virus)
Comodo Security Application.Win32.Altbrowse.AK
Dr.Web Trojan.BPlug.28
Emsisoft Anti-Malware Gen:Variant.Adware.BHO.Agent.4 (B)
ESET-NOD32 a variant of Win32/BrowseFox.F
Fortinet FortiGate Adware/Agent
F-Secure Gen:Variant.Adware.BHO.Agent.4
G Data Gen:Variant.Adware.BHO.Agent.4
IKARUS anti.virus not-a-virus:AdWare.Win32
Jiangmin Adware/Agent.izz
K7 AntiVirus Unwanted-Program ( 00454f261 )
K7GW Unwanted-Program ( 00454f261 )
Kaspersky not-a-virus:AdWare.Win32.Agent.ahbx
Kingsoft AntiVirus Win32.Troj.Agent.ah.(kcloud)
Malwarebytes PUP.Optional.Caramava.A
McAfee Artemis!6711BD319E00
McAfee-GW-Edition Artemis!6711BD319E00
MicroWorld-eScan Gen:Variant.Adware.BHO.Agent.4
NANO AntiVirus Riskware.Win32.Agent.cuenda
Panda Antivirus Trj/CI.A
Sophos Generic PUA OP
SUPERAntiSpyware Adware.BrowseFox/Variant
TrendMicro-HouseCall TROJ_GEN.F47V0509
Vba32 AntiVirus AdWare.Agent
VIPRE Antivirus Yontoo (fs)

Software Behaviors

Services:
  • updateCaramava.exe runs as a service named 'Update Caramava' (Update Caramava).

Software Details

URL:
https://caramava.com/support
Support:
https://mailto:
Installation path:
C:\Program Files\Caramava
Uninstaller:
C:\Program Files\Caramava\Caramavauninstall.exe
Size:
2.00 MB
Language:
English

Caramava Executable Details

Primary executable:
updateCaramava.exe
Name:
Caramava
Path:
C:\Program Files\Caramava\updateCaramava.exe
MD5:
d5e463f23ff87d663286c86e12b9d0c1
SHA-1:
–
SHA-256:
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Files installed by Caramava
File Type Filename MD5
EXE
e92604e043f51c604b6d1ac3bcd3a202
EXE
d5e463f23ff87d663286c86e12b9d0c1
EXE
56e23e1b998427b486d4a5a6408b2dfb
DLL
6711bd319e002e8ee378571245cbfccd
EXE
dc668f1dc6361c8c26517b3d44f24aa2
DLL
6d84dbb3c3ddb971a38070673065c040
EXE
048d3dac1bc703a2f6952447cf90f61f
EXE
6303631471dfe9424d0a7ea867b861a6
CRX
aa4426d06f8ac0c54776552f0837a768