Surftastic

Surftastic

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by Yontoo Technology, Inc.

What is Surftastic?

Surftastic is software application developed by Yontoo Technology, Inc.. It is most commonly found on computers running Windows 7 with nearly 61.54% of installations running this operating system. Surftastic's installer is typically 2.00 MB in size and installs around 11 files. The most common release is 2014.04.30.004244 with 0.69% of all installations currently using this version.

Surftastic is most popular in the United States with 18.23% of installations residing in this country.

About Surftastic?

This adware software is designed to display advertisements from its affiliate ad providers, including banner ads, inline text links, and popups. The purpose of these ads is to encourage users to install additional software, such as web browser toolbars and optimization utilities, in order to generate pay-per-click revenue for the publisher. Common symptoms of infection include hyperlinked text on web pages, pop-up ads when hovering over links, the installation of additional adware programs without the user's consent, browser popups recommending fake updates or software, and slow webpage loading due to multiple ads.

Multiple virus scanners have detected malware in Surftastic.

updateSurftastic.exe (MD5: 030aa8f5a3d20d8defe3f2b301b90d5b) has been flagged by 25 scanners:
Scanner Software Result
AhnLab-V3 PUP/Win32.SwiftBrowse
Antiy-AVL GrayWare[AdWare:not-a-virus,HEUR]/MSIL.Kranet
avast! Win32:BrowseFox-DA [PUP]
AVG Generic5.BRCN
Avira ADWARE/BrowseFox.Gen7
AVware Yontoo (fs)
Baidu-International Adware.Win32.BrowseFox.BH
CAT-QuickHeal AdWare.MSIL.r3 (Not a Virus)
Comodo Security UnclassifiedMalware
Dr.Web Trojan.BPlug.250
ESET-NOD32 a variant of Win32/BrowseFox.H
Fortinet FortiGate Adware/Kranet
K7 AntiVirus Trojan ( 0049f7ad1 )
K7GW Trojan ( 020000001 )
Kaspersky not-a-virus:HEUR:AdWare.MSIL.Kranet.heur
Kingsoft AntiVirus Win32.Troj.Generic.a.(kcloud)
Malwarebytes PUP.Optional.Surftastic.A
McAfee BrowseFox.c
McAfee-GW-Edition BrowseFox.c
Qihoo-360 Win32/Virus.Adware.e4c
Sophos Generic PUA DN
Symantec Trojan.Gen.2
Trend Micro ADW_BROWSEF
TrendMicro-HouseCall ADW_BROWSEF
VIPRE Antivirus Yontoo (fs)
SurftasticBHO.dll (MD5: 2a8635b0d2b10a4c99dd2d1253dcd98e) has been flagged by 26 scanners:
Scanner Software Result
Comodo Security Application.Win32.Altbrowse.AK
Dr.Web Trojan.BPlug.17
ESET-NOD32 a variant of Win32/BrowseFox.F
Kaspersky not-a-virus:AdWare.Win32.Agent
Kingsoft AntiVirus Win32.Troj.Agent.ah.(kcloud)
Malwarebytes PUP.Optional.Surftastic.A
McAfee Artemis!2A8635B0D2B1
McAfee-GW-Edition Artemis!2A8635B0D2B1
NANO AntiVirus Riskware.Win32.Agent.cqycvd
Sophos Generic PUA OA
VIPRE Antivirus Adware.Agent
AhnLab-V3 PUP/Win32.SwiftBrowse
Antiy-AVL GrayWare[AdWare:not-a-virus,HEUR]/MSIL.Kranet
avast! Win32:BrowseFox-DA [PUP]
AVG Generic5.BRCN
Avira ADWARE/BrowseFox.Gen7
AVware Yontoo (fs)
Baidu-International Adware.Win32.BrowseFox.BH
CAT-QuickHeal AdWare.MSIL.r3 (Not a Virus)
Fortinet FortiGate Adware/Kranet
K7 AntiVirus Trojan ( 0049f7ad1 )
K7GW Trojan ( 020000001 )
Qihoo-360 Win32/Virus.Adware.e4c
Symantec Trojan.Gen.2
Trend Micro ADW_BROWSEF
TrendMicro-HouseCall ADW_BROWSEF

Software Behaviors

Services:
  • updateSurftastic.exe runs as a service named 'Update Surftastic' (Update Surftastic).
  • updateSurftastic(76).exe runs as a service named 'Update Surftastic' (Update Surftastic).

Software Details

URL:
https://surftastic.net/support
Support:
https://mailto:
Installation path:
C:\Program Files\Surftastic
Uninstaller:
C:\Program Files\Surftastic\Surftasticuninstall.exe
Size:
2.00 MB
Language:
English

Surftastic Executable Details

Primary executable:
SurftasticBHO.dll
Name:
Surftastic
Path:
C:\Program Files\Surftastic\SurftasticBHO.dll
MD5:
2a8635b0d2b10a4c99dd2d1253dcd98e
SHA-1:
–
SHA-256:
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Files installed by Surftastic
File Type Filename MD5
EXE
7za.exe
e92604e043f51c604b6d1ac3bcd3a202
EXE
updateSurftastic.exe
Malware
030aa8f5a3d20d8defe3f2b301b90d5b
EXE
SurftasticUninstall.exe
50459e72a4b7d3d8fa87e18d3e02eba3
DLL
SurftasticBHO.dll
Malware
2a8635b0d2b10a4c99dd2d1253dcd98e
EXE
SurftasticUn.exe
03795b80bfc65979077f00edb0c7ca17
CRX
mkbhmdcccmdakmgaaejjjgllahmljpge.crx
3477bf565792fbd0211c60fe6c128875
EXE
Surftastic.FirstRun.exe
6625db6ed4dec0e00100345b0e7305e0
EXE
Surftastic.BrowserAdapter.exe
82fa5e926c891ee4cc193776caf2f98d
DLL
{01531192-f7ef-415f-a549-cfdb11836731}.dll
068b633d7f3bebcfc7e94330c66a7ceb
DLL
Surftastic.BrowserFilter.Helper.dll
49f4974922c638b5a4b2f2008fa4b688