Ponting Posted October 31, 2014 Share Posted October 31, 2014 You know how you visit a website and suddenly there’s a person talking at you from the bottom right hand corner of the screen about how you should buy product X or make use of service Y?We recently saw a page asking visitors to upgrade their media player, which Malwarebytes Anti-Malware detect as PUP.Optional.SaferInstall (VirusTotal 12 / 53). It looks a lot like many similar download sites out there [1], [2], with one curious addition standing over on the right hand side:A virtual assistant! She isn’t very interactive, instead launching into a recorded voiceover after a minute or so of the visitor doing nothing on the webpage. She says:Please upgrade your media player for faster hd playback.It only takes a minute on broadband and theres no restart requiredJust click this button and follow the easy steps onscreen.Pretty interesting – I haven’t seen a virtual assistant / automated online assistant / video spokesperson / video web presenter / whatever they’re called this week used to promote a PUP (Potentially Unwanted Program) download before.One could argue the virtual assistant also looks somewhat out of place – it looks more like the kind of character you’d see on a children’s website than a page aiming for adults and media player upgrades.Who knows what the brave new world of download advertising will offer up next…Source: https://blog.malwarebytes.org/online-security/2014/10/pup-download-site-makes-use-of-virtual-assistant/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponting Posted October 31, 2014 Author Share Posted October 31, 2014 http://playnow.adsterritory.biz/ is a blank page. The location is north-east of Wichita, Kansas according to http://www.ip-tracker.org/locator/ip-lookup.php?ip=104.156.226.114. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponting Posted October 31, 2014 Author Share Posted October 31, 2014 Why am I getting a blank page, and you aren't. It doesn't make any sense.IDK,they might have taken down the content :unsure:You should ask Malwarebytes then :)https://blog.malwarebytes.org/online-security/2014/10/pup-download-site-makes-use-of-virtual-assistant/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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