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Domain Information

The domain www.search.ask.com registered by Ask.com was initially registered in October of 1998 through MARKMONITOR INC.. This domain has been seen distributing various forms of adware (some being very aggressive) directly or via bundled installations. The hosted servers are located in Chicago, Illinois within the United States which resides on the Akamai Technologies, Inc. network. The domain is associated with the publisher APN LLC who is located in Oakland, California in the United States.
Registrar:
MARKMONITOR INC.

Server location:
Illinois, United States (US)

Create date:
Tuesday, October 20, 1998

Expires date:
Wednesday, October 19, 2022

Updated date:
Wednesday, December 4, 2013

ASN:
AS20940 AKAMAI-ASN1 , US

Root domain:
ask.com

Whois:
1 ask.com record

Scanner detections:
Adware distribution

Scan engine
Details
Detections

ESET NOD32
Win32/Injector.BAVA trojan
100.00%

Dr.Web
Trojan.PWS.Panda.5841
100.00%

F-Secure
Trojan.GenericKDZ.24971
100.00%

VIPRE Antivirus
Threat.4881930
100.00%

avast!
Win32:CeeInject-AT [Trj]
100.00%

McAfee
Trojan.Generic-FAUT!92970B0D168B
100.00%

Norman
Trojan.GenericKDZ.24971
100.00%

Emsisoft Anti-Malware
Trojan.GenericKDZ.24971
100.00%

Microsoft Security Essentials
Threat.Undefined
100.00%

The domain www.search.ask.com has been seen to resolve to the following 8 IP addresses.

104.70.65.151
a104-70-65-151.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com
August 3, 2016

104.90.101.115
a104-90-101-115.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com
July 13, 2016

23.72.62.2
a23-72-62-2.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com
July 12, 2016

23.218.70.166
a23-218-70-166.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com
June 8, 2016

23.49.181.189
a23-49-181-189.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com
June 4, 2016

172.232.73.46
a172-232-73-46.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com
April 8, 2016

184.50.37.52
a184-50-37-52.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com
February 24, 2016

23.218.115.116
a23-218-115-116.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com
February 11, 2016

File downloads found at URLs served by www.search.ask.com.

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http://www.search.ask.com/?gct=hp&o=APN10644A&qrsc=2871&l=dis&sver=3&apn_ptnrs=^AG5&dateOfInstall=2014-11-19&d=533_257&v=1.1_536  (download)

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http://www.search.ask.com/search?q=xnxx&apn_dtid=^BND101^YY^IQ&d=540-110&shad=s_0048&atb=sysid=540:appid=110:uid=f61e4d7df6e727de:uc2=781:typekbn=1.8:src=hmp:o=APN11772A:tg=&p2=^BRP^BND101^YY^IQ&apn_ptnrs=^BRP&ctype=videos&o=APN11772A&lang=en&gct=hp&tpr=2&ts=1443217493082  (search.htm)

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http://www.search.ask.com/web?l=dis&q=netflix&o=APN10644A&apn_dtid=^BND533^YY^BR&shad=s_0048,s_0019&gct=hp&apn_ptnrs=^AG5&d=533-213&lang=pt&atb=sysid=533:appid=213:uid=eca4356786f0df94:uc2=781:typekbn=1.1:src=hmp:o=APN10644A:tg=&p2=^AG5^BND533^YY^BR  (49e72512e45e1495e345dd7b88e0ce6b)

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http://www.search.ask.com/web?apn_dtid=^TCH001^YY^PK&apn_ptnrs=^AGI&atb=sysid=448:appid=20:uid=924df731090fc905:uc2=1088:typekbn=x0000:src=crb:o=APN10648:ua=Torch:tg=&d=448-20&gct=ds&lang=en&o=APN10648&p2=^AGI^TCH001^YY^PK&shad=s_0045&ts=1464236049207&tpr=6&q=google download&ots=1464236387703  (web.htm)

9 / 68      (Malware)
http://www.search.ask.com/setup.exe  (92970b0d168b7fd87408cb6a31b05eac)

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http://www.search.ask.com/?gct=hp&o=APN10644A&qrsc=2871&l=dis&sver=3&apn_ptnrs=^AG5&dateOfInstall=2015-05-21&d=533_215&v=1.1_718  (chrome.exe)

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http://www.search.ask.com/?gct=hp&o=APN11773A&sysid=539&qrsc=2871&l=dis&sver=3&t_type=1&dateOfInstall=2015-08-28&d=539-131-0&v=7.6-850-0&apn_ptnrs=^BRQ  (download)

0 / 68
http://www.search.ask.com/web?l=dis&q=google&o=APN11773A&apn_dtid=^BND101^YY^VN&shad=s_0048&gct=hp&apn_ptnrs=^BRQ&d=539-131&lang=en&atb=sysid=539:appid=131:uid=c1040060e6af985d:uc2=867:typekbn=7.6:src=hmp:o=APN11773A:tg=&p2=^BRQ^BND101^YY^VN  (23b8b0b10da09ea91c85f6514d41a5ad)

0 / 68
http://www.search.ask.com/web?tpid=SIENDD&o=APN11950&gct=tab&tpr=5&q=gmail email&ots=1454275731736  (web.htm)

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http://www.search.ask.com/web?psv=&apn_dbr=ie_11.0.9600.17689&apn_dtid=^OSJ000^YY^US&itbv=12.24.1.51&p2=^BBD^OSJ000^YY^US&apn_ptnrs=BBD&o=APN11405&gct=hp&pf=V7&tpid=ORJ-SPE&trgb=IE&pt=tb&apn_uid=174D0FF1-B96F-40BA-BCEA-E30CD3C64A67&doi=2015-04-25&tpr=5&q=Lucky Dube Albums&&ots=1440891043305  (lucky dube.htm)

URL:
http://www.search.ask.com/

Title:
“Ask.com”

SSL certificate subject:
CN=www.search.ask.com, OU=search, O=Ask.com, L=Oakland, S=California, C=US

SSL certificate issuer:
CN=GeoTrust SSL CA - G3, O=GeoTrust Inc., C=US

Web server:
Apache

Facebook:
Likes:  92
Shares:  501
Comments:  121

Statistics are for the previous month.

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