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Crack hunting: not all its cracked up to be

Researchers often browse crack and keygen sites looking to find paid software for free. This is risky practice, though, because the user may end up downloading unwanted software that can do more harm than good. The crack download itself was actually not a crack, but a file we detect as PUP. Generic.Generic. This crack did not run properly on my test machine, most likely because of sandbox sensitivity. The download page redirected to a page advertising DriverFix. The advertisement is one of many adverts offered by ad rotators.”]

Source: https://blog.malwarebytes.com/puppum/2019/02/crack-hunting-not-all-its-cracked-up-to-be/

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