WebSearch Adware
Summary
Office workers and even individual users could be attracted to the promises of having a simple and easy way to convert DOC files to PDFs, merge documents, etc. It should be noted that WebSearch adware extensions are mostly capable of performing advertised actions to ensure their prolonged presence on users devices. The fraudsters use affiliate links to the provided resources, so each time users click on one of them, they would be generating monetary gains for the operators of the application. Based on the collected search data, the engine will go through its list of partner websites and actively promote the most relevant ones in the displayed results. The WebSearch extensions have been removed from the Chrome Web Store, but users should remain careful as they may encounter them in resources obtained from file-sharing platforms.
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