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Snake

ID: klhnojamjpdafikjihkihhogapmedlkm

Could be malicious

Supported Languages

🇧🇩Bengali

🇧🇷Brazilian Portuguese

🇬🇧British English

🇧🇬Bulgarian

🇪🇸Catalan

🇨🇳Chinese (Simplified)

🇹🇼Chinese (Traditional)

🇭🇷Croatian

🇨🇿Czech

🇩🇰Danish

🇳🇱Dutch

🇺🇸English

🇪🇪Estonian

🇵🇭Filipino

🇫🇮Finnish

🇫🇷French

🇩🇪German

🇬🇷Greek

🇮🇳Gujarati

🇮🇳Hindi

🇭🇺Hungarian

🇮🇩Indonesian

🇮🇹Italian

🇯🇵Japanese

🇰🇷Korean

🇲🇽Latin American Spanish

🇱🇻Latvian

🇱🇹Lithuanian

🇲🇾Malay

🇮🇳Malayalam

🇮🇳Marathi

🇳🇴Norwegian

🇵🇱Polish

🇵🇹Portuguese

🇷🇴Romanian

🇷🇺Russian

🇷🇸Serbian

🇸🇰Slovak

🇸🇮Slovenian

🇪🇸Spanish

🇸🇪Swedish

🇮🇳Tamil

🇮🇳Telugu

🇹🇭Thai

🇹🇷Turkish

🇺🇦Ukrainian

🇺🇸US English

🇻🇳Vietnamese

Extension Info & Metadata

Status

Removed

Version

1.1.0.13

Size

0.53 MB

Rating

3.7/5

Reviews

Users

63,563

Type

Extension

Updated

May 20, 2020

Publisher Contextual Analysis

Author: Games PopUpView Profile

Total Extensions

Active

Obsolete

Listed

Unlisted

Total Users

91,749

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Snake is a popular game in which you have to play by a snake to eat, grow and try not to crush.

Control the snake, collect food and avoid crash with your own tail. Every time a snake eats a piece of food, it becomes longer, which gradually complicates the game.

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Critical0

High2

Medium2

Low0

Versions scanned

Showing 1 of 1 scanned version with more than one unique finding. Counts are unique findings that include each version.

Extension Version	Code Review Findings
1.1.0.13 Code review	4

Extension Version	Code Review Findings
1.1.0.13	4

Files with findings

2 distinct paths — top paths by unique finding count:

newtabpromo_bg.js3
manifest.json1

S.No.	Category	Severity	File	Summary	Found in Version
1	Tracking	high	newtabpromo_bg.js (line 26)	On every browser startup the background script silently POSTs to a third-party tracking endpoint (`p2.stat-metric.com/track.php`) with the campaign ID `snake2` and the extension version. This telemetry is not disclose…	1.1.0.13
2	Tracking	high	newtabpromo_bg.js (line 3)	On first install the extension opens a new tab to `promo-newtab.club`, passing the user's UI language and the extension name as query parameters. This is an undisclosed promotional redirect that exfiltrates locale inf…	1.1.0.13
3	Other	medium	manifest.json (line 16)	The manifest explicitly enables `unsafe-eval` in the content security policy, allowing dynamic code evaluation via `eval()` or `new Function()`. The published manifest summary omits this CSP override entirely, indicat…	1.1.0.13
4	Tracking	medium	newtabpromo_bg.js (line 22)	The extension registers an uninstall callback to `promo-newtab.club`, transmitting the UI language and extension name upon removal. Combined with the install redirect to the same domain this confirms a lifecycle-track…	1.1.0.13

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URLs

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promo-newtab.club	-	http://promo-newtab.club/?lang=
developers.chrome.com	/extensions/runtime	https://developers.chrome.com/extensions/runtime#method-setUninstallURL
p2.stat-metric.com	/track.php	https://p2.stat-metric.com/track.php
github.com	/johnkpaul/jquery-ajax-retry	https://github.com/johnkpaul/jquery-ajax-retry
www.w3.org	/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html	http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14.37
clients2.google.com	/service/update2/crx	https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx
ssl.google-analytics.com;	-	https://ssl.google-analytics.com;
sizzlejs.com	-	http://sizzlejs.com/
www.w3.org	/2000/svg	http://www.w3.org/2000/svg
www.w3.org	/1999/xlink	http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink

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1.1.0.13	IPv4	-

2.4 out of 5 · 10 most recent reviews

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I liked the idea for this extension but when I opened the snake extension it just had an ugly looking snake in a basic green grass patch and the controls do nothing were all you can do is stare and that hideous looking creature.

Zachary B·7 Apr 2021

WORK!

Enrico Lombardi·3 Apr 2021

Adware. Its just adware.

Lol Useofonion M1n3cra4t·

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Security Alert: Confirmed Malware

Snake

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