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This extension was removed from the Chrome Web Store as malware. Do not install it.Extension: Sound Equaliser

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Sound Equaliser

ID: fiphekinhfebkgjfmnpdjaopccohobgl

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

4.1.1

Size

0.21 MB

Rating

4.1/5

Reviews

Users

2,400,100

Type

Extension

Updated

Mar 20, 2023

Publisher Contextual Analysis

Trusted

Author: EqualizerView Profile
MX records exist: Yes
Domain exists: Yes
Is disposable: No
Is role-based: No
Mailbox exists: Yes

Total Extensions

Active

Obsolete

Listed

Unlisted

Total Users

2,400,107

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Audio equaliser with most popular music genre presets. Make own settings of sound, bass, volume, acoustic

Audio equalizers are a great way to customize the sound of your audio files. With an the extension, you can adjust the frequency of your files to make them sound better. If you're looking for an easy way to customize the sound, then an Equaliser for Chrome is the perfect solution. A sound equaliser and volume booster is a device application that allows users to improve the sound levels of their audio devices. It is used to enhance the quality of recordings, music, and other sources.

User Growth

Showing data from Feb 23, 2023 to Jun 27, 2023

Versions

+985.06%(+2,178,904 users)

Compared to 3 months ago

2 versions released in this period

Rating Count

Total: 10 ratings+2 (25%)

Average Rating

Current: 4.10 / 5.0+4.10

Extracted Data

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Critical1

High4

Medium4

Low3

Versions scanned

Showing 2 of 2 scanned versions with more than one unique finding. Counts are unique findings that include each version.

Extension Version	Code Review Findings
4.1.1 Code review	8
4.1.0 Code review	4

Extension Version	Code Review Findings
4.1.1	8
4.1.0	4

Files with findings

5 distinct paths — top paths by unique finding count:

background.js5
content.js2
manifest.json2
options.html2
libs/tuna.js1

S.No.	Category	Severity	File	Summary	Found in Version
1	Unauthorized Data Collection	critical	content.js (line 1)	Upon receiving a `START_RECORD` message from the background script, this content script calls `chrome.tabCapture.capture({audio: true, video: false})` to silently begin capturing the audio stream of a target tab. The …	4.1.1
2	Code Injection	high	manifest.json (line 12)	The manifest explicitly enables `'unsafe-eval'` in the isolated world CSP, allowing the extension to call `eval()`, `new Function()`, or `setTimeout(string)` at runtime. Combined with the broad host permission `:///…	4.1.1
3	Code Injection	high	manifest.json (line 11)	The manifest explicitly enables 'unsafe-eval' in the isolated_world CSP directive, which allows dynamic code execution via eval(), new Function(), and similar constructs within the extension's content script execution…	4.1.0
4	Privilege Escalation	high	background.js (line 587)	The background service worker creates a hidden tab (`active: false, pinned: true`) pointing to its own options.html page. This technique opens an invisible UI page that can invoke `chrome.tabCapture.capture()` — which…	4.1.1
5	Unauthorized Data Collection	high	background.js (line 1360)	When a `changeStatus` message with value `1` is received, the background script calls `chrome.tabs.get()` to retrieve the full tab object, checks whether the tab is currently playing audio (`i.audible`), stores the ta…	4.1.1
6	Other	medium	content.js (line 1)	When tab capture becomes active, the extension monitors and manipulates the browser window's fullscreen state via `chrome.windows.update()`, saving the prior state to restore later. Silently altering the window state …	4.1.1
7	Other	medium	background.js (line 1308)	On both install and update events, the extension calls `c(d)` which writes a large default state object to `chrome.storage.local`, with both success and error callbacks intentionally left empty. Triggering state re-in…	4.1.1
8	Tracking	medium	options.html (line 9)	The options page loads fonts and icons directly from Google CDN (fonts.googleapis.com, fonts.gstatic.com) rather than bundling them locally. Every time the hidden capture tab is opened, Google receives the user's IP a…	4.1.1
9	Unauthorized Data Collection	medium	options.html (line 9)	The options page unconditionally loads fonts and icon resources from external Google CDN domains (fonts.googleapis.com, fonts.gstatic.com). Every time a user opens the options page, the browser sends a request to Goog…	4.1.0
10	Network Interception	low	libs/tuna.js (line 871)	The Convolver effect uses an XHR GET to load an impulse response file from a fully caller-controlled URL. If calling code passes an external URL as the `buffer` property, this executes a covert outbound network reques…	4.1.1
11	Obfuscation	low	background.js (line 1308)	On both install and update events the extension calls c(d), which resolves to chrome.storage.local.set(defaultSettings). While the written values appear to be benign defaults (EQ settings, volume, preset names), the p…	4.1.0
12	Other	low	background.js (line 587)	The background service worker automatically creates a pinned, background tab pointing to the extension's options.html every time audio capture is initiated. This is triggered both on extension install/update and whene…	4.1.0

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clients2.google.com	/service/update2/crx	https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx
fonts.googleapis.com	-	https://fonts.googleapis.com
fonts.gstatic.com	-	https://fonts.gstatic.com
fonts.googleapis.com	/css2	https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Nunito+Sans:ital,wght@0,200;0,300;1,200&display=swap
fonts.googleapis.com	/css2	https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Material+Symbols+Outlined:opsz,wght,FILL,GRAD@48,400,0,0
kevin.vanzonneveld.net	-	http://kevin.vanzonneveld.net
github.com	/Theodeus/tuna/wiki	https://github.com/Theodeus/tuna/wiki
fonts.googleapis.com	/css2	https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Roboto:ital,wght@0,300;1,400&display=swap
reactjs.org	/docs/error-decoder.html	https://reactjs.org/docs/error-decoder.html?invariant=
www.w3.org	/1999/xlink	http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink

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2.0 out of 5 · 2 most recent reviews

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I thought you could tune the sound, but it doesn’t work! He reduced to a minimum all the settings and the result 0, no changes are heard at all!

Terrible Psichozov·21 Jun 2023

I wanted the functionality from screenshot, not only eq, but there is only eq. Don't like the scam, hope for the best of this extension in the future

Arttmptt·21 Apr 2023

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Security Alert: Confirmed Malware

Sound Equaliser

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