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alienstrike.exe

Gamehitzone Inc.

The application alienstrike.exe by Gamehitzone has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. This is a setup program which is used to install the application. The file has been seen being downloaded from www.gamehitzone.com and multiple other hosts.
Publisher:
GameHitZone.com   (signed by Gamehitzone Inc.)

MD5:
9684567b5f94c81a52211fb7298a0a29

SHA-1:
7ecd84aad83d0f17583dec216d084e66f22ccd73

SHA-256:
889c4d59eaf8e19067aa1b57fedea5e8b635d5cf814ca9695d5467a4d50d31de

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Note:
Our current pool of anti-malware engines have not currently detected this file, however based on our own detection heuristics we feel that this file is unwanted.

Analysis date:
11/8/2024 8:39:47 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Gamehitzone.Installer (M)
15.6.30.20

File size:
37.9 MB (39,724,312 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
Language Neutral

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\alienstrike.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Gamehitzone Inc.

Authority:
GlobalSign nv-sa

Valid from:
10/3/2014 12:33:05 PM

Valid to:
1/3/2018 1:33:05 PM

Subject:
E=abuse@gamehitzone.com, CN=Gamehitzone Inc., O=Gamehitzone Inc., L=Belize City, S=Belize, C=BZ

Issuer:
CN=GlobalSign CodeSigning CA - SHA256 - G2, O=GlobalSign nv-sa, C=BE

Serial number:
11212DA109C716E14D8F300F2D8DD9ACEBA0

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
10/13/2013 5:19:32 AM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.25

CTPH (ssdeep):
786432:DP1In2fRFEcZuC2DFHHyB2OgvXtpuM328ZoT5+b42XZmL50:DP42QSuCLkOUtpB28Zo1elJmi

Entry address:
0x113BC

Entry point:
55, 8B, EC, 83, C4, A4, 53, 56, 57, 33, C0, 89, 45, C4, 89, 45, C0, 89, 45, A4, 89, 45, D0, 89, 45, C8, 89, 45, CC, 89, 45, D4, 89, 45, D8, 89, 45, EC, B8, 2C, 00, 41, 00, E8, E8, 51, FF, FF, 33, C0, 55, 68, 9E, 1A, 41, 00, 64, FF, 30, 64, 89, 20, 33, D2, 55, 68, 5A, 1A, 41, 00, 64, FF, 32, 64, 89, 22, A1, 48, 5B, 41, 00, E8, 16, D8, FF, FF, E8, 65, D3, FF, FF, 80, 3D, DC, 2A, 41, 00, 00, 74, 0C, E8, 2B, D9, FF, FF, 33, C0, E8, 80, 32, FF, FF, 8D, 55, EC, 33, C0, E8, E2, A3, FF, FF, 8B, 55, EC, B8, 50, 86...
 
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Developed / compiled with:
Microsoft Visual C++

Code size:
63.5 KB (65,024 bytes)

The file alienstrike.exe has been seen being distributed by the following 5 URLs.

http://www.gamehitzone.com/.../AlienStrike.exe

http://gsf-cf.softonic.com/7ec/d84/.../AlienStrike.exe

http://cdn.gamehitzone.com/AlienStrike.exe

http://www.gamehitzone.com/.../alien-strike-downloader.exe

http://alien-strike.soft32.com/get/file/id/.../?no_download_manager=true

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