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arcadecandyupdate.exe

Arcade Candy

The application arcadecandyupdate.exe by Arcade Candy has been detected as adware by 3 anti-malware scanners. It is also typically executed from an Internet Explorer cache folder. The file has been seen being downloaded from d1.arcadecandy.com.
Publisher:
Arcade Candy  (signed and verified)

MD5:
334d8b8d13c3a673a970e6f9f343e634

SHA-1:
47413f03fd922b4abfa31e70426e633f6bbe9d95

SHA-256:
a2dcb295ffc2abbe85374e563cc8ffe1d61cffe51bcae019420c21f6686c30d5

Scanner detections:
3 / 68

Status:
Adware

Analysis date:
2/26/2025 7:09:54 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Norman
ArcadeCandy.A
11.20140728

Reason Heuristics
PUP.ArcadeCandy.R
14.7.31.23

VIPRE Antivirus
GameVance
30948

File size:
227.7 KB (233,128 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\microsoft\windows\temporary internet files\content.ie5\{random}\arcadecandyupdate.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Arcade Candy

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
2/14/2013 7:00:00 PM

Valid to:
4/16/2014 7:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Arcade Candy, OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O=Arcade Candy, L=Irvine, S=California, C=US

Issuer:
CN=VeriSign Class 3 Code Signing 2010 CA, OU=Terms of use at https://www.verisign.com/rpa (c)10, OU=VeriSign Trust Network, O="VeriSign, Inc.", C=US

Serial number:
798313D6E0E88E3C9A4F20DA27DC5534

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
7/3/2013 4:50:02 AM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
10.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
3072:P2ByGUajobNolCwdF1fV09quZH7RC0/3LNz55DfntDEp:+ByGNobNo71mzR9/3LBrnWp

Entry address:
0x4E97

Entry point:
E8, 13, 3A, 00, 00, E9, 89, FE, FF, FF, 6A, 0C, 68, 80, F9, 40, 00, E8, 13, 38, 00, 00, 6A, 0E, E8, 10, 3C, 00, 00, 59, 83, 65, FC, 00, 8B, 75, 08, 8B, 4E, 04, 85, C9, 74, 2F, A1, 04, 29, 41, 00, BA, 00, 29, 41, 00, 89, 45, E4, 85, C0, 74, 11, 39, 08, 75, 2C, 8B, 48, 04, 89, 4A, 04, 50, E8, 87, F5, FF, FF, 59, FF, 76, 04, E8, 7E, F5, FF, FF, 59, 83, 66, 04, 00, C7, 45, FC, FE, FF, FF, FF, E8, 0A, 00, 00, 00, E8, 02, 38, 00, 00, C3, 8B, D0, EB, C5, 6A, 0E, E8, DC, 3A, 00, 00, 59, C3, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC...
 
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Entropy:
6.2569

Code size:
45.5 KB (46,592 bytes)

The file arcadecandyupdate.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

http://d1.arcadecandy.com/update/.../ArcadeCandyUpdate.exe

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