ares_galaxy_professional_free.exe

Ares Galaxy Professional

Prospera Software, Inc.

The application ares_galaxy_professional_free.exe by Prospera Software has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 3 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) installer. The file has been seen being downloaded from www.aresgalaxyonline.com.
Publisher:
AresGalaxyOnline LLC  (signed by Prospera Software, Inc.)

Product:
Ares Galaxy Professional

Version:
5.5.0.0

MD5:
5445756379273c372d453d14c4601cd4

SHA-1:
cb6074f528ddc28b1cd678db81498574ee7ee15f

SHA-256:
d7f3161be419a62063b4432da6fa5b0d8330014393b40e0c420eda7448901711

Scanner detections:
3 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Analysis date:
4/17/2025 11:40:12 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

AVG
Generic
2016.0.3103

ESET NOD32
Win32/DownWare.L potentially unwanted application
7.0.302.0

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Installer.ProsperaSoftware
15.5.20.11

File size:
13.7 MB (14,364,344 bytes)

Copyright:
� AresGalaxyOnline LLC

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)

Language:
English (United States)

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

Digital Signature
Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
3/2/2014 7:00:00 PM

Valid to:
6/2/2015 7:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN="Prospera Software, Inc.", OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O="Prospera Software, Inc.", L=Suwanee, S=Georgia, 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:
546C3D8AF79CD0909C4F8A5A97399E3C

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
2/24/2012 2:19:59 PM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
10.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
393216:isgQpFz9rvKk55dG86iqM1TBqE6B4tMQHzsirKa:Hpt9Lt5K86k1TBqj4t7HIU

Entry address:
0x39E3

Entry point:
81, EC, D4, 02, 00, 00, 53, 55, 56, 57, 6A, 20, 33, ED, 5E, 89, 6C, 24, 18, C7, 44, 24, 10, D8, 91, 40, 00, 89, 6C, 24, 14, FF, 15, 30, 80, 40, 00, 68, 01, 80, 00, 00, FF, 15, B8, 80, 40, 00, 55, FF, 15, C0, 82, 40, 00, 6A, 08, A3, B8, 2E, 47, 00, E8, 37, 2A, 00, 00, 55, 68, B4, 02, 00, 00, A3, D0, 2D, 47, 00, 8D, 44, 24, 38, 50, 55, 68, 1C, 93, 40, 00, FF, 15, 84, 81, 40, 00, 68, 04, 93, 40, 00, 68, C0, AD, 46, 00, E8, 19, 27, 00, 00, FF, 15, B4, 80, 40, 00, 50, BF, A0, 30, 4C, 00, 57, E8, 07, 27, 00, 00...
 
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Entropy:
7.9980

Packer / compiler:
Nullsoft install system v2.x

Code size:
28 KB (28,672 bytes)

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