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birds-hunter.exe

Play Turtle, LLC

The application birds-hunter.exe by Play Turtle has been detected as adware by 8 anti-malware scanners. This is a setup program which is used to install the application. It uses the InstallCore engine which may bundle additional software offers including toolbars and browser extensions. The file has been seen being downloaded from installerlaunch-pp1.com.
Publisher:
Play Turtle, LLC  (signed and verified)

MD5:
9c5da98bc0c68448f92396f2f95fc1a1

SHA-1:
5a54ee15ecc4cc0261b90c268fb7ce13d2c0bddf

SHA-256:
df054ad452f07df80471e892c575c94dccb621f2f0bc5e1444341fe12ac7a1ea

Scanner detections:
8 / 68

Status:
Adware

Explanation:
Uses the InstallCore download manager to install additional potentially unwanted software which may include extensions such as DealPly and various toolbars.

Analysis date:
12/26/2024 7:47:05 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

avast!
Win32:Adware-gen [Adw]
160327-1

AVG
Adware InstallCore.LW
2015.0.4568

Dr.Web
Adware.InstallCore.22
9.0.1.05190

Emsisoft Anti-Malware
Application.InstallCore.AQ
11.5.0.6191

ESET NOD32
Win32/InstallCore.BP potentially unwanted application
8.0.319.0

F-Secure
Riskware.Application.InstallCore.AQ
5.15.21

Norman
Application.InstallCore.AQ
10.04.2016 15:29:17

Reason Heuristics
PUP.EpicPlay.PlayTurt (M)
16.5.16.6

File size:
521.1 KB (533,632 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\birds-hunter.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Play Turtle, LLC

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
12/10/2011 12:00:00 AM

Valid to:
12/9/2012 11:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN="Play Turtle, LLC", OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O="Play Turtle, LLC", L=Plantation, S=Florida, 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:
1FBA05C4A16403C30CAF42A3523B1862

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
6/19/1992 6:22:17 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.25

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:yUjvK/Y9bVy6eL1TptQydOdEnQdFg45pdnXvLf0vHUkl4nirzYvVj:1rVReLrOdEmC2970v0kl4ngON

Entry address:
0x106F10

Entry point:
60, BE, 00, 00, 49, 00, 8D, BE, 00, 10, F7, FF, C7, 87, 10, 77, 0C, 00, 47, 72, 3B, 23, 57, 83, CD, FF, EB, 0E, 90, 90, 90, 90, 8A, 06, 46, 88, 07, 47, 01, DB, 75, 07, 8B, 1E, 83, EE, FC, 11, DB, 72, ED, B8, 01, 00, 00, 00, 01, DB, 75, 07, 8B, 1E, 83, EE, FC, 11, DB, 11, C0, 01, DB, 73, 0B, 75, 28, 8B, 1E, 83, EE, FC, 11, DB, 72, 1F, 48, 01, DB, 75, 07, 8B, 1E, 83, EE, FC, 11, DB, 11, C0, EB, D4, 01, DB, 75, 07, 8B, 1E, 83, EE, FC, 11, DB, 11, C9, EB, 52, 31, C9, 83, E8, 03, 72, 11, C1, E0, 08, 8A, 06, 46...
 
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Entropy:
7.8482

Packer / compiler:
UPX v0.89.6 - v1.02 / v1.05 -v1.22 (Delphi) stub

Code size:
480 KB (491,520 bytes)

The file birds-hunter.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

http://installerlaunch-pp1.com/.../pp-icore-5.2.exe&dn=birds-hunter.exe&sid=3651-KMG2&pid=pp-ic-b&browser=ch&ptrk=aobsfavupll517u01o0j7oesq1

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