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birthday-cake-chef.exe

Fearless Arcade LLC

The installer utilizes the installCore download manager which may bundle additional offers for various ad-supported toolbars, extensions and utilities. The application birthday-cake-chef.exe by Fearless Arcade has been detected as adware by 3 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the installCore installer. The setup program uses the InstallCore engine which may bundle additional software offers including toolbars and browser extensions. The file has been seen being downloaded from installerlaunch-mtfg2.com.
Publisher:
Fearless Arcade LLC  (signed and verified)

MD5:
1b08c4bc3d522bde0a8f3e18a7f34352

SHA-1:
2ca1108ff1ec4dd7c1c8cc6dd93ee803e65aee0f

SHA-256:
f6558f030a5d2d4bb964cb3db4fdf16e1b4068fdc01ade3438b1fa70e3fe9f7b

Scanner detections:
3 / 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.

Description:
This 'download manager' is also considered bundleware, a utility designed to download software (possibly legitimate or opensource) and bundle it with a number of optional offers including ad-supported utilities, toolbars, shopping comparison tools and browser extensions.

Analysis date:
12/25/2024 4:11:43 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

ESET NOD32
Win32/InstallCore.BX potentially unwanted application
8.0.319.0

F-Prot
W32/InstallCore.R.gen
4.6.5.141

Reason Heuristics
PUP.installCore.Fearless (M)
16.7.16.21

File size:
586.8 KB (600,928 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
installCore (using Inno Setup)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\birthday-cake-chef.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Fearless Arcade LLC

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
12/10/2012 12:00:00 AM

Valid to:
1/6/2015 11:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Fearless Arcade LLC, OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O=Fearless Arcade LLC, L=Weston, 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:
0FD5F88065F2AABD1E093909A1080D3B

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
6/19/1992 5:22:17 PM

OS version:
1.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.25

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:DNJfs00jplKBCWYvXP79xRfoowD6qRAbSReB36kZlwSz:JJfs1NlKBC9/Ffop9AoeMkZRz

Entry address:
0x98CC

Entry point:
55, 8B, EC, 83, C4, CC, 53, 56, 57, 33, C0, 89, 45, F0, 89, 45, DC, E8, FA, 97, FF, FF, E8, 01, AA, FF, FF, E8, 2C, CC, FF, FF, E8, 73, CC, FF, FF, E8, 0A, F3, FF, FF, E8, 71, F4, FF, FF, 33, C0, 55, 68, 76, 9F, 40, 00, 64, FF, 30, 64, 89, 20, 33, D2, 55, 68, 2C, 9F, 40, 00, 64, FF, 32, 64, 89, 22, A1, 14, B0, 40, 00, E8, 9B, FE, FF, FF, E8, 26, FA, FF, FF, 8D, 55, F0, 33, C0, E8, E0, D0, FF, FF, 8B, 55, F0, B8, D8, BD, 40, 00, E8, AB, 98, FF, FF, 6A, 02, 6A, 00, 6A, 01, 8B, 0D, D8, BD, 40, 00, B2, 01, B8...
 
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Entropy:
7.7998

Packer / compiler:
Inno Setup v5.x - Installer Maker

Code size:
36 KB (36,864 bytes)

The file birthday-cake-chef.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

http://installerlaunch-mtfg2.com/index.php?dl=download.installerlaunch-mtfg2.com/mtfg_8294.exe&dn=birthday-cake-chef.exe&sid=4721-v1&pid=1285&browser=chrome&ptrk=kplq5rndcns6rihpid9nb5b443&SKIP_ALL=false&UNINSTALL=false&DOP=2&typ=http://.../ty.php

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