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birthday-cake-chef.exe

The application birthday-cake-chef.exe has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 3 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the Inno Setup installer, however the file is not signed with an authenticode signature from a trusted source. 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.
MD5:
0e6325e4ff8bf4581790975cb9e151b3

SHA-1:
d62a9915040ae8003a559c607f795101aab9b877

SHA-256:
fff948e4a4b533a9df3f87fea8349a61c3fa6609391d204397a05404d7837c3b

Scanner detections:
3 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

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

Analysis date:
12/25/2024 4:11:35 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

ESET NOD32
Win32/InstallCore.BX potentially unwanted application
6.3

F-Prot
W32/InstallCore.R.gen
4.6.5.141

Reason Heuristics
PUP.FusionCore.ICDP (L)
16.12.5.2

File size:
586.8 KB (600,928 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
Inno Setup

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

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=l9tbn9kfeqnhd7b1k16ledi1j5&SKIP_ALL=false&UNINSTALL=false&DOP=2&typ=http://.../ty.php

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