cheat engine from qmaks installer.exe

OOO

The application cheat engine from qmaks installer.exe by OOO has been detected as adware by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. This is a self-extracting archive and installer and has been known to bundle potentially unwanted software. The file has been seen being downloaded from food-power-ancient.ru.
Publisher:
OOO   (signed and verified)

MD5:
3b6af008e775af0e5d3040cbeadbabe6

SHA-1:
fdb3ed11639fae41bd420a72e6e207ade4ee3bbd

SHA-256:
63c04a183edbf0d7092d19a095319aea6cabba0b50b17fa8c3d46ddfead80253

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Adware

Note:
Our current pool of anti-malware engines have not currently detected this file, however based on our own detection heuristics we feel that this file is unwanted.

Analysis date:
12/29/2024 7:27:20 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP (M)
17.2.2.23

File size:
805 KB (824,296 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\cheat engine from qmaks installer.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:

Authority:
COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:
5/12/2016 5:00:00 AM

Valid to:
5/13/2017 4:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN="OOO ""S-Mikro""", O="OOO ""S-Mikro""", STREET="Baykalskaya, 239", L=Irkutsk, S=Irkutskaya obl., PostalCode=664075, C=RU

Issuer:
CN=COMODO RSA Code Signing CA, O=COMODO CA Limited, L=Salford, S=Greater Manchester, C=GB

Serial number:
780AFB7B96A04369CC5DAF74F25FAC62

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
6/15/2016 3:36:50 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

Entry address:
0x1640

Entry point:
55, 8B, EC, 6A, FF, 68, F0, 89, 42, 00, 68, D8, 48, 40, 00, 64, A1, 00, 00, 00, 00, 50, 64, 89, 25, 00, 00, 00, 00, 83, C4, A4, 53, 56, 57, 89, 65, E8, FF, 15, 50, D0, 40, 00, A3, FC, F0, 4B, 00, A1, FC, F0, 4B, 00, C1, E8, 08, 25, FF, 00, 00, 00, A3, 08, F1, 4B, 00, 8B, 0D, FC, F0, 4B, 00, 81, E1, FF, 00, 00, 00, 89, 0D, 04, F1, 4B, 00, 8B, 15, 04, F1, 4B, 00, C1, E2, 08, 03, 15, 08, F1, 4B, 00, 89, 15, 00, F1, 4B, 00, A1, FC, F0, 4B, 00, C1, E8, 10, 25, FF, FF, 00, 00, A3, FC, F0, 4B, 00, 6A, 01, E8, CD...
 
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Developed / compiled with:
Microsoft Visual C++

Code size:
48 KB (49,152 bytes)

The file cheat engine from qmaks installer.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

http://food-power-ancient.ru/MTExNTk7aHR0cCUzQSUyRiUyRm1lZGlhZGlzay5uZXQlMkYlMjE5YjYyYjkzZjIyYWUwYzhmMGM4NDI2ODZkODBjZjA1NmYxNzYxYWZlYmQ1MjkwNjBjMTk4MTJjZmQ3YjM3MzI5O25hbWU9Q2hlYXQrRW5naW5lK2Zyb20rUW1ha3MrSW5zdGFsbGVyLmV4ZTtzaXplPTMyNTY0NTt0eXBlPWFyY2hpdmU7dXRtPWV5SnpiM1Z5WTJVaU9pSXhORGs0TnlJc0ltMWxaR2wxYlNJNklpSXNJbU5oYlhCaGFXZHVJam9pSWl3aWRHVnliU0k2SWlJc0ltTnZiblJsYm5RaU9pSWlmUT09O3JlYWxfcmVmZXJlcj07Zm9yY2VfZmlsZT10cnVl

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