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Cheat Engine 5.5

Dark Byte

The executable cheat.exe, “Cheat Engine 5.5 Setup ” has been detected as malware by 16 anti-virus 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 file has been seen being downloaded from www.heijnen1.demon.nl and multiple other hosts.
Publisher:
Dark Byte

Product:
Cheat Engine 5.5

Description:
Cheat Engine 5.5 Setup

MD5:
d307d08783b8301373f7a6130841c1fe

SHA-1:
a672adeb78277354b685d0d2e21604e7ebc8f497

SHA-256:
4d683683f97dc50dff96089f6980b7129d5df17416baec0e8ba9a221dfd36f98

Scanner detections:
16 / 68

Status:
Malware

Analysis date:
12/24/2024 5:07:15 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Agnitum Outpost
HackTool.CheatEngine
7.1.1

Avira AntiVirus
SPR/SystemCall.AA.21
7.11.138.220

AVG
Worm/Generic2
2015.0.3479

Baidu Antivirus
HackTool.Win32.SystemCall
4.0.3.14510

Dr.Web
Trojan.NtRootKit.12823
9.0.1.0130

ESET NOD32
Win32/HackTool.CheatEngine.AA (variant)
8.9593

Fortinet FortiGate
Riskware/CheatEngine
5/10/2014

F-Prot
W32/MalwareF.JLIY
v6.4.7.1.166

K7 AntiVirus
Hacktool
13.176.11554

McAfee
Artemis!D307D08783B8
5600.7135

NANO AntiVirus
Trojan.Win32.Pigeon.ldbbo
0.28.0.58720

Norman
Suspicious_Gen2.KEPUG
11.20140510

Rising Antivirus
PE:Trojan.Win32.Generic.12448BCE!306482126
23.00.65.14508

Sophos
CheatEngine
4.98

Vba32 AntiVirus
Worm.AutoRun
3.12.24.3

VIPRE Antivirus
Trojan.Win32.Generic
27736

File size:
3.8 MB (4,026,378 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
Inno Setup

Language:
Language Neutral

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
6/20/1992 1:22:17 AM

OS version:
1.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.25

CTPH (ssdeep):
98304:CxYM4lBkq3yKc96hUXUJrkehIkbxundU8b1dT0yv1eQxf:rM073/hwmIehZay8b1dbUQ9

Entry address:
0x9B24

Entry point:
55, 8B, EC, 83, C4, C4, 53, 56, 57, 33, C0, 89, 45, F0, 89, 45, DC, E8, A2, 95, FF, FF, E8, A9, A7, FF, FF, E8, D4, C9, FF, FF, E8, 1B, CA, FF, FF, E8, 0E, F3, FF, FF, E8, 75, F4, FF, FF, 33, C0, 55, 68, DB, A1, 40, 00, 64, FF, 30, 64, 89, 20, 33, D2, 55, 68, A4, A1, 40, 00, 64, FF, 32, 64, 89, 22, A1, 14, C0, 40, 00, E8, 9B, FE, FF, FF, E8, 02, FA, FF, FF, 8D, 55, F0, 33, C0, E8, 04, D0, FF, FF, 8B, 55, F0, B8, E8, CD, 40, 00, E8, 53, 96, FF, FF, 6A, 02, 6A, 00, 6A, 01, 8B, 0D, E8, CD, 40, 00, B2, 01, B8...
 
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Packer / compiler:
Inno Setup v5.x - Installer Maker

Code size:
37 KB (37,888 bytes)

The file cheat.exe has been seen being distributed by the following 2 URLs.

http://www.heijnen1.demon.nl/CheatEngine55.exe

http://cheatengine.org/.../CheatEngine55.exe

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