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cheatengine56.exe

Cheat Engine 5.6

Dark Byte

The application cheatengine56.exe, “Cheat Engine 5.6 Setup ” has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 11 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 installer uses the OpenCandy monitzation platform which will donwload and install offers in the setup for potentially unwanted software including ad/search-supported toolbars.
Publisher:
Dark Byte

Product:
Cheat Engine 5.6

Description:
Cheat Engine 5.6 Setup

MD5:
89c1ae5084c1823e5472b648f84dc2d5

SHA-1:
835ec5df8a94ce579a0c0d28a4bf079f7d6981f6

SHA-256:
ac5e2574a4901613aadeac95e07a6e90d971f6a17c7e23c9c4ba6d8fcff5db24

Scanner detections:
11 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Explanation:
Packages the OpenCandy software bundler that offers to install additional software and may include web browser add-ons and toolbars which display advertising (based on publisher settings and geo context).

Analysis date:
12/24/2024 5:13:19 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Agnitum Outpost
Riskware.HackTool
7.1.1

Avira AntiVirus
Adware/OpenCandy.A.209
7.11.152.4

Baidu Antivirus
Hacktool.Win32.SystemCall
4.0.3.14713

Bkav FE
W32.Clodd63.Trojan
1.3.0.4959

ESET NOD32
Win32/OpenCandy
8.9864

McAfee
Artemis!89C1AE5084C1
5600.7070

Norman
Obfuscated_I
11.20140713

Quick Heal
Adware.OpenCandy (Not a Virus)
7.14.14.00

Sophos
OpenCandy
4.98

Vba32 AntiVirus
TrojanPSW.Agent
3.12.26.0

VIPRE Antivirus
Trojan.Win32.Generic
29724

File size:
4.1 MB (4,252,986 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
Inno Setup

Language:
Language Neutral

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\cheatengine56.exe

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

OS version:
1.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.25

CTPH (ssdeep):
98304:eajZZLoefWWJyYH96h+kehIkbxu9cxs0O46uKnb1dstVuBLFBc:tR8htehZk1dsnuBLFBc

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, EC, CD, 40, 00, E8, 53, 96, FF, FF, 6A, 02, 6A, 00, 6A, 01, 8B, 0D, EC, CD, 40, 00, B2, 01, B8...
 
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Entropy:
7.9983

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

Code size:
37 KB (37,888 bytes)

The file cheatengine56.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

http://cheatengine.org/.../CheatEngine56.exe

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