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cheatengine62.exe

Cheat Engine 6.2

Dark Byte

The application cheatengine62.exe, “Cheat Engine 6.2 Setup ” has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 7 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 6.2

Description:
Cheat Engine 6.2 Setup

MD5:
5e3e0b8143f0961ebf315487cb2328d9

SHA-1:
a1c67580695a090269c5f1aa116b37e2d005ef7b

SHA-256:
09d6e83d506c6c47b00b936aa6d8bc07cda83e704be82bafdb78739b1ed9ef7d

Scanner detections:
7 / 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 5:34:45 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Baidu Antivirus
Trojan.Win32.Agent
4.0.3.1416

Bkav FE
W32.Clod3f0.Trojan
1.3.0.4613

ESET NOD32
Win32/OpenCandy
8.9307

IKARUS anti.virus
HackTool.Linux.CEngi
t3scan.2.2.29

K7 AntiVirus
Trojan
13.175.10881

McAfee
Artemis!5E3E0B8143F0
5600.7259

NANO AntiVirus
Trojan.Win32.CheatEngine.xrokk
0.28.0.57029

File size:
6.8 MB (7,159,153 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
Inno Setup

Language:
Language Neutral

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\cheatengine62.exe

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
6/20/1992 12:22:17 AM

OS version:
1.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.25

CTPH (ssdeep):
98304:QlFFXPfwNANfP+3cpfujfAPtc0dNaAZiksWIW6+C7k0VrvDl0odrrf2g14WBeCMt:c1gq+s54u5d4AZi9WINkEl1dugWmtWB

Entry address:
0x9C40

Entry point:
55, 8B, EC, 83, C4, C4, 53, 56, 57, 33, C0, 89, 45, F0, 89, 45, DC, E8, 86, 94, FF, FF, E8, 8D, A6, FF, FF, E8, 1C, A9, FF, FF, E8, 53, C9, FF, FF, E8, 9A, C9, FF, FF, E8, C9, F2, FF, FF, E8, 30, F4, FF, FF, 33, C0, 55, 68, FC, A2, 40, 00, 64, FF, 30, 64, 89, 20, 33, D2, 55, 68, C5, A2, 40, 00, 64, FF, 32, 64, 89, 22, A1, 14, C0, 40, 00, E8, 96, FE, FF, FF, E8, C9, FA, FF, FF, 8D, 55, F0, 33, C0, E8, 83, CF, FF, FF, 8B, 55, F0, B8, E8, CD, 40, 00, E8, 32, 95, FF, FF, 6A, 02, 6A, 00, 6A, 01, 8B, 0D, E8, CD...
 
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Packer / compiler:
Inno Setup v5.x - Installer Maker

Code size:
37 KB (37,888 bytes)

The file cheatengine62.exe has been seen being distributed by the following 2 URLs.

http://members.upc.nl/cheatengine2/.../CheatEngine62.exe

http://dl.cdn.chip.eu/downloads/.../CheatEngine62.exe

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