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Cheat Engine 6.5

Cheat Engine

The application cheatengine65.exe, “Cheat Engine 6.5 Setup ” by Cheat Engine 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. 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. The file has been seen being downloaded from www.netzwelt.de and multiple other hosts.
Publisher:
Cheat Engine   (signed by Cheat Engine)

Product:
Cheat Engine 6.5

Description:
Cheat Engine 6.5 Setup

Version:
6.5.0.0

MD5:
ea6cb73df961d5266fff2d57b8d31e55

SHA-1:
86b333fc2fb575bc3e3f0ae1897a380658325bbb

SHA-256:
7e2a0bd83366310138184bead46759f3912561546df63ec6255c10ecfa83894f

Scanner detections:
3 / 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:
12/26/2024 11:08:01 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Dr.Web
Threat.Undefined
9.0.1.05190

ESET NOD32
Win32/OpenCandy.A potentially unsafe application
7.0.302.0

Reason Heuristics
PUP.OpenCandy.Bundle (M)
16.4.15.17

File size:
10.3 MB (10,837,496 bytes)

Product version:
6.5.0.0

Copyright:
Cheat Engine

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
Inno Setup

Language:
Language Neutral

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\cheatengine65.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Cheat Engine

Authority:
GlobalSign nv-sa

Valid from:
7/21/2015 10:34:23 AM

Valid to:
9/21/2016 7:08:43 AM

Subject:
E=dark_byte@hotmail.com, CN=Cheat Engine, O=Cheat Engine, L=Eindhoven, C=NL

Issuer:
CN=GlobalSign CodeSigning CA - G2, O=GlobalSign nv-sa, C=BE

Serial number:
11216ED7C0BCCC414E44B35150DE3AB6F99D

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):
196608:hH3Z1Pvv79zsLHNCMp3pNRUBSCwBp8ooAU/xqDVtmWEcU:hX3nvxKHNCK6BPCp8ooAUZ0VtBE

Entry address:
0xA5F8

Entry point:
55, 8B, EC, 83, C4, C4, 53, 56, 57, 33, C0, 89, 45, F0, 89, 45, DC, E8, CE, 8A, FF, FF, E8, D5, 9C, FF, FF, E8, 64, 9F, FF, FF, E8, 07, A0, FF, FF, E8, A6, BF, FF, FF, E8, 11, E9, FF, FF, E8, 78, EA, FF, FF, 33, C0, 55, 68, C9, AC, 40, 00, 64, FF, 30, 64, 89, 20, 33, D2, 55, 68, 92, AC, 40, 00, 64, FF, 32, 64, 89, 22, A1, 14, C0, 40, 00, E8, 26, F5, FF, FF, E8, 11, F1, FF, FF, 80, 3D, 34, B2, 40, 00, 00, 74, 0C, E8, 23, F6, FF, FF, 33, C0, E8, C4, 97, FF, FF, 8D, 55, F0, 33, C0, E8, B6, C5, FF, FF, 8B, 55...
 
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Entropy:
7.9997

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

Code size:
39.5 KB (40,448 bytes)

The file cheatengine65.exe has been seen being distributed by the following 21 URLs.

http://www.netzwelt.de/.../25930_2-cheat-engine.html?sig=7c9d6e2b49bb5db55151883bf94eab6d

http://download1468.mediafire.com/f1hb1xdakwug/.../Cheat Engine 6.5.exe

temp:CheatEngine65-1.exe

http://download1385.mediafire.com/rh5rqvct6gyg/.../Cheat Engine 6.5.exe

http://download1342.mediafire.com/928kkhldh8mg/.../Cheat Engine 6.5.exe

http://download808.mediafire.com/8a0xaaxf7hwg/.../Cheat Engine 6.5.exe

https://onedrive.live.com/download.aspx?cid=82C4FF7DD5D21957&authKey=!AGutM4rZua9GnU0&resid=82C4FF7DD5D21957!2103&ithint=.exe

http://download1342.mediafire.com/avl5sfelcsgg/.../EuPlayerBRCheatEngine6.5.exe

http://www.netzwelt.de/.../25930_2-cheat-engine.html?sig=b72a564028ccf1910b2474c84e15ca88

https://docviewer.yandex.ua/source?id=6g4su-j1qmqi0jxl96xzvil218vgghyx4bx69deowyc5e0rxi73xyy21q847q0j7ickqr7decbdqgnb2neuhc309tgiz8m0px2z2u4olr&archive-path=//CheatEngine65.exe&ts=155789d4511&token=SKKxSbpvPdYZFJ5CEShYaA==&name=CheatEngine65.rar

http://www.netzwelt.de/.../25930_2-cheat-engine.html?sig=469be20c8ec850299318f2d4578c05aa

temp:CheatEngine65.exe

https://mega.nz/temporary/.../zlwFlKyb

http://download2060.mediafire.com/42bbm72xy4zg/.../EuPlayerBRCheatEngine6.5.exe

http://r2.computerbild.de/exec/r2r.pl?m=w-cobi;u=http://d.computerbild.de/downloads/.../CheatEngine65.exe

http://d.computerbild.de/downloads/.../CheatEngine65.exe

http://dl.cdn.chip.de/downloads/.../CheatEngine65.exe

https://github.com/cheat-engine/cheat-engine/releases/download/.../CheatEngine65.exe

https://github-cloud.s3.amazonaws.com/releases/.../9c4d991c-affb-11e5-8692-0e614aac91df.exe

http://mirror2.cheatengine.org/download/.../CheatEngine65.exe

http://mirror3.cheatengine.org/download/.../CheatEngine65.exe

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