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chocolate-shop.exe

Sweet Gamer LLC

The application chocolate-shop.exe by Sweet Gamer has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 7 anti-malware scanners. It uses the InstallCore engine which may bundle additional software offers including toolbars and browser extensions. The file has been seen being downloaded from installerlaunch-gn1.com.
Publisher:
Sweet Gamer LLC  (signed and verified)

MD5:
078abac5f1f0d5fb4b34c503bbb56bd5

SHA-1:
18703c45c9d293894775e5e2209afe49913801ed

SHA-256:
a693f616c32c422ee5b584460db50a78ffd3320d2ca83e61b0f0460313043941

Scanner detections:
7 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Explanation:
Uses the InstallCore download manager to install additional potentially unwanted software which may include extensions such as DealPly and various toolbars.

Analysis date:
11/5/2024 2:32:56 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

avast!
Win32:InstallCore-GD [PUP]
160518-2

AVG
Adware InstallCore.AII
2015.0.4591

Dr.Web
Adware.InstallCore.40
9.0.1.05190

Emsisoft Anti-Malware
Gen:Variant.Adware.Strictor.18590
11.5.0.6191

ESET NOD32
Win32/InstallCore.AG potentially unwanted application
8.0.319.0

F-Prot
W32/InstallCore.V2.gen
4.6.5.141

Reason Heuristics
PUP.installCore.SweetGam (M)
16.6.23.8

File size:
1 MB (1,065,816 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\chocolate-shop.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Sweet Gamer LLC

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
12/11/2011 12:00:00 AM

Valid to:
12/10/2012 11:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Sweet Gamer LLC, OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O=Sweet Gamer LLC, L=Sunrise, S=Florida, C=US

Issuer:
CN=VeriSign Class 3 Code Signing 2010 CA, OU=Terms of use at https://www.verisign.com/rpa (c)10, OU=VeriSign Trust Network, O="VeriSign, Inc.", C=US

Serial number:
4621306F285D000FDDD0445E05FEEF1E

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
6/19/1992 5:22:17 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.25

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:iJEj04ZJgdzt2erx/TiXHJ5Zdhu0UjuSy4WTvVkiVS87ZxPvue4c82Wz6/IKLvbq:iipZcz5T+HJ/ijfW9DEzcLv0ytmEvqd

Entry address:
0xC2240

Entry point:
55, 8B, EC, 83, C4, F0, B8, 50, 5F, 40, 00, E8, 19, E9, FF, FF, C8, 02, 89, 03, 8B, C3, 83, C0, 04, E8, 9C, F7, FF, FF, E9, FE, 00, 00, 00, 8B, F7, E9, F7, 00, 00, 00, 8B, C6, 2B, C7, 89, 44, 24, 04, 3B, 1D, 18, 46, 46, 00, 75, 67, A1, 14, 46, 46, 00, 3B, 44, 24, 04, 7C, 53, 8B, 44, 24, 04, 29, 05, 14, 46, 46, 00, 8B, 44, 24, 04, 01, 05, 18, 46, 46, 00, 83, 3D, 14, 46, 46, 00, 0C, 7D, 18, A1, 14, 46, 46, 00, 01, 05, 18, 46, 46, 00, 03, 35, 14, 46, 46, 00, 33, C0, A3, 14, 46, 46, 00, 8B, C6, 2B, C7, 01, 05...
 
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Entropy:
6.9523

Developed / compiled with:
Microsoft Visual C++

Code size:
786.5 KB (805,376 bytes)

The file chocolate-shop.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

http://installerlaunch-gn1.com/.../GameNutt-iCore.exe&dn=chocolate-shop.exe&sid=1579-KMG-5.6&pid=gn-ic-5.6&browser=ch&ptrk=8l555t8q0oo4laheajbd457u12

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