hair-stylist.exe

Sweet Gamer LLC

The application hair-stylist.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:
460b8f17c9e87d4f8102475f090538f3

SHA-1:
00fbc609e17dae80cdaec0cc5886e9f6fbdc00cb

SHA-256:
207443c2c648a650142bd16467d4dfee8178f90ccab52eff6a42f0349379eb92

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 2:50:37 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

avast!
Win32:InstallCore-GD [PUP]
160708-3

Emsisoft Anti-Malware
Gen:Variant.Strictor.101483
11.5.0.6191

ESET NOD32
Win32/InstallCore.AW potentially unwanted application
8.0.319.0

F-Prot
W32/InstallCore.P.gen
4.6.5.141

Reason Heuristics
PUP.installCore.SweetGam (M)
16.7.14.22

VIPRE Antivirus
Threat.4835495
50516

File size:
1 MB (1,092,440 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\hair-stylist.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:

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 3:22:17 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.25

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:AjmHiuPCd9bFYwbdF278BGwL+xC8EuE2aW6NZ:YoEhbdFRBGwLGCvufD6N

Entry address:
0xCAB80

Entry point:
55, 8B, EC, 83, C4, F0, B8, 9C, 44, 40, 00, E8, 1E, E8, FF, FF, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, C0, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 46, 74, 11, 40, 00, 08, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, EC, 11, 40, 00, 80, 11, 40, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, EC, 11, 40, 00, 0C, 00, 00, 00, B0, 10, 40, 00, 60, 37, 40, 00, 20, 60, 40, 00, 2C, 60, 40, 00, 74, 37, 40, 00, 68, 37, 40, 00, 3C, 60, 40, 00, CC, 34, 40, 00, 08, 35, 40, 00, 11, 54, 49, 6E, 74, 65, 72...
 
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Entropy:
6.9319

Developed / compiled with:
Microsoft Visual C++

Code size:
828 KB (847,872 bytes)

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