hair-stylist.exe

Fearless Arcade LLC

The application hair-stylist.exe by Fearless Arcade has been detected as adware by 3 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-mtfg1.com.
Publisher:
Fearless Arcade LLC  (signed and verified)

MD5:
e61e6780db908c7fe78248f37507dae3

SHA-1:
4a02296644a1ac98b0ce233eac11669b248c52fa

SHA-256:
a6e0e9f8b9564148375c09e047c020eb8dc0e0b371efcbc4472b18d832c07216

Scanner detections:
3 / 68

Status:
Adware

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

Analysis date:
11/27/2024 5:43:54 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

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.Fearless (M)
16.7.15.17

File size:
1 MB (1,071,968 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

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

Digital Signature
Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
10/4/2012 12:00:00 AM

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

Subject:
CN=Fearless Arcade LLC, OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O=Fearless Arcade LLC, L=Weston, 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:
3BF81BECB0D254ADAB778C169CA5BD6E

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:aSpMFGMO5gt+aswtColDurk/3t0bnkCKbdqK6yTlVX/H9:4FLOyew/MSd0bYD3P

Entry address:
0xCAA60

Entry point:
55, 8B, EC, 83, C4, F0, B8, E8, 8F, 40, 00, E8, 42, D3, FF, FF, E0, 61, 47, 00, 8B, C0, FF, 25, DC, 61, 47, 00, 8B, C0, FF, 25, D8, 61, 47, 00, 8B, C0, FF, 25, D4, 61, 47, 00, 8B, C0, FF, 25, D0, 61, 47, 00, 8B, C0, FF, 25, CC, 61, 47, 00, 8B, C0, FF, 25, C8, 61, 47, 00, 8B, C0, FF, 25, C4, 61, 47, 00, 8B, C0, FF, 25, C0, 61, 47, 00, 8B, C0, FF, 25, BC, 61, 47, 00, 8B, C0, FF, 25, B8, 61, 47, 00, 8B, C0, FF, 25, B4, 61, 47, 00, 8B, C0, FF, 25, F4, 61, 47, 00, 8B, C0, FF, 25, B0, 61, 47, 00, 8B, C0, FF, 25...
 
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Entropy:
6.9292

Developed / compiled with:
Microsoft Visual C++

Code size:
828 KB (847,872 bytes)

The file hair-stylist.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

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