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halo.exe

Play Turtle, LLC

The application halo.exe by Play Turtle has been detected as adware by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. The file has been seen being downloaded from installerlaunch-pp1.com.
Publisher:
Play Turtle, LLC  (signed and verified)

MD5:
95430cae6440c009594efdd9bec2d4da

SHA-1:
06bc71e9ebeb54119fd19abae65d8359522a3d8d

SHA-256:
a64dcd801d11dd63319b92929505afe19d1ecaf9b9ad9456ac1c6456184a4601

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Adware

Note:
Our current pool of anti-malware engines have not currently detected this file, however based on our own detection heuristics we feel that this file is unwanted.

Analysis date:
12/26/2024 8:22:56 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.EpicPlay.PlayTurt (M)
16.5.22.3

File size:
1 MB (1,054,848 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Play Turtle, LLC

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
12/9/2011 6:00:00 PM

Valid to:
12/9/2012 5:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN="Play Turtle, LLC", OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O="Play Turtle, LLC", L=Plantation, 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:
1FBA05C4A16403C30CAF42A3523B1862

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):
24576:f8HG2L0ePnGns2jbsCs8H6GoPUJItkzVnyp5BAab:f8HG2AePGsebx3HcdtkzVnwN

Entry address:
0xC1660

Entry point:
55, 8B, EC, 83, C4, F0, B8, 64, A2, 41, 00, E8, 0A, E2, FF, FF, 7C, 24, 0C, 00, 75, B1, 8D, 4C, 24, 0C, 8B, 54, 24, 08, 8B, 44, 24, 04, E8, 25, FD, FF, FF, 8B, 04, 24, 33, D2, 89, 10, E9, 90, 00, 00, 00, 8D, 4C, 24, 04, 8B, D7, 8B, C6, E8, 94, FC, FF, FF, 83, 7C, 24, 04, 00, 74, 34, 8D, 4C, 24, 0C, 8D, 54, 24, 04, 8B, C5, E8, 16, FB, FF, FF, 83, 7C, 24, 0C, 00, 0F, 85, 66, FF, FF, FF, 8D, 4C, 24, 0C, 8B, 54, 24, 08, 8B, 44, 24, 04, E8, DA, FC, FF, FF, 8B, 04, 24, 33, D2, 89, 10, EB, 48, 8B, 6B, 08, 3B, F5...
 
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Entropy:
6.9398

Developed / compiled with:
Microsoft Visual C++

Code size:
788 KB (806,912 bytes)

The file halo.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

http://installerlaunch-pp1.com/.../pp-ic-5.6b.exe&dn=halo.exe&sid=4081-WEP-5.6b&pid=pp-ic-5.6b&browser=ch&ptrk=42d0itp0s8s6576cfcnia0gmi3

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