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halo.exe

Game Awesome LLC

The application halo.exe by Game Awesome has been detected as a potentially unwanted program 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-ggh1.com.
Publisher:
Game Awesome LLC  (signed and verified)

MD5:
c3db3818f41f6f4d3e87e77675d3a1a4

SHA-1:
ea3cf2b25d1bbfa1af3e2debe5e6b4cf560863cf

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

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:
11/30/2024 10:21:10 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.installCore (M)
17.3.4.13

File size:
1 MB (1,070,720 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Common path:
C:\Documents and Settings\{user}\My documents\downloads\halo.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Game Awesome LLC

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
12/9/2011 7:00:00 PM

Valid to:
12/9/2012 6:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Game Awesome LLC, OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O=Game Awesome 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:
2BFE1D3B568D4268C1DAFCB3A2540606

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

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.25

Entry address:
0xC1CC9

Entry point:
55, 8B, EC, 83, C4, F0, B8, A1, E1, 48, 00, E8, E4, E6, FF, FF, 33, AF, 53, E9, 00, DD, 84, 7F, B3, DF, 17, B0, F9, D5, F2, 60, 8C, B9, CA, 9E, 8B, B9, E1, 90, 80, A0, 7B, 82, 9D, 80, 2D, 75, 0F, C4, 8E, 7B, 87, 56, 02, 9C, 58, 85, 97, 21, B5, DE, 3B, 86, 0A, 1A, BA, 6D, 61, CC, 4C, 42, 61, 92, A1, 82, 55, C7, BC, D1, 38, 21, FD, 3C, CB, 9F, 35, 68, 27, BC, 9D, 8E, 4F, D3, 18, 71, B2, 0D, 0B, BA, B4, 68, B0, 6C, 8B, A3, C6, 4F, 25, 0D, E9, 92, DD, 90, 05, F8, 31, 8D, 9F, 53, B1, 38, 05, 23, F9, 9D, 75, 9D...
 
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Entropy:
6.7532

Developed / compiled with:
Microsoft Visual C++

Code size:
786.5 KB (805,376 bytes)

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

http://installerlaunch-ggh1.com/.../ggah-ic-5.6.exe&dn=halo.exe&sid=1579-KMG-5.6&pid=ggah-ic-5.6&browser=ch&ptrk=ld1afh36u9jnn0aj3kp8jraoq0

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