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limewiresetup.exe

Pinball Corporation.

This is a component for the Pinball ad-supported platform which may deliver advertisemenst to the web browser in the form of banner and text ads. The application limewiresetup.exe by Pinball has been detected as adware by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. This is a self-extracting archive and installer and has been known to bundle potentially unwanted software. The file has been seen being downloaded from origin-ics.hotbar.com.
Publisher:
Pinball Corporation.  (signed and verified)

Description:
Installer

Version:
2.0.199.0

MD5:
ae925a5eb58dfc2cf06ac17ea3e0db09

SHA-1:
da59a0d2799e4ca481fa0fc453c6ff855a302836

SHA-256:
3099ffcf54dff92babc94bb24268050b03e21928ed63debc2cf62679765ed401

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:
12/27/2024 10:21:07 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Pinball.PinballCorporation.Installer (M)
16.2.21.3

File size:
202.1 KB (206,928 bytes)

Product version:
2.0.199.0

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
English (United States)

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Pinball Corporation.

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
5/18/2009 5:00:00 PM

Valid to:
5/19/2011 4:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Pinball Corporation., OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O=Pinball Corporation., L=Bellevue, S=Washington, C=US

Issuer:
CN=VeriSign Class 3 Code Signing 2004 CA, OU=Terms of use at https://www.verisign.com/rpa (c)04, OU=VeriSign Trust Network, O="VeriSign, Inc.", C=US

Serial number:
4FEAB55730A755A456FE6C18A4791C1A

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
12/18/2010 7:45:48 PM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
6144:/2f7xz5jBEciLzLsOu+/ifpY5MY5FjV0FYtOsN/Vmr8qR:/ul9lE/LsANz5jXtOsN/I9R

Entry address:
0x738B0

Entry point:
60, BE, 00, 40, 44, 00, 8D, BE, 00, D0, FB, FF, 57, EB, 0B, 90, 8A, 06, 46, 88, 07, 47, 01, DB, 75, 07, 8B, 1E, 83, EE, FC, 11, DB, 72, ED, B8, 01, 00, 00, 00, 01, DB, 75, 07, 8B, 1E, 83, EE, FC, 11, DB, 11, C0, 01, DB, 73, 0B, 75, 28, 8B, 1E, 83, EE, FC, 11, DB, 72, 1F, 48, 01, DB, 75, 07, 8B, 1E, 83, EE, FC, 11, DB, 11, C0, EB, D4, 01, DB, 75, 07, 8B, 1E, 83, EE, FC, 11, DB, 11, C9, EB, 52, 31, C9, 83, E8, 03, 72, 11, C1, E0, 08, 8A, 06, 46, 83, F0, FF, 74, 75, D1, F8, 89, C5, EB, 0B, 01, DB, 75, 07, 8B...
 
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Entropy:
7.8993

Packer / compiler:
UPX v0.89.6 - v1.02 / v1.05 -v1.24

Code size:
192 KB (196,608 bytes)

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

http://origin-ics.hotbar.com/IC/GPLHBLite28/10992/0/.../LimeWireSetup.exe

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