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march-madness.exe

Play Turtle, LLC

The application march-madness.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. This is a setup program which is used to install the application. The file has been seen being downloaded from installerlaunch-pp1.com.
Publisher:
Play Turtle, LLC  (signed and verified)

MD5:
98aabc24750310c2eb19275468ff612f

SHA-1:
5351dcb414110e6d09ff6c94964d8a8041f18a1f

SHA-256:
0f94ad02f50ea218ade2805a8ab619f0f26d39e35ec1a2e025aa1188f0391bc6

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:
11/24/2024 2:44:53 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.EpicPlay.PlayTurt (M)
16.5.11.6

File size:
521.1 KB (533,632 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\march-madness.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Play Turtle, LLC

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

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

Valid to:
12/9/2012 6:59:59 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 6:22:17 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.25

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:yUjvK/Y9bVy6eL1TptQydOdEnQdFg45pdnXvLf0vHUkl4nirzYvVj:1rVReLrOdEmC2970v0kl4ngON

Entry address:
0x106F10

Entry point:
60, BE, 00, 00, 49, 00, 8D, BE, 00, 10, F7, FF, C7, 87, 10, 77, 0C, 00, 47, 72, 3B, 23, 57, 83, CD, FF, EB, 0E, 90, 90, 90, 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...
 
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Entropy:
7.8482

Packer / compiler:
UPX v0.89.6 - v1.02 / v1.05 -v1.22 (Delphi) stub

Code size:
480 KB (491,520 bytes)

The file march-madness.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

http://installerlaunch-pp1.com/.../pp-icore-5.2.exe&dn=march-madness.exe&sid=1591&pid=pp-ic-b&browser=ch&ptrk=op96mq1a9aunrquqe6aabletu3

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