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minecraft-setup.exe

GOLDEN BANNERS

The application minecraft-setup.exe by GOLDEN BANNERS has been detected as adware by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. The program is a setup application that uses the Tomorrow Software Installer installer. With this installer, users are expecting to download Minecraft but before that occurs they may be presented with additional offers, mostly potentially unwanted software or adware.
Publisher:
Tomorrow Software Installer  (signed by GOLDEN BANNERS)

Product:
Tomorrow Software Installer

Version:
2.0.0.1

MD5:
d3c2f66de6441f89089c75fa233223a7

SHA-1:
0127be9b454bec5d681d5288e2d57635fc96a86e

SHA-256:
4dde00abd09ff6fd0ea3ecce1c2b3821913aaa86100a7377af9ec0f622f966e4

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.

Description:
This is also known as bundleware, or downloadware, which is an downloader designed to simply deliver ad-supported offers in the setup routine of an otherwise legitimate software.

Analysis date:
11/5/2024 10:44:02 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.TomorrowSoftware (M)
17.2.1.10

File size:
875.1 KB (896,072 bytes)

Product version:
2.0.0.1

Copyright:
Copyright (C) 2015

Original file name:
setup.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
Tomorrow Software Installer

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\minecraft-setup.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
GOLDEN BANNERS

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
6/9/2015 5:00:00 PM

Valid to:
6/9/2016 4:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=GOLDEN BANNERS, O=GOLDEN BANNERS, L=San Francisco, S=California, 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:
1C9D6194236D472E93E5D8BC2B85866A

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
6/5/2014 1:21:42 PM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

Entry address:
0xC7A2

Entry point:
E8, 3C, 05, 00, 00, E9, 57, FD, FF, FF, CC, CC, CC, CC, 51, 8D, 4C, 24, 04, 2B, C8, 1B, C0, F7, D0, 23, C8, 8B, C4, 25, 00, F0, FF, FF, 3B, C8, 72, 0A, 8B, C1, 59, 94, 8B, 00, 89, 04, 24, C3, 2D, 00, 10, 00, 00, 85, 00, EB, E9, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 81, EC, 28, 03, 00, 00, A3, 58, 4B, 41, 00, 89, 0D, 54, 4B, 41, 00, 89, 15, 50, 4B, 41, 00, 89, 1D, 4C, 4B, 41, 00, 89, 35, 48, 4B, 41, 00, 89, 3D, 44, 4B, 41, 00, 66, 8C, 15, 70, 4B, 41, 00, 66, 8C, 0D, 64, 4B, 41, 00, 66, 8C, 1D, 40, 4B, 41, 00, 66, 8C, 05, 3C...
 
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Entropy:
7.9551  (probably packed)

Code size:
51.5 KB (52,736 bytes)

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