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minecraft-setup.exe

Power Play Media

The application minecraft-setup.exe by Power Play Media has been detected as adware by 21 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the Tomorrow Software Installer installer. This program installs potentially unwanted software on your PC at the same time as the software you are trying to install, without adequate consent. 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:
Power Play Media  (signed and verified)

Product:
Power Play Media

Version:
6.5.8.5004

MD5:
3498b3127e22ca445918ba07b6266488

SHA-1:
cec0b538f4086ec859ba6ce9047ec7065289f218

SHA-256:
2e2a97a83d467c7ea728232bb235cf7198fa682e84301e0c871dee5709866b4c

Scanner detections:
21 / 68

Status:
Adware

Explanation:
Bundles additional software, mostly toolbars and other potentially unwanted applications using the Vittalia monitization installer.

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:
12/26/2024 12:27:39 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler.DownloadAdmin.4
358

Agnitum Outpost
Riskware.Agent
7.1.1

AhnLab V3 Security
Trojan/Win32.Bagsu
2015.12.03

avast!
Win32:Trojan-gen
2014.9-160211

AVG
Generic36
2017.0.2836

Bitdefender
Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler.DownloadAdmin.4
1.0.20.210

Bkav FE
W32.HfsAdware
1.3.0.7383

Comodo Security
Application.Win32.DownloadAdmin.RP
23690

Dr.Web
Trojan.Vittalia.1361
9.0.1.042

ESET NOD32
Win32/DownloadAdmin.P potentially unwanted (variant)
10.12659

Fortinet FortiGate
Riskware/DownloadAdmin
2/11/2016

F-Secure
Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler
11.2016-11-02_5

G Data
Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler.DownloadAdmin
16.2.25

IKARUS anti.virus
PUA.Win32.Dowadmin
t3scan.1.9.5.0

K7 AntiVirus
Adware
13.212.18027

McAfee
Artemis!14DC059F4AAC
5600.6492

MicroWorld eScan
Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler.DownloadAdmin.4
17.0.0.126

Panda Antivirus
Generic Suspicious
16.02.11.12

Reason Heuristics
PUP.TomorrowSoftware.PowerPlayMedia.Bundler (M)
16.2.11.12

Rising Antivirus
PE:Adware.DownloadAdmin!1.A243 [F]
23.00.65.16209

VIPRE Antivirus
Trojan.Win32.Generic
45570

File size:
870.6 KB (891,496 bytes)

Product version:
6.5.8.5004

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}\appdata\local\microsoft\windows\temporary internet files\content.ie5\{random}\minecraft-setup.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Power Play Media

Authority:
GoDaddy.com, Inc.

Valid from:
11/20/2015 2:50:38 PM

Valid to:
10/13/2016 4:17:38 PM

Subject:
CN=Power Play Media, O=Power Play Media, L=San Francisco, S=California, C=US

Issuer:
CN=Go Daddy Secure Certificate Authority - G2, OU=http://certs.godaddy.com/repository/, O="GoDaddy.com, Inc.", L=Scottsdale, S=Arizona, C=US

Serial number:
6022A4F3CF348BA8

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
11/5/2014 4:45:43 PM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:9YNuZNe5vj3osB7frRkwrkpYrPU02OJTRMCPKx+FVBhC+Uu+XNUeqTrsIBVy:eNXl7f91kpsJTOmK0FNVJQNxqUoVy

Entry address:
0x2795

Entry point:
E8, 76, B1, 00, 00, E9, 74, AA, 00, 00, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 56, 8B, 75, 08, 33, C0, EB, 0F, 85, C0, 75, 10, 8B, 0E, 85, C9, 74, 02, FF, D1, 83, C6, 04, 3B, 75, 0C, 72, EC, 5E, 5D, C3, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, FF, 25, 90, 48, 41, 00, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, 53, 55, 56, 8B, 74, 24, 10, 57, 6A, 01, 6A, 00, 56, E8, 4E, 47, 00, 00, 83, C4, 0C, FF, 15, 88, F0, 40, 00, 8B, C8, C1, E9, 08, 33, FF, 0F, B6, D8, 0F, B6, E9, 3D, 00, 00, 00, 80, 73, 05, C1, E8, 10, 8B, F8, 53...
 
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Entropy:
7.9687  (probably packed)

Code size:
52.5 KB (53,760 bytes)

The file minecraft-setup.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

http://cdn1.homepagewire.com/dl-pure/.../?bc=1171826&checksum=107457&cb=816512759

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