» minecraft_forge_setup.exe
Overview
Analysis
File Details

minecraft_forge_setup.exe

Application

Quality Path (Fried Cookie Ltd.)

The Fried Cookie installer utilizes the InstallCore download manager which may bundle additional offers for various ad-supported toolbars, extensions and utilities. The application minecraft_forge_setup.exe, “Application Setup ” by Quality Path (Fried Cookie) 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 installCore installer. The setup program uses the InstallCore engine which may bundle additional software offers including toolbars and browser extensions. 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.

File name:

Publisher:

Web (signed by Quality Path (Fried Cookie Ltd.))

Product:

Application

Description:

Application Setup

Version:

4.3.3.4

MD5:

c556f80fec5f9281d9b266a56a86db7f

SHA-1:

e814d21e7337d448bccf35610b7dc65a87d55635

SHA-256:

3f44cac39acd7d28b144e5f5cfe9f4571d8d6d1f0052bc5d607b11628feac559

Scanner detections:

1 / 68

Status:

Adware

Explanation:

Uses the InstallCore download manager to install additional potentially unwanted software which may include extensions such as DealPly and various toolbars.

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:

12/27/2024 6:19:20 AM UTC (today)

Scan engine

Detection

Engine version

Reason Heuristics

PUP.InstallCore.FC (M)

16.12.4.10

File size:

909.1 KB (930,912 bytes)

Product version:

5.2.5

File type:

Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:

installCore (using Inno Setup)

Language:

Language Neutral

Common path:

C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\temp\{random}.tmp\minecraft_forge_setup.exe

Digital Signature

Signed by:

Quality Path (Fried Cookie Ltd.)

Authority:

GlobalSign nv-sa

Valid from:

12/17/2015 6:53:12 AM

Valid to:

6/22/2016 11:17:14 AM

Subject:

CN=Quality Path (Fried Cookie Ltd.), O=Quality Path (Fried Cookie Ltd.), L=Tel Aviv, C=IL

Issuer:

CN=GlobalSign CodeSigning CA - SHA256 - G2, O=GlobalSign nv-sa, C=BE

Serial number:

112154D129DA4E1D497857D911B1EAFABF5F

File PE Metadata

Compilation timestamp:

6/19/1992 6:22:17 PM

OS version:

1.0

OS bitness:

Win32

Subsystem:

Windows GUI

Linker version:

2.25

CTPH (ssdeep):

24576:1q6QclHjthJBMvn8UGqMmWEoZ1KKI4bibV3GH:1n9lHjth/Mv8tmZoZ1KKI4bUVWH

Entry address:

0x9C40

Entry point:

55, 8B, EC, 83, C4, C4, 53, 56, 57, 33, C0, 89, 45, F0, 89, 45, DC, E8, 86, 94, FF, FF, E8, 8D, A6, FF, FF, E8, 1C, A9, FF, FF, E8, 53, C9, FF, FF, E8, 9A, C9, FF, FF, E8, C9, F2, FF, FF, E8, 30, F4, FF, FF, 33, C0, 55, 68, FC, A2, 40, 00, 64, FF, 30, 64, 89, 20, 33, D2, 55, 68, C5, A2, 40, 00, 64, FF, 32, 64, 89, 22, A1, 14, C0, 40, 00, E8, 96, FE, FF, FF, E8, C9, FA, FF, FF, 8D, 55, F0, 33, C0, E8, 83, CF, FF, FF, 8B, 55, F0, B8, 24, CE, 40, 00, E8, 32, 95, FF, FF, 6A, 02, 6A, 00, 6A, 01, 8B, 0D, 24, CE... 
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Entropy:

7.9360

Packer / compiler:

Inno Setup v5.x - Installer Maker

Code size:

37 KB (37,888 bytes)

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