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palisades-guardian.exe

Fearless Arcade LLC

The application palisades-guardian.exe by Fearless Arcade has been detected as adware by 7 anti-malware scanners. It uses the InstallCore engine which may bundle additional software offers including toolbars and browser extensions. The file has been seen being downloaded from installerlaunch-mtfg2.com.
Publisher:
Fearless Arcade LLC  (signed and verified)

MD5:
d21175d9c77a8a51dde14844b6ed4a4c

SHA-1:
8513180d4ce9db0bf9704443965264f5d0be08ab

SHA-256:
8bda26e2b8e919ad75c6620da840d7c0c1cdf1e872587cf9041e6b1a2fcce47c

Scanner detections:
7 / 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.

Analysis date:
11/2/2024 7:14:56 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Dr.Web
Adware.InstallCore.80
9.0.1.05190

Emsisoft Anti-Malware
Trojan.Generic.15529094
11.5.0.6191

ESET NOD32
Win32/InstallCore.AZ potentially unwanted application
7.0.302.0

F-Prot
W32/InstallCore.S.gen
4.6.5.141

Microsoft Security Essentials
Threat.Undefined
1.219.1546.0

Norman
Trojan.Generic.15529094
02.04.2016 17:35:19

Reason Heuristics
PUP.installCore.Fearless (M)
16.5.13.2

File size:
1.1 MB (1,182,336 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\palisades-guardian.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Fearless Arcade LLC

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
12/10/2012 12:00:00 AM

Valid to:
1/6/2015 11:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Fearless Arcade LLC, OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O=Fearless Arcade LLC, L=Weston, 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:
0FD5F88065F2AABD1E093909A1080D3B

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):
24576:dBNGdt363bExMEkMH5auB+YnQ6gdWDSCWatDfCf2e:dTGdl63bExCA5auUcQ6lTm

Entry address:
0xD6320

Entry point:
55, 8B, EC, 83, C4, F0, B8, 2C, 02, 41, 00, E8, 0D, D8, FF, FF, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00...
 
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Entropy:
6.7105

Developed / compiled with:
Microsoft Visual C++

Code size:
869.5 KB (890,368 bytes)

The file palisades-guardian.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

http://installerlaunch-mtfg2.com/index.php?dl=download.installerlaunch-mtfg2.com/mtfg_5638.exe&dn=palisades-guardian.exe&sid=4721-v1&pid=1285&browser=chrome&ptrk=6ieurc91mv08p6iqe506udn2q5&SKIP_ALL=false&UNINSTALL=false&DOP=2&typ=http://.../ty.php

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