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sea-bubbles.exe

The application sea-bubbles.exe has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 4 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the Inno Setup installer, however the file is not signed with an authenticode signature from a trusted source. The setup program uses the InstallCore engine which may bundle additional software offers including toolbars and browser extensions. The file has been seen being downloaded from installerlaunch-gn2.com.
MD5:
a26f6a7c52d08840fddab33f9b16f513

SHA-1:
9e74eb028ea8e9dfc2ca8a32a2a332cd06933457

SHA-256:
a14e4e69c2bd3b2671597ca649b34567f276a07601042f5f4759d57d6e3db016

Scanner detections:
4 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

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

Analysis date:
12/26/2024 6:40:20 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

ESET NOD32
Win32/InstallCore.CH potentially unwanted application
6.3

F-Prot
W32/InstallCore.R.gen
4.6.5.141

F-Secure
Variant.Strictor.70110
5.15.96

Reason Heuristics
PUP.InstallCore.ENG (M)
16.8.6.9

File size:
703.6 KB (720,496 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
Inno Setup

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\sea-bubbles.exe

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
6/20/1992 1:22:17 AM

OS version:
1.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.25

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:byMJfsG7VPvG4Sz76/nn8Pjvg79KQjMaAzqS1z5bGeJZH/lHJMZJn0vMC03BC8D0:byMJfsSVnG4Sz76f0jvgxKcMfzHzFGiX

Entry address:
0x98CC

Entry point:
55, 8B, EC, 83, C4, CC, 53, 56, 57, 33, C0, 89, 45, F0, 89, 45, DC, E8, FA, 97, FF, FF, E8, 01, AA, FF, FF, E8, 2C, CC, FF, FF, E8, 73, CC, FF, FF, E8, 0A, F3, FF, FF, E8, 71, F4, FF, FF, 33, C0, 55, 68, 76, 9F, 40, 00, 64, FF, 30, 64, 89, 20, 33, D2, 55, 68, 2C, 9F, 40, 00, 64, FF, 32, 64, 89, 22, A1, 14, B0, 40, 00, E8, 9B, FE, FF, FF, E8, 26, FA, FF, FF, 8D, 55, F0, 33, C0, E8, E0, D0, FF, FF, 8B, 55, F0, B8, D8, BD, 40, 00, E8, AB, 98, FF, FF, 6A, 02, 6A, 00, 6A, 01, 8B, 0D, D8, BD, 40, 00, B2, 01, B8...
 
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Entropy:
7.8112

Packer / compiler:
Inno Setup v5.x - Installer Maker

Code size:
36 KB (36,864 bytes)

The file sea-bubbles.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

http://installerlaunch-gn2.com/index.php?dl=download.installerlaunch-gn2.com/gn/gn_12436_v2.exe&dn=sea-bubbles.exe&sid=1591-il&pid=1293&browser=chrome&ptrk=md88b8k9ji3qrjfat0j3r7rqk5&SKIP_ALL=false&UNINSTALL=false&DOP=2&typ=http://.../ty.php

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