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sonic-the-hedgehog.exe

Play Turtle, LLC

The application sonic-the-hedgehog.exe by Play Turtle has been detected as adware by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. This is a setup program which is used to install the application. The file has been seen being downloaded from installerlaunch-pt1.com.
Publisher:
Play Turtle, LLC  (signed and verified)

MD5:
d7d20b701da5e257ad35a942ff3e87b7

SHA-1:
b7dd0b8be337c4262ca930eb2e6300221edb70d0

SHA-256:
24383278d410db3ca8ab2dae3101d898c90d1206aa7fa663611b230ba10342eb

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.

Analysis date:
2/24/2025 11:09:52 PM UTC  (a few moments ago)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.EpicPlay (M)
16.8.2.21

File size:
614.6 KB (629,376 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\sonic-the-hedgehog.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Play Turtle, LLC

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
12/9/2012 7:00:00 PM

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

Subject:
CN="Play Turtle, LLC", OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O="Play Turtle, LLC", L=Plantation, 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:
5B14229E477C93B843C75DB94F3318D0

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):
12288:mZILiizvEq9iEZanhtyEP7ej8SfpTWQkYNTjueL/gA7BDvwAc7A9:myLvz58Ech1P7eoSftWvYVuwIIDos9

Entry address:
0x131F60

Entry point:
60, BE, 00, 30, 4A, 00, 8D, BE, 00, E0, F5, FF, C7, 87, 10, 47, 0E, 00, C8, 92, AC, 24, 57, 83, CD, FF, EB, 0E, 90, 90, 90, 90, 8A, 06, 46, 88, 07, 47, 01, DB, 75, 07, 8B, 1E, 83, EE, FC, 11, DB, 72, ED, B8, 01, 00, 00, 00, 01, DB, 75, 07, 8B, 1E, 83, EE, FC, 11, DB, 11, C0, 01, DB, 73, 0B, 75, 28, 8B, 1E, 83, EE, FC, 11, DB, 72, 1F, 48, 01, DB, 75, 07, 8B, 1E, 83, EE, FC, 11, DB, 11, C0, EB, D4, 01, DB, 75, 07, 8B, 1E, 83, EE, FC, 11, DB, 11, C9, EB, 52, 31, C9, 83, E8, 03, 72, 11, C1, E0, 08, 8A, 06, 46...
 
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Entropy:
7.8596

Packer / compiler:
UPX v0.89.6 - v1.02 / v1.05 -v1.22 (Delphi) stub

Code size:
576 KB (589,824 bytes)

The file sonic-the-hedgehog.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

http://installerlaunch-pt1.com/index.php?dl=download.installerlaunch-pt1.com/pp_7126.exe&dn=sonic-the-hedgehog.exe&sid=4721-ISM-v1&pid=1277&browser=chrome&ptrk=s07lp10a3ibdb9ceqlal1o82o1&SKIP_ALL=false&UNINSTALL=false&DOP=2&typ=http://.../ty.php

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