ancient-jewels.exe

Sweet Gamer LLC

The application ancient-jewels.exe by Sweet Gamer has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 7 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the Inno Setup installer. 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.
Publisher:
Sweet Gamer LLC  (signed and verified)

MD5:
db5eb4df41533f8f85962bfaf0749d0b

SHA-1:
7255478a99d92434f8d06c04e61beca3d7641b02

SHA-256:
d1c21fef808dfbd6dc3a029760ad68f60c7ad6f44788e86a89271840abc82988

Scanner detections:
7 / 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:
4/23/2024 3:35:46 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

avast!
Win32:InstallCore-GD [PUP]
160518-2

Dr.Web
Adware.InstallCore.133
9.0.1.05190

Emsisoft Anti-Malware
Gen:Variant.Strictor.101483
11.5.0.6191

ESET NOD32
Win32/InstallCore.EI potentially unwanted application
8.0.319.0

Reason Heuristics
PUP.installCore.SweetGam (M)
16.6.20.4

VIPRE Antivirus
Threat.4835495
49574

File size:
965.2 KB (988,384 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
Inno Setup

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\ancient-jewels.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

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

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

Subject:
CN=Sweet Gamer LLC, OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O=Sweet Gamer LLC, L=Sunrise, 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:
0C82FF046C1E5F30CAD52704CD2952EE

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):
24576:tOyMJfssLBvIlpP1v1xEra+1T/QfExHmIi5cl89GsFKeIP:clJfswOpP19fAT4cxGTY88P

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:
7.8288

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

Code size:
36 KB (36,864 bytes)

The file ancient-jewels.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

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