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cake-factory.exe

The application cake-factory.exe has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 3 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-gn1.com.
MD5:
5535b729a2a540720a554d56633180ab

SHA-1:
16faf868064ff7454e1ea16398ba92b7327ec2cb

SHA-256:
95bb34d8695fc00485bb92d3be49ce42b04b3c1887460aa997515f9d30ec2029

Scanner detections:
3 / 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:
4/16/2024 11:07:53 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

ESET NOD32
Win32/InstallCore.AU potentially unwanted application
8.0.319.0

F-Prot
W32/InstallCore.P.gen
4.6.5.141

Reason Heuristics
PUP.FusionCore.ICDP (L)
16.12.5.1

File size:
1 MB (1,100,640 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\cake-factory.exe

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
6/19/1992 5:22:17 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.25

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:gloja8US0st3DxEaNA/sFdV+rrO75Y3Xw5B9/QNmzdpVk:crPp2xEOBdV+vO75D9Imzd

Entry address:
0xCAB50

Entry point:
55, 8B, EC, 83, C4, F0, B8, E4, 1D, 40, 00, E8, 84, DA, FF, FF, FF, CC, 83, 44, 24, 04, F8, E9, 95, 4E, 00, 00, 83, 44, 24, 04, F8, E9, B3, 4E, 00, 00, 83, 44, 24, 04, F8, E9, BD, 4E, 00, 00, CC, 69, 11, 40, 00, 73, 11, 40, 00, 7D, 11, 40, 00, 01, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, C0, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 46, 88, 11, 40, 00, 08, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 12, 40, 00, 94, 11, 40, 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, 12, 40...
 
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Entropy:
6.9556

Developed / compiled with:
Microsoft Visual C++

Code size:
828 KB (847,872 bytes)

The file cake-factory.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

http://installerlaunch-gn1.com/.../PlayPickle-iCorev2.exe&dn=cake-factory.exe&sid=4721-ISM&pid=1045&browser=fx&ptrk=3p94sonkhnlogol7s5q6sn56q0

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