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cheatengine56.exe

Cheat Engine 5.6

Dark Byte

The application cheatengine56.exe, “Cheat Engine 5.6 Setup ” has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 15 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 installer uses the OpenCandy monitzation platform which will donwload and install offers in the setup for potentially unwanted software including ad/search-supported toolbars.
Publisher:
Dark Byte

Product:
Cheat Engine 5.6

Description:
Cheat Engine 5.6 Setup

MD5:
0a0836b906978df5e0e0f0c1730d4c2e

SHA-1:
d3534aacb06c90143ccbaba2b892d3037fe567ec

Scanner detections:
15 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Explanation:
Packages the OpenCandy software bundler that offers to install additional software and may include web browser add-ons and toolbars which display advertising (based on publisher settings and geo context).

Analysis date:
4/25/2024 10:05:53 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Agnitum Outpost
HackTool.CheatEngine
7.1.1

Avira AntiVirus
Adware/OpenCandy.A.27
7.11.194.188

avast!
Win32:Malware-gen
2014.9-141224

Baidu Antivirus
Hacktool.Win32.SystemCall
4.0.3.141224

ESET NOD32
Win32/OpenCandy
8.10864

G Data
Win32.Trojan.Agent.HG370A
14.12.24

IKARUS anti.virus
Trojan.Win32.Agent
t3scan.1.8.5.0

K7 AntiVirus
Trojan
13.186.14309

McAfee
Artemis!0A0836B90697
5600.6907

NANO AntiVirus
Trojan.Win32.Dynamer.krntl
0.28.6.63850

Norman
Obfuscated_I
11.20141224

Rising Antivirus
PE:Trojan.Win32.Generic.12AEABA1!313437089
23.00.65.141222

Sophos
OpenCandy
4.98

Vba32 AntiVirus
TrojanPSW.Agent
3.12.26.3

VIPRE Antivirus
Trojan.Win32.Generic
35642

File size:
4.1 MB (4,267,210 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
Inno Setup

Language:
Language Neutral

Common path:
C:\Documents and Settings\{user}\Local settings\temp\cheatengine56.exe

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

OS version:
1.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.25

CTPH (ssdeep):
98304:eVHv+3t1H96h+kehIkbxu9cxs0O46uKnb1dstVuBLFpm9c:wP+3IhtehZk1dsnuBLFc9c

Entry address:
0x9B24

Entry point:
55, 8B, EC, 83, C4, C4, 53, 56, 57, 33, C0, 89, 45, F0, 89, 45, DC, E8, A2, 95, FF, FF, E8, A9, A7, FF, FF, E8, D4, C9, FF, FF, E8, 1B, CA, FF, FF, E8, 0E, F3, FF, FF, E8, 75, F4, FF, FF, 33, C0, 55, 68, DB, A1, 40, 00, 64, FF, 30, 64, 89, 20, 33, D2, 55, 68, A4, A1, 40, 00, 64, FF, 32, 64, 89, 22, A1, 14, C0, 40, 00, E8, 9B, FE, FF, FF, E8, 02, FA, FF, FF, 8D, 55, F0, 33, C0, E8, 04, D0, FF, FF, 8B, 55, F0, B8, EC, CD, 40, 00, E8, 53, 96, FF, FF, 6A, 02, 6A, 00, 6A, 01, 8B, 0D, EC, CD, 40, 00, B2, 01, B8...
 
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Entropy:
7.9983

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

Code size:
37 KB (37,888 bytes)

The file cheatengine56.exe has been seen being distributed by the following 2 URLs.

http://www.heijnen1.demon.nl/CheatEngine56.exe

http://mirror3.cheatengine.org/.../CheatEngine56.exe

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