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cheatengine63.exe

Cheat Engine

The application cheatengine63.exe, “Cheat Engine Setup ” has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 3 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:
Cheat Engine

Product:
Cheat Engine

Description:
Cheat Engine Setup

MD5:
e1261da29619f3e9b5749ffdebc72bdf

SHA-1:
ba8f3a75653a1385935cd840cbf9313ca6cefd1b

SHA-256:
d05600feb9d71ff6d06e734853a76591492e78ebd9b207059d0d056a1738d07e

Scanner detections:
3 / 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:
4/27/2024 12:19:06 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

AVG
OpenCandy
2015.0.3389

Dr.Web
Adware.OpenCandy.4
9.0.1.0219

ESET NOD32
Win32/OpenCandy
8.10176

File size:
8.1 MB (8,520,771 bytes)

Product version:
6.3.0.4

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
Inno Setup

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\cheatengine63.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):
196608:TiyptluRywkkPL5RgiT5zniBs6+GPKSjYOFmrs7:T9DluIw5PLMGuR+UKQYOFmrs7

Entry address:
0xA5F8

Entry point:
55, 8B, EC, 83, C4, C4, 53, 56, 57, 33, C0, 89, 45, F0, 89, 45, DC, E8, CE, 8A, FF, FF, E8, D5, 9C, FF, FF, E8, 64, 9F, FF, FF, E8, 07, A0, FF, FF, E8, A6, BF, FF, FF, E8, 11, E9, FF, FF, E8, 78, EA, FF, FF, 33, C0, 55, 68, C9, AC, 40, 00, 64, FF, 30, 64, 89, 20, 33, D2, 55, 68, 92, AC, 40, 00, 64, FF, 32, 64, 89, 22, A1, 14, C0, 40, 00, E8, 26, F5, FF, FF, E8, 11, F1, FF, FF, 80, 3D, 34, B2, 40, 00, 00, 74, 0C, E8, 23, F6, FF, FF, 33, C0, E8, C4, 97, FF, FF, 8D, 55, F0, 33, C0, E8, B6, C5, FF, FF, 8B, 55...
 
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Packer / compiler:
Inno Setup v5.x - Installer Maker

Code size:
39.5 KB (40,448 bytes)

The file cheatengine63.exe has been seen being distributed by the following 2 URLs.

http://infavsoft.com/.../CheatEngine63.exe

http://cheat-engine.soft32.com/get/file/id/.../?rel=center

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